Chilean poet Hector Ahumada will read his poetry
at Utah Arts Festival / Big Mouth Stage.
June 24th. 2011 / 4 PM /
At the same stage: Richard Weekly, Charles Waugh,
Sara Caldiero, Diane Fouts, Brenda Sue Cowley,
& Poetry Slam Round 2.
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“Poetry: impossible pain and joy. A poignant touch, nostalgia. Such is Provencal and English poetry.
A joy which by reason of its unmixed purity hurts, pain which by reason of its unmixed purity brings peace.” Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace.
Happy End of the year 2010 to all poets of the world.
Special thanks, to Tomas Oyarzun and family.
Hector Ahumada
All things and situations in the world are subject to change and transformation, and so their images.
Capitalism is not an exception. H.A.
…the metaphysics which, in the form of Western “logic” and “grammar,” early took possesion of the interpretation of language. Today we can but begin to surmise what lies hidden in the process. The freeing of language from “grammar,” and placing it in a more original and essential framework, is reserved for thought and poetry. “Letter on Humanism” Heidegger
“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars – mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is “mere”. I too see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? …What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not harm to the mystery to know a little more about it.
For far more marvellous is the truth than any artist of the past imagined it.
Why do the poets of the present not speak of it?” Richard Feynman
The outer ecology is being destroyed because the inner ecology has been destroyed.
When man is no longer in harmony and balance with his/her self, or blindly guided by comercial gain, that man destroy Nature.
When Nature is destroyed, then mankind is destroyed.
It is simple, Nature affects mankind and mankind affects Nature.
It is a vicious circle in which the basic problem is mankind.
Only when you are at peace inside, serene within your own nature, then you are able to understand the interconnection between Nature and mankind.
To fight with Nature is to fight with ourselves, to hurt Nature is to hurt ourselves, we are part of Nature.
We need to relearn to come closer to: the trees and plants, soil and rocks, water and all the lives within it.
The joy comes when we live in harmony with Nature, not against It.
If we live in harmony with Nature our love increases and matures, and we go with the flow of Nature avoiding Its destruction.
The plane landed at the airport of Santiago, Chile, March 2010.
My mind, my body, and my heart are functioning with intense harmony.
I am experiencing something far superior than pleasure and happiness.
It is joy, my joy has something of pleasure, something of happiness, and something that I can not explain.
I feel great compassion and love for every human being around me.
I have return to the place that has my roots, and although I have grown up deep within myself in other countries, I know that my roots are in Chile.
Revolution is an spiritual phenomenon…
Hector Ahumada, latest poems, written after a trip to Chile, March, April 2010.
Saturday 26 June 2010 – 5:30 – 6:00 p.m. “Big Mouth Cafe Stage”
October 1st & 2nd / 2009
Poetry Readings at Recapture Lodge & Sand Island.
Enjoy the people & landscape of Bluff.