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Sofia has a selection of poems available.
To order the book pleasecontact: sofia@sofiabuchuck.com


The orange tree

There is a river under this orange tree,

The tree of my childhood has stars on its crown,

And golden fishes at the base of its trunk,

I swing in blue waters,

To save the dreams of my beloved friends.

My orange tree has blossoming in golden white,

From the teenagers of my first love,

It was summer with wild birds and everything was fine.

He has sleep under that tree, wishing to kiss my fired lips,

Burning my heart I knew, the orange tree kept his last words of love.

A heart was drawn by him with the trees sap,

In dreams I write over and over my lover’s name.

My orange tree sings songs of war,

From memories of the disappear,

And keeps the words once left of love.

Since I was only a girl of FIVE,

 I claimed to the top, to see the smallest houses made of wood,

When I reached twelve I sang from my heart,

I say good bye to the orange tree,

Never thinking I would not return.

After fifteen year’s of black nights and rain,

My orange tree has oranges in blue,

They keep my first love’s breath,

I sleep tonight under its trunk,

Listening the river of my love’s voice.

I travel in blue waters to my orange tree,

I see orange fishes flying up high

Reaching the flowers on my golden tree,

I plant its orange seeds carefully in the soil of my lover’s grave.

I eat the last orange to keep the memories with me forever.

 


Tree of life

The tree,

Standing from its endless roots,

With his immense arms reaching the infinite,

Towards the cosmic universe of my ancestors.

Inter-connected to the divine world of gods and stars.

I see each brunch of the tree as my uncles and unties,

My big sisters and brothers,

On top of them rest smallest brunches,

They are my cousins and friends,

And bigger nephews and nieces.

  

The babies smile from the top of its crown,

They are the smallests leaves,

The newest flowers of the family,

Blossoming in bright blues and oranges,

Hanging from the top of the proud tree of life.

Sometimes I see my father under the rain,

I see him lonely and thoughtful,

Watching in silence to the different generations that run in his entity,

The sky blows soft breeze of peace.

And the tree wishes wise legends to the forthcoming blooms.

 

On the base of the tree trunk,

I see my grand fathers and grandmothers,

For ever embraced, resting inside the womb’s of mother earth,

 I see the purple colour life and death,

Bridging the roots of this tree,

Forever in the vast extended territory of this earth.