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Follas Novas: Versos en Gallego

Chapter 169: Querom’ire
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A sequence of lyric poems in Galician that blend evocative depictions of misty coastal and rural landscapes with intimate meditations on grief, longing, and domestic life. The voice alternates tender, maternal and elegiac tones with sharper social awareness, addressing scarcity, departure, and cultural memory. Varied forms—short songs, narrative fragments, and longer reflective pieces—use folk rhythms and vivid natural imagery to explore language, belonging, and the persistence of feeling across absence and change.

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¡Querom’ire, querom’ire!

Para donde no-no sey.

Cégam’os ollos a brétema

¿Para dond’ey de coller?

N’acougo c’un-ha inquietude

Que non me deixa vivir,

Quero e non sey o que quero

Qu’é todo igual para min.

Querom’ire, querom’ire,

Din alguns que á morrer van;

¡Ay! queren fuxir d’a morte,

¡Y a morte con eles vay!