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Follas Novas: Versos en Gallego

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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.

IV

Diredes d’estos versos, y é verdade,

Que tên estrana insólita armonía,

Que n’eles as ideas brilan pálidas

Cal errantes muxícas

Qu’estalan por instantes

Que desparecen xiña,

Que s’asomellan â parruma incerta

Que voltexa n’o fondo d’as curtiñas,

Y ó susurro monótono d’os pinos

D’a veira-mar bravía.

Eu direivos tan sô, qu’os meus cantares

Así sân en confuso d’alma miña,

Como sai d’as profundas carballeiras

Ô comezar d’o dia,

Romor que non se sabe

S’é rebuldar d’as brisas,

Si son beixos d’as frores,

S’agrestes, misteirosas armonías

Que n’este mundo triste

O camiño d’o ceu buscan perdidas.