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Mexicatl / Poem


Mexicatl / Poem
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Copyright: Luis Fernando Ortega Carmona (drackness) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 868 W: 60 N: 615] (3722)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-09-28
Categories: Artwork
Camera: FujiFilm FinePix Z1
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Drapeau / Flags [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2006-12-08 3:56
Viewed: 414
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Spanish]
Tenochcas:
a long dream of five hundred moons
has had dominated our empire,
the cenzontle left his song
and the shells of sea no longer wake up,
we changed the stone of the sacrifice,
by a church and thousand crossings;
we changed to Quetzalcoatl by a certain Jesus...
to Tonatzin by one such Guadalupe...
and our empire brothers?,
Where are the Cem-Anáhuac?...
Where are our greatness?...
Into the hands of whom our wealth?...
and I do not speak of money brothers,
nor of the stones that to the usurpers
used to call precious......
did not speak to them i speak of our culture...
Everything was destroyed...
the heart of my race let bark
to the shout of a simple fire wood...
tears brothers... blood tears...
that is the unique thing that the Barbarians
have left as treads in ours tonali...
they cleared everything to us...
nor the ashes are...
in the wind goes away our civilization,
while the mother earth is in charge
to swallow the rest of our people...
Death... watch there whom
they blamed to us of natives...
of "sinners"... and assassins...
How many barbarisms have not committed=?...
In how many sins have not fallen?...
How many deaths have left us?...
and even so Tenochcas...
with the destroyed body
we have the pride to maintain to our spirit...
that fighting spirit who always
our town has developed...
cleared all the material to us...
but the Aztec blood that runs
by all our single body
died us clears it already...
and dead...
of what we were going to serve to them?...
and still aside town of the great Tenochtitlán...
we have our dignity...
after five hundred years
we follow with the soul in the fight...
a little dozed by so long dream,
but never ill to continue fighting...
Today brother wakes up...
and you... What delays sister?...
wake up and you take to its descendants
to the end of piramide of the Sun...
from contemplate the splendor
there of which they were other times...
of which they were the times of prosperity fight...
and wealth of this town that nowadays
does not fear to raise the head while it shouts...
and it shouts it, hear all with great force...
"I am Mexícatl, son of the great Tenochtitlán...
and my race is not of pain...
my race is of pride,
I do not have its white God and with beards,
I do not have its great inventions...
but I must and very firm of to
have been born the pride here".
(c)2006-2007 Luis Fernando Ortega Carmona
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Hi Luis,
Great shot.Beautiful Mexico flag and of the colours.Regards.

hAyAti

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  • anton Gold Star Critiquer [C: 365 W: 0 N: 0] (16)
  • [2006-12-08 12:53]
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Fallo todo en esta foto, disculpa mi nacionalismo, pero creo que al publicar una foto de nuestra gloriosa bandera, minimo merece que los colores se aprecien en su plenitud, la calidad de imagen es pesima, para colmo pones un poema a nuestra cultura y bandera mexicana en ¡ingles!, al ser nuestro emblema nacional e identidad prehispanica, merecia estar en español.
Muy mal.

Eh anton!, tranquilo hermano. Me parece que hay que analizar lo que dices!.
La bandera "es" por su pueblo y no "por si misma". Creo que como latinoamericano sabemos que el español es (ya) parte de nuestra identidad, pero con ese criterio tendrian que escribirlo en ese idioma que se hablaba por allí (ya incomprensible para nbosotros por todas sus "x","t" y "l").
Así que Luis: punto por el poema, dos punto por la bandera y su pueblo y resto un punto por no haber escrito el poema en Nahúatl!.
Un abrazo!

Mauro

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