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World Poetry Day 2022

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World Poetry Day 2022

The Embassy of India, Bogota, celebrates World Poetry Day with poems of two renowned poets, Rabindranath Tagore from India and José Asunción Silva from Colombia.

Rabindranath Tagore - Gitanjali 35

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake

José Asunción Silva - Suspiro

Si en tus recuerdos ves algún día
Entre la niebla de lo pasado
Surgir la triste memoria mía
Medio borrada ya por los años,
Piensa que fuiste siempre mi anhelo
Y si el recuerdo de amor tan santo
Mueve tu pecho, nubla tu cielo,
Llena de lágrimas tus ojos garzos;
¡Ah, no me busques aquí en la tierra
Donde he vivido, donde he luchado,
Sino en el reino de los sepulcros
Donde se encuentran paz y descanso!