Today

Luciano Maldonado Moreno 1955 (Villaquejida (León))



  Today

Only today.
Unrepeatable.
All today, which you already intuited,
that you waste hour by hour,
that you leave blank page
by laziness and self-deception
and fill it out another day.

However,
today is always the day.
Now, without further delay,
without turning your back on life,
to open the hand with faith,
tighten the hug,
abandon yourself to emotions,
be satiated with love and peace.

Without today, tomorrow is a chimera.
Tomorrow is always the trap,
mirror of more tomorrows.
The ruse well alert
that takes you to another tomorrow,
to no, to never, to never.

About this poem

Need to take advantage of the present, without further delay for an uncertain future.

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Written on January 10, 2022

Submitted by lucmaldonado on December 22, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AXABXXA BAAXXXXX XXXXXB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 574
Words 117
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 8, 6

Luciano Maldonado Moreno

Spanish Poet. Villaquejida (León), 1955. Graduated in Hispanic Philology at the University of Granada. Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at high schools in Motril (Granada), Onda (Castellón) and Gijón. Currently retired. Author of several articles in the local newspapers Onda, El Puente and in the cultural magazine Ábaco, as well as the novel “La strangeness of your steps” (Zahorí Ediciones. Gijón, 2009). Books of stories: "Come to story" (Editorial Peña Tú. Gijón, 1997) and "Twenty one-way trips without return" (Zahorí Ediciones. Gijón, 2011). Second prize in the V Short Story Contest “Valentín Andrés”, 1996, Grado (Asturias). Also a finalist in the National Short Story Contest "Floral Games of the City of Tobarra" (Albacete), 1999, and in the first "Mes Carolino Literary Contest", 2005, Commonwealth of La Vera (Cáceres). Second prize in the “III Santiago el Verde Literary Contest”, 2007. Finalist in the “I Literary Contest and Montañero Cuentamontes” (2008). Second prize in the VI “Villa de Cárcar” Short Story Contest (Navarra), 2009. Finalist in the “VI International Short Story Contest La Lectora Impatiente” (2009), in “II Literary Contest and Montañero Cuentamontes” (2009) and in IV Prize for Brief Narration UNED de Mérida (2016). First Prize for Castillo de Cortegana Poetry, 2017. Finalist in the FAAM XXX Anniversary Short Story Contest, 2017. Finalist in the Max Aub International Short Story Contest, 2019. Finalist in the II Encinas Reales Short Story Contest, 2021. Scriptwriter and director of the short films “Snake Stream” (2020) and “No Water... Please” (2020). more…

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