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    Footprints of the Queen Without a Crown
    Footprints of the Queen Without a Crown
    Footprints of the Queen Without a Crown
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    Footprints of the Queen Without a Crown

    By Ricardo Galván Barquín

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    Footprints of the Queen without a Crown, represents itself, the most important poetic work in the incipient literary career of the author. Written among some unique corners of Canada and surrounding areas: British Columbia, Quebec and Ontario, this book has been the greatest display of unrestrained inspiration, admiration and love for life and women, that the poet has embodied through letters and, where metaphors are broken with the solemn chant lost among words. Emerging from a sudden romance within long hours of snowy solitudes, this poetry will achieve, between sounds and cadences, to unfold the reader to a sudden emotional revolution, where there will be no space for logic, and where death does not matter anymore, but inspire and praise to the end, because it is through the language of the soul in which we really understand our existence Love is like the cigarette of the poet, often inspiring and almost always kills, its absence tend to exasperate, you can throw and tread on it, or enjoy it until it fades off
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPalibrio
    Release dateApr 10, 2014
    ISBN9781463369149
    Footprints of the Queen Without a Crown
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    Ricardo Galván Barquín

    Ricardo Galván Barquín ,Guanajuato, México. 1978. Desde su infancia y acostumbrado a la solitaria creatividad liderada por sus ideas, Ricardo fue siempre un gran observador y minucioso perseguidor de la naturaleza, sensibilizado a la vida a través de los pequeños detalles y refugiándose cotidianamente en personajes imaginarios. Apasionadamente entregado en el amor, es en su juventud, donde fascinado por algún amor platónico, descubre detrás de innumerables cartas y bajo la embriagadora influencia del poeta Chileno Pablo Neruda, su vocación literaria. Publicó su primer libro de poemas en 2009, y su primera novela en 2011, seguido de su tercer libro, que después tradujo al inglés, en 2012 y 2014 respectivamente y es en ésta, su quinta publicación, donde se representa un contenido poético más personal y profundo, con un toque que va desde una inocente mirada hasta el roce más sensual. Con diecinueve años en las andanzas literarias, el autor ha logrado una extensa actividad poética. Dícese a sí mismo, influido desde el vientre materno por las sutiles rimas del gran poeta Español Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.

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      Footprints of the Queen Without a Crown - Ricardo Galván Barquín

      Copyright © 2008, 2014 by Ricardo Galván Barquín.

      Written in Canada from March to September, 2002.

      Original language: Spanish.

      Original title: Huellas de una Reina sin Corona (2012) ©

      Twitter: @Ricardo_Barquin

      Translation by the author: Ricardo Galvan Barquin ©

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Rev. date: 08/04/2014

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      Contents

      Prologue

      A Solemn Tribute…

      CHAPTER ONE

      THE FIRST LINES OF LOVE …

      Sunday Moon

      Poem for a lovely girl

      I Like you

      Between the river and spring

      Love

      I Grieve

      The scent of your existence

      With you

      Sublime gesture

      My immediate muse

      CHAPTER TWO

      IRREMEDIABLE NOSTALGIA …

      Missing you

      For who you are

      Where your light lies down

      Yesterday’s rain

      An unforgettable moment

      Awakenings

      At dawn

      The flight of your wings

      Thirteen of May

      The miracle of your eyes

      I’m sick

      Confession

      Nocturne

      If I ever wanted to describe you…

      Your bad mood

      The happiest day of my life

      Missing you this way…

      The voice of your hopes

      My first impression

      Blessed memory

      My love for you

      An unknown crying

      Impatience Sublime

      Dreaming soul

      CHAPTER THREE

      IMPENETRABLE OBLIVION OF SOUL …

      Words in the wind

      The proximity of a kiss

      Humble song

      A spring song

      Sunset memoirs

      Dawns

      The freedom of my words

      The greatest story ever told

      There isn’t much to say

      Assuming

      Where your footprints go away

      My traveler lady

      This morning

      Nowhere woman

      Asleep vanity

      Moments

      The breath of your voice

      Unexpected song

      While snowing at night

      A free verse

      Memoirs

      CHAPTER FOUR

      BACK TO THE NEST OF MY MEMOIRS …

      Immortal melody

      My reasons for loving you…

      In a twilight

      Quiet woman

      The singing of your eyes

      My endless confession

      Silently reminding you

      A bitter farewell

      Today

      Staring at you

      Summer melody

      Seashore Loneliness

      Saudade…

      Footprints of the Queen without a crown…

      A hymn to my memoirs

      Is destiny bringing us back together?

      Tale of the Meeting for Peace

      Prologue

      They say about the time, that its magic makes unbroken walls form the good memories, and it is true, they are not only irreplaceable tiles, but also the greatest proof that the best state of human mind is experienced during maturity.

      This new creation, and from whose inseparable rumors I could not escape for whole mornings, afternoons and nights, finally comes into my life by facing the world fighting, sailing, laughing, moving, crying, flying and growing… and as a new being, it will find among the readers, my friends, its real parents…

       . . . because as I ever confided to a woman, I am not creator of my verses, but who has inspired them; I’m not their judge, because the best literary critic and final owner is precisely, whoever reads them, a fact that in our times has been considered a virtue…

       . . . The poet isn’t translator of metaphors, is an instrument of divine forces, whose assigned task is to throw the world ideas for the eyes to crumble and mind to digest, while heart transport them to memory, so the body dissolves them with smiles… that’s poetry…

      Twelve years have passed after the first words written from the bottom of my heart on a Sunday moon in Canada, through an incredible nature which thickened my feelings and filled them in a spring that changed my life forever; and by having this project on my hands, I feel those old illusions gratefully coming to visit my own shadows…

      And as a painter contemplating his strokes of brush again and again, repeatedly, from different angles and analyzing every nuance, I admire all these branches that sprout among letters, because more than a collection of titled poems, this is an anthology of the most beautiful moments of my life until then, in those lands of maple, bears and the Canucks of hockey.

      I would certainly like to say, dear reader, that this long trail of words, isn’t but the biography of my stay in that place, and as the snowy days passed, sometimes short, and some other times long, I gave expression to my feelings on sheets, doilies, napkins and even newspapers, with the unique intention of unleashing a shaking fire that captivated and condemned myself to an irresistible inspiration, born on a feeling of love experienced for the first time as an obvious circumstance…

      There were happy moments that not even the best smile could expressed my emotions, long moments of melancholy clouding my eyes countless times, unquenchable fire, of course, that shook my body in a thirst over the heat of flesh witnessed by my heart for the

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