TE19 Iberian Adventure

El Colombiario

Amazonian Sonnet

On the ancestral farm shouting blared between palms, vines and drummers. With blood, feathers, seeds and flowers, in a forest clearing the ritual blazed. Under the fury of green infinity, men, bonfires, tobacco, liquors were reviving buried splendours from sacred song to transcribed memory. Reciting only the harmonious pulse of the gloomy jungle throbbing, the sonnet of the Amazon they sowed. They were fourteen lines of gladness for a constant watery sobbing that towards the blue Atlantic flowed.

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