Gacela of the Flight
Gacela of the Flight - meaning Summary
Loss and Searching in Imagery
The poem uses recurring sea imagery and repetition to present a speaker who drifts between love, memory, and a yearning for dissolution. Images of children, kisses, newborns and skulls set life beside death, while roses and rooted hands suggest the pull of nature and fate. The tone blends longing and anguish as the speaker admits being lost and seeking a consuming, luminous death rather than clear resolution.
Read Complete AnalysesOften I lost myself in the sea, my ears filled with fresh-cut flowers my tongue filled with love and anguish. Often I lost myself in the sea, as I am lost in the hearts of children. No one when giving a kiss fails to feel the smile of faceless people. No one who touches a newborn child, forgets the immobile skulls of horses. Because the roses search the forehead, for the toughened landscapes of bone, and Man's hands have no fate, but to imitate roots, under the ground. As I am lost in the hearts of children, often I lost myself in the sea. Ignorant of water, I go searching, for death, in light, consuming me.
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