Dulce María Loynaz (December 10, 1902 - 1997) Born in Cuba. Member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Language wrote novels and Poetry is one of the greatest Cuban poets. 1992 recipient of the Cervantes Prize in Literature. December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. ... The Real Academia Española ( Spanish for Royal Spanish Academy; often RAE) is the institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language. ... Premio Miguel de Cervantes (the Miguel de Cervantes Prize) is awarded annually to honor the whole career of an outstanding writer in Spanish language. ...

Two Poems

I dream of classifying

I had dream of classifying

Good and Evil, the same way scientist

classify butterflies:

I had dream to pin Good and Evil

in the dark velvet

of the glass display case…

Under the white butterfly

a label that will read “The Good”.

under the black butterfly,

a label that will read “The Evil”.

But the white butterfly

was not the good, neither the black butterfly

was the evil… And between my two butterflies,

green, golden and infinite all the earth butterflies fly.

If you love me, love me whole

If you love me, love me whole

not by zones of light or shadow…

if you love me, love me black

and white, and gray and green and blond,

and mixed…

love me day,

love me night…

and in the morning with the open window!

If you love me, don’t break me in pieces:

love me whole… Or do not love me at all.

Dos Poemas

YO SOÑABA EN CLASIFICAR...

Yo soñaba en clasificar

el Bien y el Mal, como los sabios

clasifican las mariposas:

Yo soñaba en clavar el Bien y el Mal

en el obscuro terciopelo

de una vitrina de cristal...

Debajo de la mariposa

blanca, un letrero que dijera: "EL BIEN".

Debajo de la mariposa

negra, un letrero que dijera: "EL MAL".

Pero la mariposa blanca

no era el bien, ni la mariposa negra

era el mal... ¡Y entre mis dos mariposas,

volaban verdes, áureas, infinitas,

todas las mariposas de la tierra!...

SI ME QUIERES, QUIÉREME ENTERA

Si me quieres, quiéreme entera,

no por zonas de luz o sombra...

Si me quieres, quiéreme negra

y blanca. Y gris, y verde, y rubia,

y morena...

Quiéreme día,

quiéreme noche...

¡Y madrugada en la ventana abierta!

Si me quieres, no me recortes:

¡Quiéreme toda... O no me quieras!

Some of her published work includes.

Versos (Verses). Madrid,1950.
Poemas sin nombre (Nameless Poems). Aguilar.
Bestiarium (Bestiary). Poems
Poemas naúfragos (Shipwrecked poems). Editorial Letras Cubanas, 1991.

Jardín (Garden). Lyric novel. Aguilar, Madrid, 1951.
Un verano en Tenerife (A summer in Tenerife). Memoir. Aguilar, Madrid, 1958.
Carta de Amor al Rey Tut-Ank-Amen (Love Letter to King Tutankhamen).
Poems Without Name. Bilingual: English translations by Harriet de Onís. Editorial José Martí, 1993.

External links

• Website about Dulce María  (http://www.loynazenglish.org/index.htm) Includes pictures, poems in English and in Spanish by Dulce María.
• Poems by Dulce María in Spanish (http://www.los-poetas.com/m/dulce1.htm).
• The Poets (http://www.los-poetas.com/).
• Dulce (http://www.los-poetas.com/m/dulce.htm)