Catalina Gutierrez is a Mexican born artist who grew up in nature, which gave her a lot of sources of inspiration along her life. Living here and overseas has enriched even more of her creativity over the years.
She finds her inspiration in existence and the essence of what she sees is imprinted in the words that she writes. She has a passion for life, loves music, and has a unique way of seeing beauty.
She is a nature lover, gardener, poet, permaculturist, and is food passionate. She is a gentle soul but is a vibrant and loving spirit to whomever she encounters.
Flame of Life
Life.
Be the music in my body, run inside of me.
Electrify each filament.
Be the wind that blows the breath of life in me,
overflowing with joy.
Dear Sun, give me your fire, fill my holes, take out
what is no longer needed, burn what no longer fills me.
Be the reflection I seek within myself;
I introduce inside my being.
Be the mirror that I see in myself, I no longer deny.
I want to feel your flame of life flow in my existence.
Because if life in me is not movement and renewing,
I will leave everything there.
Beloved heavenly water, come to my encounter,
quench the thirst of my desires, of my desert.
Come to my heaven, be in me dance and movement.
*****
My Heaven
My heaven you are made of velvet.
From velvet are made your sunsets.
The time you stop.
Everything in beauty you transform.
Your sunflowers bloom in my inner, they magnify me.
They are Subtle in me.
In my present everything anew becomes.
Your silence is melodious, virtuous,
you turn everything into music.
From nowhere you emerge in me,
in my chest you submerge.
Beautiful in my eyes you are.
Your verses run through my mind…
your afternoon illuminates my present.
You are a note of life in my unconscious,
in my unconsciousness.
Of velvet you are made of my heaven.
The night comes to me.
The moon grows in me.
Autumn, you come back to me.
*****
Amado sol
Amado sol ya no me quemes, el alma no me seques.
Que de tu lado no quiero desprenderme,
en tu luz quiero estar siempre.
Quiero alumbrar mis ojos con el fuego que en ellos viertes.
Tu calor quiero en mi piel se quede,
el cuerpo me eleves, una sonrisa en el corazón me dejes.
Mi espíritu engrandece, enaltece, mil semillas
de versos en mi crece.
Amado sol
En mi todo florece,
Mi pecho embellece,
que de puras preciosas pinturas mis ojos se llenen.
Que tu brillo en mis días se refleje,
la oscuridad se lleve, todo desaliento queme.
Que tu suavidad me bese,
mi amor acrecente, me desborde hasta el inconsciente.
Que tu luz amado mío pura vida en mi aliente.
Bella Estrella está mañana llegas, alumbras con tu estela,
vibras la vida con tu presencia.
El día siente tu fuerza.
Más preciosa vuelves la existencia.
Iluminas este tiempo, naces de nuevo,
caes del cielo.
Nace de nuevo Estrella.
Quema con tu luz lo que no te agrega,
la oscuridad que opaca el brillo que llevas.
Deja que los luceros celestes en ti resplandezcan,
cada fibra de tu ser renueva, que más hermoso lo vuelvan.
Más brillosa será tu estela.
Deja mi amor te envuelva, porque en mi eres
desde que mire en tus ojos la luz que llevas, percibí tu esencia.
Porque bella y radiante siempre ha sido toda tu existencia.
*****
The Source of Life
Let the source of life vibrate all your being.
Keep infusing the World with your existence.
Let your spark ignite the day, the night, the life, your one.
Let the infinite take you to the core of your being
and make you vibrate.
Oh, dear soul, that like me, walks alone
but gently on this universe.
Let us leave our sorrows drown in the sea.
Let us swim free in the depths of our fears.
Let them compost deep down at our feet.
Let us shine in each other’s eyes.
Let our smiles embrace.
Let our hearts vibrate in the warmth of this earth.
Let them beat in sync with pure joy, with pure love.
So, we can remember how to recognize
the beauty in each other.
We are like mirrors.
We are like stars.
We are just a filament of eternal light,
beauty of all existence.
*****
Beloved Mountain
Oh, beloved mountain where would I be if you weren’t here?
Where would I go?
If there is nowhere else that I want to go,
I would probably be more lost, when I have all lost.
There is no content, only smiles that I regret,
my heart that I gave away.
There is only lament.
There is nothing of me left.
Dear mountain, just caress me with your soft edges,
embrace me tight for ages.
That this love pain doesn’t go, it penetrates slowly.
It stays, it doesn’t go.
I am crying on your river; I overflow it weeping.
My tears don’t go, they flow down slowly.
The days go by, and I do not get mine.
I do not get a break from this lament.
Time I do not feel, It is surreal.
Not even the Sun warms up and I am outside.
The night is out.
My heart just wants to follow his smile,
but he does not give me a chance, does not give me time.
Does not want to know what I have inside.
Does not want to take any part.
Not even a piece of my kiss, he does not want to touch my skin.
He just leaves my side, leaves emptiness inside.
That does not get me anywhere, but I have to put on a smile.
It kills me inside.
It breaks my heart.
There is nothing left of what I am.
*****
Beloved Rain
Beloved rain
Don’t leave us without your melody.
Don’t leave us without your drops of life.
Always keep us company, that, without you,
life already calms down.
Without you, life I cannot feel.
Time dries up the earth that I see, makes cracks inside of me.
And my inner I no longer show.
Don’t go away from my heaven.
Beloved rain, Don’t take the heat that fills my inner.
Don’t take away the greenery that exuberates my exterior.
Let your storm keep falling down from the sky,
enrapture me inside, let your thunder vibrate my body.
Let the toads continue singing at night, let the crickets follow your melody,
keep invoking it, your song whispering.
Leave the fireflies in silence, the darkness continues
to illuminate, verses in me inspire.
Stay. Create universes inside of me.
Let your rain fall on me, that you complete my whole being.
Without you, verses no longer come.
Poems in me no longer grow, flowers do not bloom.
With you I feel complete, I see myself complete,
you overflow with joy within me.
Stay in heaven, stay in my firmament, let the wind
always bring you to meet me.
Move my whole being, keep putting smiles inside of me,
keep moving my destiny.
Stay in heaven.
*****
Distance
How distant you are to me. I never thought
that you could be like this.
I never thought distance could weigh so much.
It is crushing my heart dry.
Your distance weighs an ocean inside.
Nearly you touched my skin, and no word
came from your lips to me.
Nearly my body you touched,
but only my arms you clutched.
You gave me no chance.
I could not stand or understand.
I could not dance.
I could not give you my heart.
You just let this time take you even further
from my arms.
How far away and close from me you are.
You do not want to see my smile.
You do not want to come by.
How sad.
How sad you come near my chest.
You stay in my mind without rest.
You put an ocean between my intent.
Giving my smile I regret.
You do not want to come and meet mine again.
You do not want to come by.
You do not want to embrace me tightly.
You do not want to see my eyes.
I better go, dig a hole, and bury my heart.
I will throw it a stone.
I better go and leave you alone.
I better go away, and not go slowly,
to not burden you with my love anymore.
*****
You Would Not Believe
You would not believe how much I feel for you.
You would not believe how deep you can reach,
get to even the most enclosed bits of me.
You are inside of me.
I cannot believe, I cannot conceive how
you can touch me like this, how you can melt on my skin.
How easy you can enter me, move me like this, get me crazy for your kiss.
How can you reach my heart like this?
Vibrate my entire being.
Oh, my love, how I feel you, I know that you cannot find a reason.
But how strong my soul you touch, you move slow, I lose my words.
Inside I am a bomb, my heart explodes, you accelerated it all.
My body is a storm, inside I feel a swarm.
I want your warmth. I want it all.
In your eyes I want to see your shining glow.
I want to feel you slow, go with your flow, see your fire on show.
I want to be on your skin a poem, find all your tender spots.
How strong my whole soul you have touched.
I just have no words.
What you produce in my body has no remorse, it is out of this world.
Your scent takes it all, I have no rope to hold, you take all sanity out of my world.
I lost it all. I have nothing to grab onto.
I want to go and find your soft slopes, breathe the fresh air that you hold.
Oh, my love. For your perfume I lost it all.
Your aroma has taken root in me even in the corners
that I hid the most.
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After he retired and moved to Sedona, Arizona, he taught literature at Yavapai College in Clarkdale, Arizona.
He and professional artist Bev Kephart bought a small motor home in 2003, sold most of their possessions, and traveled the U. S. for seven years. After visiting Mexico several times, they settled in the village of Ajijic, joining the ex-pat artist and writing communities.
Mel’s writing has been published online and in print in The United Kingdom, The United States, Mexico, New Zealand, and Australia. He is the author of three novels, a book of short stories, and several books of poetry. He and his wife now make their home in the village of San Nicholas de Ibarra.
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