The 10 best poems by Mario Benedetti (full of inspiration)

A sample of the best verses of this brilliant Uruguayan poet, playwright and writer.

The name of Mario Benedetti is known as one of the most famous Uruguayan writers, playwrights and poets of recent times, being the author of both literary works such as "La tregua" and beautiful poems about love and multiple other topics, including something as mundane as middle-class life.

Died in 2009, this author who is part of the generation of 45 and who enjoys international recognition has left us a lot of works that can make us reflect and look at his way of seeing and feeling in the world. Specifically, in this article we are going to see a brief selection of Mario Benedetti's poems to see the best of this author. to see the best of this author.

A selection of poems by Mario Benedetti

The following are a total of ten of Mario Benedetti's poems, on themes such as love, not giving up, melancholy, politics and human nature.

1. Let's make a deal

Compañera you know you can count on me not up to two or up to ten but count on me.

If you ever notice that I look into your eyes and you recognize a vein of love in mine, do not alert your guns and do not think that I am delirious in spite of the vein or perhaps because it exists, you can count on me.

If at other times you find me sullen for no reason, don't think how lazy you can still count on me.

But let's make a deal, I would like to count I would like to count on you. It is so nice to know that you exist, one feels alive and when I say this I mean to count even if it is up to two, even if it is up to five, not so that you come to my aid in haste but to know for sure that you know that you can count on me.

One of the author's best known and most popular love poems, it expresses in a few lines that appreciation for the loved one is unconditional, and that no matter what happens and that no matter what happens, he or she will always be able to count on us.

Practical semantics

We know that the soul as the principle of life is an outdated religious and idealistic conception, but it is still valid in its second meaning, that is, the hollow of the barrel of a gun.

It must be recognized, however, that popular language is not strictly up to date and that when the same student who read in Konstantinov that the idea of the soul is fantastic and naive kisses the naive and fantastic lips of the little classmate who does not know the second meaning and in spite of this says I love you with all my soul, it is obvious that he is not trying to suggest that he loves her with all the hollow of the barrel.

This short poem makes a small reflection on the soul and its meaning, focusing on its romantic and spiritual use..

3. States of mind

Sometimes I feel like a poor hill and sometimes like a mountain of repeated summits. Sometimes I feel like a cliff and sometimes like a blue but distant sky. Sometimes one is a spring among rocks and sometimes a tree with the last leaves.

But today I feel just like a sleepless lagoon with a wharf without boats; a green lagoon motionless and patient with its algae, its mosses and its fish, serene in my confidence.

Trusting that one evening you will come closer and look at me, look at you as you look at me.

Poem that tells us how the author's mood varies over time, oscillating over time and hoping to find love.

4. When we were children

When we were kids old people were like thirty a pond was an ocean death plain and simple did not exist.

Then when we were kids the old people were in their forties a pond was an ocean death just a word.

By the time we got married the old people were in their fifties a lake was an ocean death was the death of others. of the others.

Now veterans we have reached the truth the ocean is finally the ocean but death is beginning to be ours.

This poem makes a brief reflection on how things change, our knowledge, life positions, opinions and expectations, as we grow older.

5. Don't save yourself

Don't stand still at the roadside don't freeze your joy don't be reluctant don't save yourself now or ever.

Don't save yourself don't fill yourself with calm don't reserve from the world only a quiet corner don't drop the heavy eyelids like judgments don't stay without lips don't fall asleep without sleep don't think without Blood don't judge without time.

But if in spite of everything you can't help it and you freeze the jubilation and you want with reluctance and you save yourself now and you fill yourself with calm and you reserve from the world only a quiet corner and you drop the heavy eyelids like judgments and you dry yourself without lips and you fall asleep without sleep and you think yourself without blood and you judge yourself without time and you stand still by the roadside and you save yourself then don't stay with me.

This poem expresses the need not to run away, to stop escaping and seek a place in which to merely survive. The poem asks us to fight, to face what life has done to us and live as we want to live, with enthusiasm and seeking to achieve our goals.

6. Man looking at his country from exile

Green and wounded country comarquita really poor homeland. Country hoarse and empty tomb girl blood on blood.

Country far and near occasion of the executioner the best in the stocks. Country violin in bag or silence hospital or poor artigas.

Country shaken fist and letter dungeon and meadows. Country you will be armed piece by piece people my people.

This poem This poem refers to the moment in his life when a coup d'état broke out in Uruguay.which would end up causing the author to go into exile.

7. Report on caresses

The caress is a language if your caresses speak to me I would not want them to be silent.

The caress is not the copy of another distant caress, it is a new version almost always improved.

It is the party of the skin the caress while it lasts and when it moves away it leaves lust unprotected.

The caresses of dreams that are prodigy and enchantment suffer from a defect it has no touch.

As an adventure and an enigma, the caress begins before it becomes a caress.

It is clear that the best thing is not the caress itself but its continuation.

These verses tell us about the power of caresses in love as well as in sex.

8. All greenery

All greenery will perish said the voice of writing as always implacable.

But it is also true that any new greenery could not exist if the perished greenery had not completed its cycle.

Hence our greenery, that strange conjunction of your spring and my autumn, surely has repercussions on others, teaches others, helps others to rescue their greenery.

That is why, although the scriptures do not say so, all greenery will be reborn.

This poem tells us about the past and about the future, about what there was and what there will be. It tells us about the important role of our predecessors as guides for us to emerge, and also about our future role for future generations. It also shows that nothing dies foreverbecause that which, although everything has to end, will come back to life.

9. Still

I don't believe it yet you are still coming to my side and the night is a handful of stars and joy.

I feel like I hear and see your face your long step your hands and yet I still don't believe it.

Your return has so much to do with you and me that by cabal I say it and just in case I sing it.

No one ever replaces you and the most trivial things become fundamental because you are coming home.

Yet I still doubt this good fortune because the heaven of having you seems like fantasy to me.

But you come and it is certain and you come with your gaze and so your arrival makes the future magical.

And although I have not always understood my faults and my failures, I know that in your arms the world makes sense.

And if I kiss the boldness and the mystery of your lips there will be no doubts and I will love you even more.

The longing and the illusion of seeing the loved one again is what the author expresses in this beautiful poem.

10. I love you

Your hands are my caress my daily chords I love you because your hands work for justice

If I love you it's because you are my love my accomplice and everything and in the street side by side we are much more than two

Your eyes are my incantation against the bad day I love you for your gaze that looks and sows the future.

Your mouth that is yours and mine your mouth is not wrong I love you because your mouth knows how to shout rebellion.

If I love you it's because you are my love my accomplice and everything and in the street side by side we are much more than two.

And for your sincere face and your wandering step and your crying for the world because you are people I love you.

And because love is not a halo or a candid moral and because we are a couple who know they are not alone.

I want you in my paradise that is to say that in my country people live happily even if they don't have permission.

If I love you it is because you are my love, my accomplice and everything and in the street side by side we are much more than two.

Let's finish this small selection of poems with a beautiful love poem in which the author expresses what the loved one means to him. the author expresses what the loved one means to him..