Patricia Elena Vilas (Argentina, 1958)
Born in the Federal Capital. She has a degree in Parliamentary Management. She has published her poems in national and international anthologies. Her important work has been distinguished with honorable mentions and awards at a national and international level, such as: Arco de Córdoba (2017 y 2018), Premio Internacional Grandes Mujeres (2019), Premio Nacional e Internacional Obelisco de Oro (2019 y 2020), Premio Atrezzo América-Europa (2019-2021), Premio Nacional Gaviota de Plata (2019 y 2020), Premio Internacional Award The Best (2019), Premio Nacional Raíces (2019), Premio Nacional Cadena Mundial para la Paz, Premio Reina del Plata (2019-2021), Premio Nacional e Internacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Premio Poldy Bird and Estrella Argentina 2021.
She has participated in Book Fairs, Congresses, Meetings and Summits. A poem of her authorship was selected in a presentation of the World Art Games, in Norway. She participated in “Woman and Poetry in Latin America 2018”, with the books “Nocturnal Reflections” and “Simply… life and verses” that were part of the “XIII International Meeting of Women Writers – Morocco 2018” event, which took place in Tetouan, Morocco, Africa. She is an academic member of the North American Academy of Modern Literature and associate academic member of the Latin American and Argentine Academies of Modern Literature and Vice Director of the Center for Writers and Authors of La Plata. She was selected as a semifinalist in the poetry category in the 2017/2018 Belt of Honor contest, organized by the Society of Writers of the province of Buenos Aires. She was a second-place finalist in the International Prize for Poetry, Short Story and Poetic Prose organized by the Ibero-American Cultural Institute.
World of Shadows and Torments The strongest pain touches the silence;
conducts to the infinite, a sound of stars.
The thoughts unhang from the world
begging the sea of forgotten verses for truth.
The solitude and grief wander
the spaces between your death and mine,
in a sunset devoid of love
and plenty of unspeakable anguishes.
The stairs take me to the infinite,
just rueful sound is given back by the dance of the dead.
Your magical scream a mystery, rare,
wandering soul, absorbed, dismembered.
I found crystal shadows on the way,
the deep pain of my entrails
wanders silently by the mountains,
disposed of love, sorrows, and tempests.
A white robe receives me at the dawn,
the crystals of your story reflected
the tenderness of the sweet torment,
an obscure abyss, the solitude is not enough.
The winged kiss shines in the tormented fog,
born of dark sighs, oblivions, and anguish
buried by ancient madness
and dark dawns.
In the mutilated sunset of thoughts
my fragile soul wandered around the world
searching shadows that step by step
enclosing my soul in dark abysm.
Dusty eyes challenged the shadows of the eternal Spring,
light of dark candles enlightened
my illusioned world of torments.
Young harmonies of the now-time non-existing love,
a mixture of bodies in the obscurity of the clay
where the night is dressed up as abandon
opens itself with a low fire challenging obscurity.
I’m a spinning shadow,
the word that sleeps in the last swing of the square
waiting for your vanished shadow
in the sinister mist of the night.
PATRICIA ELENA VILAS
MAGICAL DREAMS
Magical dreams lost in the cosmos,
happy scattered memories
by wide devastated worlds
by the silent waves of memory.
In the deepest darkness
I remembered languid and broken words
of broken promises
dropped from the time tunnel
Time of encounters and disagreements,
memories and lost loves,
nights disguised as absences,
deluded world of torments.
Silence envelops my thrown soul
to the abyss stripped of darkness,
behind the distant mountains of oblivion,
all is stillness, all is sunset.
I want to see how the moon hides,
feel the yearning of our bodies,
plagued by non-existent longings
covered in magical dreams.
PATRICIA ELENA VILAS
WISHES
My caresses run through your dark body,
naked, without shadows,
winding the smoothness of your skin,
Do you know how much I want you?
I sigh in the distance
I try to penetrate your soul
fill me with you
and say goodbye to the world.
Today I saw coffee in your eyes,
took me to my dream,
Today I have seen the sky in your eyes,
I became an angel.
Today I have seen fire in your eyes,
I understood the burning love
that enveloped you
I feel your presence
anchored to my aura,
I feel your presence
attached to my body,
I feel your presence
fluttering in the air
Orchid scented.
the ice went through
the snowy dawn
the spiral of life
grows more every day,
impossible to stop it.
I would have wished
meet you in another time,
somewhere else.
PATRICIA ELENA VILAS
