FUTURE STARS
Guillermo Gómez Rivera
To my granddaughters Ana and Ysa Gómez
In the end, I got my two granddaughters
to dance sevillanas and flamenco.
They look very elegant in their tailed robes
and their polka dot dresses.
They will be the stars of these dances
In the magical and sumptuous future.
Manila, 7 December 2012
(English translation mine. This poem appears in Don Guillermo's "Antipoemario Íntimo" published in 2022. This poem is a divination fulfilled as the two girls are now the flamenco stars of Bárbara's Heritage Restaurant in Intramuros. Today is Don Guillermo's 87th birthday.)
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