On February 3, we were able to attend a poetry workshop organized by the Alhaurín el Grande City Council, masterfully directed by the poet Juan Carlos Fiebre . Fantastic Saturday morning immersing ourselves in the literary language that seems to facilitate the expression of the inexplicable. Love, pain, dreams... wonderful engineering of articulating letters, words, with an open heart.
Although it is not the only important review of the many that were brought, due to its extreme beauty we share here an example of prose poetry, which JC Fiebre reminded us of, from the book “A pale blue dot: a vision of the human future in space” of the great Carl Sagan.
"Look at that spot. That's here. That's our home. That's us. In it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived their life. The sum of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of self-assured religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and gatherer, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every moral teacher, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there—on a speck of Dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in the vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood shed by all those generals and emperors, so that in their glory and triumph, they could become momentary masters of a fraction of a point. Think of the endless cruelties committed by the inhabitants of one corner of the point on the barely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill each other, how fervent their hatreds. Our postures, our imagined importance, the illusion that we occupy a privileged position in the Universe... is challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a solitary speck in the great and enveloping cosmic gloom. In our darkness—in all this vastness—there is not a hint that help will come from anywhere else to save us from ourselves. Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle down, not yet. Whether we like it or not, for the moment Earth is where we have to stay. It has been said that astronomy is a builder of humility and character. Perhaps there is no better demonstration of human pride than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to treat each other more kindly and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we have ever known."
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