Ekiwah Adler Belendez - The life and work of a young poet

Let me travel in this spider’s web
and keep my balance
swinging boldly as I spin,
not caring about understanding what I mean
or wondering what I feel;
riddles burden me,
answers seem too familiar.
Let me leave all that behind

(excerpt from Odyssey, Weaver)

I’m l7 and writing poetry is my passion. I’ve had three books of poetry published: Soy (I am) – 2000, Palabras Inagotables (Never Ending Words) – 2001, and Weaver - 2003.

“I think that what poets do is decipher silence.” Ekiwah Adler Beléndez
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I saw the story on Dateline NBC Sunday evening of how a surgical specialist in neuro-muscular disorders came across a gifted young prodigy with cerebral palsy who lives in a small village in Central Mexico. (the following is a snippet from the article and a poem by they young man.)

The fact that they reached this doctor, in a routine request for medical intervention, may indeed have been a sign of divine intervention because Dr. Nuzzo knows almost as much about meter and rhyme, as muscle and bone. He's not only a surgeon, but a lover of poetry and a writer, himself, and what he read that day stunned him.
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NOTHING

I feel like a tree that has no branches,
like a warrior that has failed his mission,
locked in a room with no door, no way out.
The earth like empty streets -
no birds singing, only cars rushing by.
I don't even feel like the air
or a rock that never moves.
I feel like nothing.
I feel like the sea will swallow me,
the sky will fall on my head.
The worst of thieves has robbed my smiles,
I am a ghost, an illusion,
I know Nothing, and Nothing knows me.

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The following is a link to another of his poems, and has a contact email on the page that can be used to get info for purchase of any of his three published books of poetry.

A little digging on Google and I found another article on him from 2003 in The New York Daily News: Poet Prodigy Well Versed in Adversity