Leonor Maria Irarrázaval Correa (Chile)

Las mariposas del jardín de los enamorados (Butterflies in Love’s Garden)

se han ido 

las he espantado 

una tras otra

se han ido 

escapando de mis tormentos 

¿qué nos queda? me pregunto

amor 

¿qué nos queda? te pregunto

amor 

quizás algún día vuelvan  

con el sol de una mañana 

quizás algún dia las haga volver  

con mis besos  

y tus besos 

quizás algún dia entren por una ventana 

para vernos 

mi cuerpo y tu cuerpo  

juntos 

amor

Butterflies in Love’s Garden

They have gone

I have frightened them

one by one

they have gone

escaping my torments

what is left?  I ask myself

what is left? I ask you

maybe one day they will return

with the morning sun

maybe one day I will make them return

with my kisses

and your kisses

maybe one day they will come

through the window

to see us

my body and your body

together

love

 Untitled 

estoy pegada en un presente sin destino

amandote hace cien años

deseandote siempre

te extraño toda mi vida 

I am stuck in a present without destiny

loving you 100 years

desiring you always

missing you all my life 

   Untitled

most of the time

I find my self swimming in a sea

a sea full of sadness

deep

dark

blue 

sometimes

somepeople

take me to the surface

to breath

I see the light again  

Untitled 

aquí está mi amor  

donde lo dejo

si tu no quieres tomarlo con tus manos

entonces es sólo mío

entonces no es amor

es profunda tristeza

Here is my love

where do I leave it

if you won’t hold it in your hands?

Then it’s only mine

then it’s not love

it is deep sadness

  Untitled  

todo lo que sale no viene de adentro

la sonrisa se quiebra

ries de lo que te parte

huyes al encuentro y te encuentras en la huida

gritas en silencio

miras sin los ojos

  BIO

      Leonor Maria Irarrázaval Correa was born in Concepción,

                 Chile in 1968. She grew up in the countryside, near the rivers

                  Bío Bío and Laja, close to the Andes. She has Basque, Catalan

                  and Irish roots. 

                  During the middle of the dictatorship, as a teenager she went

                  to live in London for two years. This time in Europe, and the

                  death of her father the year before, had an important

                  influence on her future thoughts about life.

                  She returned to Chile and studied psychology in Santiago

                  during the transition government to democracy.

                  Always interested in psychotherapy, she worked in different

                  areas; counselling in a jail, creating workshops for factory

                  workers and treating people in mental health centres. She also

                  worked at the university as an assistant teacher for Social

                  Psychology, Clinical and Pathological Psychology and

                  Psychiatry.

                  She moved  back to Europe four years ago to continue her development as a

                 psychotherapist. She currently lives in Barcelona.

                  Leonor has her own practice. Her orientation is fundamentally

                  humanistic, based on the constructivism and post rationalism

                  approaches.

            Contact: lirarrazaval at yahoo dot com