Poetry Is Talent Too

Still haven’t heard? A poet has won the television contest Got Talent . The young César Brandon has managed to captivate the public only with his words, without frills, with poetry. Alone, on a large stage, before hundreds of people, he has reached the hearts of hundreds of people with words, without singing or gesturing, only reciting poetry.

But it turns out that Caesar’s life has not been a road free of great obstacles. Born in Equatorial Guinea, he emigrated to Spain seven years ago. If writing poetry is not something for everyone, imagine how difficult it is to do it in a language other than your mother tongue. While he is not lacking in skill, we well know that without effort, without hard work, hope and persistence, success is rarely possible.

Zero poetry

César made himself known to the general public with a poem entitled the poetry of zero. In it he tells the story of how zero finds one and they share their happiness, until he ends up leaving him for at least one. A metaphor of numbers about true love. Love that doesn’t always last.

With a lot of humor and a quick recite, César recounts the adventures and misadventures of two numbers. But this does not mean that we find ourselves with an absurd and empty poem. Poetry, with all its metaphors, always gives us food for thought. It makes us arrive at different interpretations, possibly far from the author’s reality, but always adjusted to ours. An example is found at the end of the poem: “he began to count up to what scared him the most, infinity, or, perhaps, two. ” How close are our fears?

Moon and earth

With a more dramatic tone, César raised the audience again by telling us the story of two other lovers, this time very shy. It was about the earth and the moon. With this wonderful poem, Caesar describes the hypothetical things that the earth would think of telling the moon to conquer it. For example, “that on earth we were all citizens of a place called the first world because the second knew little about us and the third was developing. “

In addition, this poem is loaded with social criticism. Verses such as “refugees are not made of internet opinions” do not leave the listener indifferent. And it is that life is not easy because, as César says, “two do fight although one does not want to and vice versa, that one does not have enough with two and looks for three to invent that all four are happy until the number is multiplied. problem and four ends up calling 016 ”.

Mother

The last poem, with which he won the contest, had a more solemn tone. The poem, as its name suggests, was dedicated to his mother, whom he compares with the default parameters of the word, since he prefers that his mother does not have “the body of the Calibri, the eleven points and the one point zero of the spacing”. Because he wants it “straight, double-spaced and in Times New Roman. “

Regretful of his youth, César highlights the teachings of his mother that he did not know how to value at the time. Without underestimating the figure of a father, of whom he tells us that “they are all those whose dreams are too small, the little they sleep to fulfill them and apart …”. Comparing yourself to a misspelling gives us a real lesson in humanity.

A just victor

His victory represents a monument to lovers of reading and writing. César has managed to make a discipline as discredited as poetry on everyone’s lips. In a country where the reading level is below a book a year, where the most watched programs reject any kind of culture and respect, where making a fool of yourself is valued more than skill and work. In that country, César Brandon has been able to fulfill one of his dreams and, although he is surely very grateful, we should be the ones grateful, for reminding us that we still know how to dream.

And it is that poetry is also psychology. To paraphrase Eduardo Galeano, “scientists say that we are made of atoms, a little bird told me that we are made of stories”, because that’s what people are, stories that can be told in many ways. This is why diversity, multiculturalism, and open-mindedness are so important. The bigger our vocabulary, the more beautiful our story will be. The talent is behind the opportunities.