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Aurelio Arturo Martínez (n. La Union , Nariño , 22 of February of 1906 - f. Bogota , 24 of November of 1974 ) was a Colombian poet, lawyer and magistrate court work and the military court. It has been rated many times as the best poet of Colombia in the twentieth century despite its limited work His only book, Residence South , is a collection of fourteen poems (in which is included the homonymous poem ) That embody vivid memories of their homeland.

Climate

This green poem, leaf by leaf, is rocked by the fertile, southwest wind; this poem is a country that dreams, a cloud of light and a breeze of green leaves.

Drought

Because the thirst had wounded everything, all beings, every land of men . . . And never again would the rain return

Lullaby

The night is very busy rocking one by one, so many leaves. And the leaves don't fall asleep,

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