What poems did the Colombian Nobel Prize winner write?

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, also known as Gabo, was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia, He had a life marked by an overflowing passion for writing from an early age.

His masterpiece, “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, catapulted him to world fame and established him as one of the main exponents of the magical realism.

With a masterful pen, García Márquez not only ventured into the novel, but also into poetry. Throughout his life, he wrote a series of poems that reflected his deep sensitivity and his ability to capture the essence of life and love. Among his most notable poems are “Blue Dog Eyes”, “The Whale Song”, and “Love Poems”“.

According to the website of the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for New Ibero-American Journalism (FNPI)García Márquez believed in the transformative power of words and the importance of literature as a tool to understand the world.

His poems, like his novels, are infused with a unique poetic language and an overflowing imagination that transports the reader to magical and exciting worlds.

If someone knocks on your door, my friend,

and something in your blood beats and does not rest

and in your stem of water, trembling,

the source is a liquid of harmony.

If someone knocks on your door and still

you have plenty of time to be beautiful

and all April fits in a rose

and for the rose the day bleeds

If someone knocks on your door one morning

sound of doves and bells

and you still believe in pain and poetry.

If life is still true and the verse exists.

If someone knocks on your door and you are sad,

Open up, what is love, my friend.

He succumbed to its fragrance.

God keep her in his kingdom

This love that has come suddenly

and knows the reason for beauty.

This love, loving garment,

tight to the heart exactly.

that is a childhood of dreams on the forehead,

that is liquid music on the forehead

and it is a nostalgic star in the height.

This love that is the verse and is the rose.

And it is knowing that life in everything

It is repeated to us ever louder.

So eternal, this love, so resistible,

that compared to impossible time

know where it borders on death.