SEED

Virginia Fernández Collado

I remain as a seed
in a wasteland
I grow skyward
I salute the bears
birds are my friends
my religion is water
I pray to sunbeam
flower is my sister
I live on earth
I have the roots where the apple is
I have no homeland
I hug the air
my gaze flies free to the eternal
blue sky.

(From the book: Rain. Poems 2006-2016, Fondo Kati, 2020)

Virginia Fernández Collado is a recipient of the 1st Prize (poetry mode) at the
XII Young Creation Competition, Ciudad de Almería in 2011. She has published
in EP (S) EL PAÍS SEMANAL in the opinion section “Letters and Contributors”,
in “El diario urbano” in Santiago de Chile and in Quillota (Chile). She has
collaborated in the magazine “Axarquia”. Some of her poems have appeared in
joint books. Her published books are: Predator (2015), and Poems 2006-2016
(2017). She has also coordinated several poetry anthologies. She is a
Professor of Business Administration in Secondary Education and holds a
Doctorate in Applied Economics besides a Master´s degree in “Fiscal
Consulting” from the GADE Business School, Madrid.