Confidencias del corazón
Poetry is born from silence, longing, and memory. For Carlos Mavila V. A., it is also testimony—a way of transforming lived experience into words that heal, illuminate, and endure.
With Confidencias del corazón, the second volume in the Alma Poética series, Carlos opens his world of verses to readers everywhere. Written over decades, this collection gathers seventy-six poems that chart the emotional arc of a heart that has loved, lost, and found itself again.
about the author
Carlos Mavila V. A. – A Poetic Witness
“For me, poetry has always been a mirror, a refuge, and an offering. It is the language that binds me to life, to woman as essence, and to the memory that never fades.”
Carlos Mavila Velarde Álvarez is a Latin American poet whose voice blends the intimacy of personal confession with the universality of myth and metaphor. Born with a natural sensitivity to words and images, he discovered early that poetry was more than expression—it was survival, memory, and meaning.
His literary career is framed by the Alma Poética series, an ongoing body of work dedicated to exploring love, womanhood, and transcendence. With Confidencias del corazón, he takes a bold step by compiling decades of poetry into a unified manuscript. The result is a lyrical autobiography, written not in prose but in verse.
about the book
Confidencias del corazón – Alma Poética, Volume II
“A collection of poems that journeys from the first glow of desire to the serenity of mature love. Seventy-six confidences that reveal not only the story of a man, but the truth of the human heart.”
Confidencias del corazón is a book that blurs the line between poetry and narrative. Each of its seventy-six poems was written as an individual piece, yet together they create a lyrical arc that mirrors the stages of human love.
The Arc of the Collection
- Enchantment & Rescue: The opening poems describe love as a force of salvation—a passion that rescues the speaker from despair and gives new meaning to life.
- Fusion & Transformation: Lovers are depicted as elements of nature—water and fire, lilies and birds, a dragonfly born of light—symbolizing the sacred transformation of union.
- Absence & Silence: The middle section confronts separation and solitude. Distance, waiting, and silence become characters in themselves, testing the strength of love.
- Reconciliation & Maturity: The closing verses return to tenderness and clarity, presenting love not as fantasy, but as the recognition of the human being behind the mystery of Woman.