Astera Marcos

An Ode to Sefarad

By Astera Marcos April 7, 2025

Note: These poems are in the same order in all languages, Ladino transliteration, Ladino, and English.  It was in the author’s best intention to capture the musicality, tone, and rhyme of each poem in the Ladino-English translation.   The Sea (לה מאר)           la mar ke me yama, viene de aze…

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An image of two women against a backdrop of three arches, with orange trees behind them. Once of them is wearing a dark purple dress and gold jewelry, with olive skin. The other is wearing a white long sleeve shirt with short brown curly hair. They are sitting with legs intertwined, touching each other's leg and face.

mi kerida / My Beloved

By Astera Marcos June 27, 2023

“My beloved’s hair is the color of coffee /
And she drinks from the finest waters in Sefarad.”

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