El viento en la isla
El viento es un caballo:
óyelo cómo corre
por el mar, por el cielo.
Quiere llevarme: escucha
cómo recorre el mundo
para llevarme lejos.
Escóndeme en tus brazos
por esta noche sola,
mientras la lluvia rompe
contra el mar y la tierra
su boca innumerable.
Escucha cómo el viento
me llama galopando
para llevarme lejos.
Con tu frente en mi frente,
con tu boca en mi boca,
atados nuestros cuerpos
al amor que nos quema,
deja que el viento pase
sin que pueda llevarme.
Deja que el viento corra
Coronado de espurra,
que me llame y me busque
galopando en la sombra,
mientras yo, sumergido
baja tus grandes ojos,
por esta noche sola
descansarmé, amor mío.
*
The Wind in the Island
The wind is a stallion:
hear how he runs
over the ocean, the sky.
He wants to take me: listen
how he roves the world
to take me far away.
Conceal me in your arms
for this night only,
while the rain breaks
against the ocean and the rocks
its innumerable mouth.
Listen how the wind
calls me, galloping
to take me far away.
With your forehead to my forehead,
your mouth to my mouth,
our bodies tied
to love that burns,
let the wind pass over
unable to take me.
Let the wind run
crowned by seaspray,
call and search for me,
galloping in shadow,
while I, submerged
beneath your huge eyes
for this night only,
will rest, my love.
*
Hello Friends —
Today’s poem is by Pablo Neruda, from Los Versos del Capitan (1952). Today is Cathy & I’s sixth anniversary: Muchas gracias para seis años de noches submergido baja tus grandes ojos, amor mío.
April is National Poetry Month, and I am celebrating by emailing out my own eclectic selection of one poem per day for the duration of the month. If you wish to be unsubscribed from this Poem-a-Day email list at any time, please reply to this email with a friendly unsubscribe request (preferably in heroic couplet form). You may also request to add a consenting friend to the list, or even nominate a poem.
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Enjoy.
Ellen