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Jorge Luis Borges

viernes, 25 de septiembre de 2009

Spring in the Southern Cone




Spring is like a perhaps hand

by e e cummings

Spring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully
out of Nowhere)arranging
a window,into which people look(while
people stare
arranging and changing placing
carefully there a strange
thing and a known thing here)and

changing everything carefully

spring is like a perhaps
Hand in a window
(carefully to
and fro moving New and
Old things,while
people stare carefully
moving a perhaps
fraction of flower here placing
an inch of air there)and

without breaking anything.



La Primavera es como un Quizás.
Mano que viene cuidadosamente de la Nada,
arreglando una ventana por la que la gente mira
mientras la gente observa,
arreglando y cambiando;
poniendo cuidadosamente allí una cosa insólita
y una cosa habitual aquí
y cambiando todo cuidadosamente.

la primavera es como un Quizás.
Una Mano en una ventana
cuidadosamente hacia y desde,
moviendo Nuevas y Viejas cosas,
mientras la gente observa cuidadosamente,
moviendo un quizas.
Pedazo de flor aquí,
poniendo una pizca de aire allá
y sin romper nada.
Thank you for contributing this beautiful poem, dear Vesna :-)

5 comentarios:

  1. Your post is breathtaking dear Silvia. I would love to come and visit your part of the world, especially in the Spring time. Vesna means La primavera:)

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  2. Dear Sylvia

    Thank you so much for this lovely, beautiful post! I have been looking at the slides for a while and enjoyed them so much! I noticed some of the shrubs with red or pink flowers. Are they azaleas? The Iguazu Falls are stunningly magnificent and at the same time very beautiful! I'd like to visit the falls someday.
    And thank you for an e e cummings' poem.
    Oh how unique and beautiful his words are!

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  3. Dear Vesna,

    You definitely MUST come down here! What a beautiful name you have... My second name is "Rosa", so I think we have another thing in common! :-)

    Dear Sapphire,

    Thank your for visiting my post and your beautiful words. I'm glad you enjoyed the pictures. Actually, the flowers are azaleas, which are very commonly found in our backyards and gardens. I have two of them myself, all in full bloom now, they are lovely. Some of the pictures are taken from a Japanese Garden we have in our city, one of the places I enjoy visiting most.

    I hope you both can come down and visit this part of the world soon!

    Biggest hugs to you both, my friends :-)

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  4. oh, my god! your country is so beautiful! the images are gorgeous, i am smitten! thank you for sharing all this lovely beauty with us, dearest silvia!
    and the e.e.cummings poem is perfect, what a delicate and sensitive phrasing, wonderful.

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  5. Thank you, sweet Zoe! The poem (and its translation into Spanish) are all due to our lovely Vesna. Thanks again, you make me so happy with your presence!!

    PS: I've posted another slide with pictures from other great places to visit in Argentina... just trying to help you make up your minds! ;-)

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