The Guitar by Federico García Lorca for National Poetry Month

[dragonyphoenix]

The Guitar by Federico García Lorca
Translated by Cola Franzen

The weeping of the guitar
begins.
The goblets of dawn
are smashed.
The weeping of the guitar
begins.
Useless
to silence it.
Impossible
to silence it.
It weeps monotonously
as water weeps
as the wind weeps
over snowfields.
Impossible
to silence it.
It weeps for distant
things.
Hot southern sands
yearning for white camellias.
Weeps arrow without target
evening without morning
and the first dead bird
on the branch.
Oh, guitar!
Heart mortally wounded
by five swords.

Comments

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

That sounds beautiful. I spent the evening watching the best version (Masterpiece theater) I've seen of Sense and Sensibility. I wish my Mom were still alive so I could share it with her; she'd have loved it.