Two Spanish Poems
hermosa como la luna .
en la noche que brilla
brillante
viva
los ciervos pastan en los campos silenciosos
En las montañas hay nieve blanca
Translation
Beautiful like the moon
In the night shining
Brilliant
Alive
Deer graze in the silent fields
The mountains are white with snow
as arañas de los tejen telas hechas de la mañana del rocío
todo el día los pájaros se balancean como las hojas
en el árbol de la ventana
la hierba canta melodías en el viento
las flores recoger las mariposas
se acumulan las nubes el sol
por la noche el cartero pasa por su casa
y se olvida de salir de las cartas que nunca escribió
las arañas salen de su escondite
Por la noche
yo sueño de la seda como las hojas
envolver alrededor de mi sueño.
Translation
the spiders of the morning spin webs made of dew
all day the birds sway like leaves
on the tree by your window
the grass sings melodies in the wind
the flowers collect butterflies
the clouds gather up the sun
in the evening the postman walks by your house
and forgets to leave the letters i never wrote
the spiders come out of their hiding
at night
i dream of silk as the sheets
wrap around my sleep.
Comments
Fin (author) from Barstow on August 13, 2018:
thank you....i am trying but my skills are primitive and fleeting...i apprciate your nice words...
threekeys on August 13, 2018:
I loved the delicacy in imagery and feeling in your poems here Finn.
I also loved that you wrote them in both Spanish and English. While I have yet to learn the Spanish language I enjoyed having an attempt in speaking Spanish out aloud as I read through your poems. I would love it if you continued to write poetry in both Spanish and English:)
Fin (author) from Barstow on August 13, 2018:
thank you for your kind words
Elijah A Alexander Jr from Washington DC on August 13, 2018:
What an expressing of a sunset, the first poem, and a sunrise the second. Reminds me of my early childhood's first 8 years where I began studying the ecosystem that still has much hidden from me because of the shortness of my travels. The earth is vast and what we see alone, as those poems reveal, are so specular senes it's almost impossible to see them all in a single life and especially when we confined ourselves to a single place. But most of the time when we do travel we look only at the things man made and not the ecological system where each day there is change in one form or another that adds to its majesticness. Thanks you for expressing them.
Fin (author) from Barstow on August 13, 2018:
well thank you. i cannot really verify completely their accuracy as I am very limited in my spanish right now as well, but it was an attempt.
Louise Powles from Norfolk, England on August 13, 2018:
They are lovely poems. I love the Spanish language, it's so romantic. I have been trying to learn a few worlds in Spanish as my Mother lives there. Spain is a beautiful country.
