Thursday, July 8, 2010

Neruda- VI Stones of the Sky

VI

Busqué una gota de agua,

De miel, de sangre: todo

Se ha convertido en pierda,

En pierda pura:

Lágrima o lluvia, el agua

Sigue andando en la pierda:

Sangre o miel caminaron

Hasta el ágata.

El río despedaza

Su luz liquida,

Cae

El vino a la copa,

Arde su suave fuego

En la copa de piedra:

El tiempo corre

Que lleva graves muertos,

Árboles despojados

De susurro, toso

Corre facia la dureza:

Se irá el polvo, el otoño,

Los libros y las hojas,

El agua: entonces


Brillará el sol de piedra

Sobre todas las piedras


I looked for a drop of water,

Of honey, of blood: everything

 Had been turned into stone,

Into sheer rock:

Teardrop or raindrop, the water

Kept on running into stone:

Honey and blood approached

The agate.

The river churns its flowing

Light to shreds: wine

Falls

Into the cup

Its soft flame glowing

Into the stone chalice

Time runs

Like a broken river

Dragging the heavy dead,

Trees uprooted

From their whisper, everything

Is racing toward hardness:

Dust and autumn,

Hooks and trees,

Water will pass away:

 

Then a mineral sun will gleam

over all these stones.

 



1 comment:

  1. The date was September 11,2001 in the Twin Towers. The night was cold and the city was loud as the city usually is. The time is 4:23 and then all of the sudden the whole city heres a plane come in at zooming speeds right at th Twin Towers and then people relize that the planes were terrorist's planes. The whole city was scared as they felt this would be one of the last seeing of the Twin Towers. Then, all of the sudden 2 more planes come from the other side of the city. Those planes were American's planes and in them was Zach Hamlet (NAVY SEAL) and his best friend Connor Defreece,( former NFL player) as they approached the enemy planes and crashed together to save the city of New York, New York. Millions of the locals from Albany, and many other cities could here the devastating crash. Later, the people of New York gathered around the 4 planes. The terrorists were dead and the 2 American planes seem both dead. The mayor of New York approached the planes and opened the windows of the planes and saw Connor and Zach alive. This was a historical day for the U.S. and started a rebellion on Iraq. This was the start to 9-11-2001.

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