November 19, 2009 at 14:16
· Filed under Poesía/Poetry
Resuelta en polvo ya, mas siempre hermosa,
sin dejarme vivir, vive serena
aquella luz, que fue mi gloria y pena,
y me hace guerra, cuando en paz reposa.
Tan vivo está el jazmín, la pura rosa,
que, blandamente ardiendo en azucena,
me abrasa el alma de memorias llena:
ceniza de su fénix amorosa.
¡Oh memoria cruel de mis enojos!,
¿qué honor te puede dar mi sentimiento,
en polvo convertidos sus despojos?
Permíteme callar sólo un momento:
que ya no tienen lágrimas mis ojos…
ni conceptos de amor mi pensamiento.
Once upon a time I thought
“What’s the one thing I haven’t got?”
There’s not a single thing in this world I couldn’t buy
That’s when a gentleman caught my eye
Once or twice we went around
But now I’ll tell you the thing I’ve found
You shouldn’t make your move until you know the price
Because gentlemen aren’t nice
Just because I won’t agree to take his arm
And I occasionally forget his name
He likes to call inclemency what I call charm
But I know they’re all the same
I think I’ve realized my first mistake
When he cried that his heart would break
I would have thought that I was worth the sacrifice
But gentlemen aren’t nice
Just because I leave him all alone for days
And go about with others of his kind
He dares complain about my evil ways
And drive me out of my — out of my mind
What I relate is hard to bear
I only endure it so that I might spare you ladies
I’m not known for my good advice
But gentlemen aren’t
So agreeable
Love ain’t a paradise
And if I told you once, I won’t tell you twice
Gentlemen aren’t nice
February 18, 2009 at 11:00
· Filed under Poesía/Poetry
(para traducción lean más abajo )
Shadow-bride John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)
There was a man who dwelt alone,
as day and night went past
he sat as still as carven stone,
and yet no shadow cast.
The white owls perched upon his head
beneath the winter moon;
they wiped their beaks and thought him dead
under the stars of June.
There came a lady clad in grey
in the twilight shining:
one moment she would stand and stay,
her hair with flowers entwining.
He woke, as had he sprung of stone,
and broke the spell that bound him;
he clasped her fast, both flesh and bone,
and wrapped her shadow round him.
There never more she walks her ways
by sun or moon or star;
she dwells below where neither days
nor any nights there are.
But once a year when caverns yawn
and hidden things awake,
they dance together then till dawn
and a single shadow make.
La novia sombra
Había un hombre que vivía solo,
Mientras pasaban el día y la noche
Se sentaba tan quieto como una piedra esculpida,
Y no arrojaba ninguna sombra.
Los búhos blancos se posaban sobre su cabeza
Bajo la luna de invierno;
Se frotaban los picos y lo creían muerto
Bajo las estrellas de junio.
Llegó una dama vestida de gris
Brillando en el crepúsculo:
Permaneció quieta un instante,
Con flores entrelazadas en su pelo.
Él despertó, como surgido de la piedra,
Y rompióse el hechizo que lo retenía;
La abrazó deprisa, ambos de carne y hueso,
Y ella arremolinó su sombra alrededor de él.
Ella no anda más por sus caminos
Con sol, luna o estrellas;
Mora abajo, donde no existe día
Ni noche alguna.
Pero una vez al año, cuando bostezan las cavernas
Y despiertan las cosas ocultas,
Bailan juntos hasta el amanecer
Y no proyectan más que una sombra.
February 18, 2009 at 10:54
· Filed under Poesía/Poetry
(I don’t know who the author is, it isn’t mine!)
Fairy Tale
Fairy Tale
Love so wicked
Life so frail
In a hollow
Misty town
Where eyes whisper sorrows
And princes do frown
There is a fair
Young beauty
Jealous lips flair
When she walks by this cutie
Knights slay evils
And lovers kiss dragons
In that misty
One meal town
Wolves stay thirsty
And ghosts do frown
Fairy Tale
Fairy Tale
Love so wicked
A broken hearts lost trail
A stranger arrives
On a cold winter day
Young girl neighs
As her brothers go to play
The night air is calm
And the town so still
She removes her gods charm
As coyotes move in for a kill
He plays a chance this stranger
Makes her dance
As devils sense danger
” I love you” slips from her lips
”this is all I ever want too”
He says with her legs around his hips
Saints sin on pilgrimage
And a priest weds a witch
When this stranger
Kisses young girls pleasure tear
Night starts to end
In the town with this girl so fair
Fairy Tale
Fairy Tale
Love so wicked
And gods go fail
His hand plays with her hair
As she tells him
”I wish you’ll always stay here”
”can you renounce the fate god has already put”
He says, bows down and kisses her foot
The stranger is kneeling on the floor
The girls jumps back and looks at the charm near her door
A sad sentimentality shows in his smile
Dishonored and displeased with his unholy denial
She takes two steps away
And three steps closer
Dawn starts to breakIn this town where lovers don’t fear
Fairy Tale
Fairy Tale
Love so wicked
In tears hopeless do sail
Stranger leaves town
Without looking back
Angels start to drown
As demons look in between the crack
Young girl so fair
Weeps all alone
She sings in there
About lover Lucifer who sits on his throne
In this misty town
God does forsake
Keepers of heaven start to frown
As Love hell’s bound once did break.
Fairy Tale
Fairy tale
In this misty town
Sings a young girl so fair
Wishing the devil was forever so near
Fairy tale
Fairy tale
It won’t end
For the soul of his lover
Lucifer many innocents to God did send
And Fairy tale
Fairy tale
Please do remember
Even for a night
The devil thanked God, that 24th December.