One Spanish poem a day 1 (English/Spanish) - Youth/Juventud - Pablo Neruda
This is the first of a hopefully long series of daily posts with a Spanish poem in its original language and translated into English.
The objective of this initiative is to foster the growth of the Spanish speaking community in Steemit and bring high quality Spanish to Steemers all over the world.
Juventud
Un perfume como una ácida espada
de ciruelas en un camino,
los besos del azúcar en los dientes,
las gotas vitales resbalando en los dedos,
la dulce pulpa erótica,
las eras, los pajares, los incitantes
sitios secretos de las casas anchas,
los colchones dormidos en el pasado, el agrio valle verde
mirado desde arriba, desde el vidrio escondido:
toda la adolescencia mojándose y ardiendo
como una lámpara derribada en la lluvia.
Youth
Acid and sword blade: the fragrance
of plum in the pathways:
tooth's sweetmeat of kisses,
power and spilth on the fingers,
the yielding erotic of pulps,
hayricks and threshing floors, clandestine
recesses that tempt through the vastness of houses;
bolsters asleep in the past, the bitter green valley,
seen from above, from the glasses' concealment;
and drenching and flaring by turns, adolescence
like a lamp overturned in the rain.
"Juventud" from Canto General, 1950
Published in Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
Edited and translated by Ben Belitt
Copyright © Fundación Pablo Neruda, 2009+
Cracking idea! Please keep doing this, so that we can appreciate good poetry and brush up on our Spanish at the same time! :-)
Cg
Thank you for your comment... I'm glad you like it... I posted one of my favorite poems from Rudyard Kliping yesterday "IF" and it got me thinking... and as of there I got here about promoting Spanish and posting quality content.
Would it make sense to you if the series also included the reverse? This is, an English poem translated into Spanish as part of this series!
Great idea but I would like to see you adding some own content to the post: why you like the poem? etc. Otherwise could only be seen as copy paste
Agree! :)