Lorca Translations Iii
...Lorca Translations III
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright and theater director. He was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War and his body was never found.
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Categories:
bullfighters, bird, dark, death, light,
Form: Free verse
Lorca Translations Ii
...Lorca Translations II
Canción del jinete (“Song of the Rider”)
by Federico Garcia Lorca
translation by Michael R. Burch
Cordoba. Distant and lone.
Black pony, big moon,
olives in my saddleb...
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Categories:
bullfighters, death, love, moon, spanish,
Form: Free verse
Horses
...Horses! Poor victims of man's inhumanity.
How many had their lives destroyed without pity?
Drag carts in dark mines without seeing the daylight.
Charge in battles, inhale gases, die in a fight.
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Categories:
bullfighters, animal, horse, judgement,
Form: Alexandrine
For Papa
...Poets and Bullfighters,
death to uncage
The truth between horns,
eternity’s rage
One thrust entitled,
mortality damned
Life springs eternal
—the sword leaves your hand
(Villanova Penn...
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Categories:
bullfighters, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
For Papa
...Poets and Bullfighters,
death to uncage
The truth between horns,
eternity’s rage
One thrust entitled,
mortality damned
Life springs eternal,
—the sword leaves your hand
(Vill...
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Categories:
bullfighters, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
A Vacation Where History Was Made
...My lifetime dream hasn't been realized yet;
I like to travel to Europe where History was made.
I will start with the glorious city of Rome
with its ancient monuments which still fascinate!
I li...
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Categories:
bullfighters, art, beautiful, dream, french,
Form: Rhyme
One Hundred Laments
...Trading the sweetness, a rainbow
on icefalls, you will come back on rocks
and drink the elixir of death.
A fantastic dream of soap bubbles in a tumbler,
ejecting the inky grief on the transparent gla...
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Categories:
bullfighters, art,
Form: ABC
Gamblers All
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Gamblers All
by Rick Rucker
Some gamble big, others small,
I can assure you, we're gamblers all.
Some bet it all on the roll of dice,
Others asking out a Woman, nice.
Bullfi...
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Categories:
bullfighters, life
Form: Couplet
One Hundred Laments
...Trading the sweetness, a rainbow
on icefalls, you will come back on rocks
and drink the elixir of death.
A fantastic dream of soap bubbles in a tumbler,
ejecting the inky grief on the transparent...
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Categories:
bullfighters, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?