Oceans, what happens when we pause

[Lisa Walford]

Juan Ramon Jimenez (1818 - 1958) won the Nobel Peace Prize for in 1956. Born in Spain, he fled his native Andalucía at the onset of the Spanish Civil war and relocated, ultimately, to Puerto Rico.  He was a prolific writer through out life,  his earlier works building upon the avant-garde movement of the first decade of the 20th century. This poem represents his later inspirations, having wrestled with depression and perhaps influenced through his wife's  (Zenobia Camprubi)  passion for translating the mystic work of  Rabindranath Tagore. 

Poets of this era were influenced by what was called "night intelligence" - think Jung - and an awakening to the omniscient in plants and animals, a nominal experience with the world.   

I find this poem so rich... 

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Oceans

I have a feeling that my boat

has struck, down there in the depths,

against a great thing.

        And nothing

happens! Nothing.... Silence... Waves

-----Nothing happens? Or has evrything happened, 

and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?