A Poem For Today - Archaic Torso of Apollo - Torso arcaico de Apolo

[KEN DICKINSON]



Inspired by Esteban Boasso

Archaic Torso of Apollo

We cannot know his legendary head

with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso

is still suffused with brilliance from inside,

like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,

gleams in all its power. Otherwise

the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could 

a smile run through the placid hips and thighs

to that dark center where procreation flared.

Otherwise this stone would seem defaced

beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders

and would not glisten like a wild beast's fur:

would not, from all the borders of itself,

burst like a star: for here there is no place

that does not see you. You must change your life.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Translated by Robert Bly

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Inspirado por Esteban Boasso

Torso Arcaico de Apolo

No conocíamos la cabeza increíble,

en la que maduraban sus ojos anchos. Pero incluso ahora

su torso brilla como un candelabro,

y allí su mirada, atenuada solo un poco,

se mantiene firme y brilla. Si no fuera así, el impulso

del pecho no podría cegarte, y esa sonrisa

en la ligera torsión de los lomos no correría

al centro, donde la procreación se encendió.

Entonces esta piedra estaría deformada y embotada

bajo la inmersión luminosa de los hombros.

No estaría reluciente como la piel de un león;

no estallaría desde todos los bordes

como una estrella. Porque no hay lugar aquí

que no te vea. Debes cambiar tu vida.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Traducido por Frank Beck

[MaryJo McReynolds]

Wow! Thank you, Ken, for this! 

MaryJo

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