A Poem For Today - I Have Walked Along Many Roads - He Andado Muchos Caminos

[Ken Dickinson]

I Have Walked Along Many Roads 

I have walked along many roads,

and opened paths through brush,

I have sailed over a hundred seas

and tied up on a hundred shores.

Everywhere I’ve gone I’ve seen

excursions of sadness,

angry and melancholy

drunkards with black shadows,

and academics in offstage clothes

who watch, say nothing, and think

they know, because they do not drink wine

in the ordinary bars.

Evil men who walk around

polluting the earth. . .

And everywhere I’ve been I’ve seen

men who dance and play,

when they can, and work

the few inches of ground they have.

If they turn up somewhere,

they never ask where they are.

When they take trips, they ride

on the backs of old mules.

They don’t know how to hurry,

not even on holidays.

They drink wine, if there is some,

if not, cool water.

These men are the good ones,

who love, work, walk and dream.

And on a day no different from the rest

they lie down beneath the earth.

- Antonio Machado

         (translated by Robert Bly)

He Andado Muchos Caminos

He andado muchos caminos,
he abierto muchas veredas;
he navegado en cien mares,
y atracado en cien riberas.

En todas partes he visto
caravanas de tristeza,
soberbios y melancólicos
borrachos de sombra negra,

y pedantones al paño
que miran, callan, y piensan
que saben, porque no beben
el vino de las tabernas.

Mala gente que camina
y va apestando la tierra…

Y en todas partes he visto
gentes que danzan o juegan,
cuando pueden, y laboran
sus cuatro palmos de tierra.

Nunca, si llegan a un sitio,
preguntan a dónde llegan.
Cuando caminan, cabalgan
a lomos de mula vieja,

y no conocen la prisa
ni aun en los días de fiesta.
Donde hay vino, beben vino;
donde no hay vino, agua fresca.

Son buenas gentes que viven,
laboran, pasan y sueñan,
y en un día como tantos,
descansan bajo la tierra.

Sent from my iPhone

[Jai Conley]

Estupendo!

Mil de gracias.

Jai

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[Trudi Richards]

What a beauty. Thanks Ken
hugs
Trudi

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Ken Dickinson <kdick...@aol.com> wrote:

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"The sacred is within us and nothing bad can happen in the search for the profound and the unnameable..."
- Silo, 2004

"Lying on one's back, legs flailing,

Is temporary, and not, as some imagine

Fundamental failure or

Even such a bad thing."

 - Jennifer Gresham

[Eugenia Leftwich]

A friend suggested some surprisingly deft alterations to this lovely translation.