Each afternoon in Granada,
each afternoon, a child dies.
Each afternoon the water sits down
and chats with its companions.
The dead wear mossy wings.
The cloudy wind and the clear wind
are two pheasants in flight through the towers,
and the day is a wounded boy.
Not a flicker of lark was left in the air
when I met you in the caverns of wine.
Not the crumb of a cloud was left in the ground
when you were drowned in the river.
A giant of water fell down over the hills,
and the valley was tumbling with lilies and dogs.
In my hands' violet shadow, your body,
dead on the bank, was an angel of coldness.
Gacela Of The Dead Child
Federico Garca-a Lorca
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Poem topics: angel, child, cloud, river, shadow, flight, clear, violet, valley, body, Valentine's Day, water, wind, I love you, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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