Federico Garca-a Lorca Water Poems

• 1. Gacela Of The Dark Death
  I want to sleep the dream of the apples,
  to withdraw from the tumult of cemetries.
  I want to sleep the dream of that child
  who wanted to cut his heart on the high seas.
  ...
• 2. Ode To Salvador Dali
  A rose in the high garden you desire.
  A wheel in the pure syntax of steel.
  The mountain stripped bare of Impressionist fog,
  The grays watching over the last balustrades.
  ...
• 3. Serenata
  The night soaks itself
  along the shore of the river
  and in Lolita's breasts
  the branches die of love.
  ...
• 4. Gacela Of The Dead Child
  Each afternoon in Granada,
  each afternoon, a child dies.
  Each afternoon the water sits down
  and chats with its companions.
  ...
• 5. The Guitar-la Guitarra
  The weeping of the guitar
  begins.
  The goblets of dawn
  are smashed.
  ...
• 6. Debussy [with English Translation]
  Mi sombra va silenciosa
  por el agua de la acecia.
  
  Por mi sombra están las ranas
  ...
• 7. The Gypsy And The Wind
  Playing her parchment moon
  Precosia comes
  along a watery path of laurels and crystal lights.
  The starless silence, fleeing
  ...
• 8. The Little Mute Boy
  The litle boy was looking for his voice.
  (The King of the crickets had it.)
  In a drop of water
  the little boy was looking for his voice.
  ...

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