Poem

Last Friday my students had a poetry party to read the odes that they had written in the style of Pablo Neruda.  In the process of planning the party, my students asked that I share an ode as well...so here it is, my first attempt at Spanish poetry. :-)  (I've translated it into English below, and I apologize for the lack of accent marks.  I still haven't figured out how to make those with my computer.)

Oda a los sueños perdidos

En la madrugada

Acostada en la cama

Telarañas de memorias, semi-desconocidas

desvaneciendo, casi recordado

desapareciendo en las esquinas

calladas, tranquilas, olvidadas...

desapareciendo en los abismos

de la mente

Mi mente, mi misterio

Huyendo a la vez a un lugar

escondido

Solo la memoria de una

emocion, sentimiento

Un recuerdo por un momento

y se fue, y ya no mas

 

 

Ode to lost dreams

At dawn

Laying in my bed

Spiderwebs of memories, partially unknown

fading, almost remembered

disappearing in corners

quiet, tranquil, forgotten...

disappearing in the chasms

of my mind

My mind, my mystery

Fleeing all at once to a hidden

place

Only the memory of an

emotion, a feeling

A memory for a moment

And then it goes, and is no more