Wednesday, March 30, 2022

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: A WIDOW'S LAMENT IN SPRINGTIME

Sorrow is my own yard
where the new grass
flames as it has flamed
often before but not
with the cold fire
that closes round me this year.

Thirty five years
I lived with my husband.

The plum tree is white today
with masses of flowers.
Masses of flowers
load the cherry branches
and color some bushes
yellow and some red...

But the grief in my heart
is stronger than they,

for though they were my joy
formerly, today I notice them
and turn away forgetting.

Today my son told me
that in the meadows,
at the edge of the heavy woods
in the distance, he saw
trees of white flowers.
I feel that I would like
to go there
and fall into those flowers
and sink into the marsh near them
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EL LAMENTO DE UNA VIUDA EN LA PRIMAVERA
Por William Carlos Williams

La tristeza ahora llena mi jardín
donde veía las nuevas flores
coloridas como llamas
y prendidas como lumbre 

Ahora las miro con un fuego frío
que encierra mi alma esta primavera.

Treinta y cinco años
Viví con mi esposo.

El ciruelo es blanco hoy
con masas de flores
Masas de flores
cargan las ramas de un cerezo
y colorean algunos arbustos
amarillo y algo rojo

Pero el dolor en mi corazón
es más fuerte que ellos
porque aunque antes fueran mi alegría
Hoy los noto
y me alejo olvidando.

Hoy mi hijo me dijo
que en los prados
al borde del bosque oscuro
a lo lejos vio
Árboles de flores blancas.

Siento que me gustaría
ir allá
y caer en esas flores
y hundirme en el pantano entre ellos.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Now that's poetry.

beats yours.


Anonymous said...

Man, get some news. What is this - a McAllen blog?

Anonymous said...

Lament this! Give back the lands taken by gringo. Sent them to trial for murder. They lynched many Hispanics and took their lands. Killings, hangings, torture not only the men but their children and the women. Texas rangers were the support team of these murderers.

Now they have roads, streets, schools, towns and lands named after these thieves, murderers and cowards.

Anonymous said...

you a widower, Montoya?

must be.


Anonymous said...

Beautiful white dogwood tree.
Ann magnolia tree is just as pretty.

rita