Juan Ramon Jimenez

SEAS

I feel this barque of mine
has struck against something there in the depths,
something vast.

And yet nothing
happens! Nothing...Quietude...Waves...
-Nothing happens; or has all come to pass
and we are now, tranquil, within the new?

(translated by Eleanor M. Turnbull)

MARES


siento que el barco mio
ha tropezado, alla en el fondo,
con algo grande.

Y nada
sucede! Nada...Quietud...Olas....
-Nada sucede; o es que la sucedido todo,
y estamos ya, tranquilos, en lo nuevo?-