I have old women's secrets now / That had those of the young; / XXX tells me what I dared not think / When my blood was strong, / And what had drowned a lover once / Sounds like an old song. / How such a man pleased women most / Of all that are gone, / How such a pair loved many years / And such a pair but one, / Stories of the bed of straw / Or the bed of down.
Because of a few songs
ResponderEliminarWherein I spoke of their mystery,
Women have been
Exceptionally kind
to my old age.
They make a secret place
In their busy lives
And they take me there.
They become naked
In their different ways
and they say,
"Look at me, Leonard
Look at me one last time."
Then they bend over the bed
And cover me up
Like a baby that is shivering.
Because of,
Leonard Cohen
De las viejas, no? De las viejas damas...
ResponderEliminarA Esther:
ResponderEliminarIda y vuelta : de las islas remotas a este llano
Accede al trasvase del denso fluido
Sin ton ni son desmadejando un hilo
Del cimiento duro al cielo vano
La persistencia del vahído
engrana edades de voces rotas
saludan más las fuertes notas
los versos de Sam de Dios al río ( lío)
Insoportable lema, audaz sonido
Extrañas relaciones, postreras cotas
Despide Yeats capaz ruido.
----El destructor de Domingos.-----
Recomiendo:
ResponderEliminarLA TORRE; W.B. Yeats; edición bilingüe; traducción y prólogo de Carlos Jiménez Arribas; DVD Ediciones; Barcelona; 2004.
Though Marg'ry is stricken dumb
ResponderEliminarIf thrown in Madge's way,
We three make up a solitude;
For none alive today
Can know the stories that we know
Or say the things we say:
How such a man pleased women most
Of all that are gone,
How such a pair loved many years
And such a pair but one,
Stories of the bed of straw
Or the bed of down.
Versión libre-
ResponderEliminarMis cincuenta años hicieron el curso
así solo me senté
en un hormiguero de Londres potencial
con un libro abierto y una taza vacía
en la mesa de mármol ( favorito).
Y mientras madriguera y calle contemplaba
la fusión lloró
y por veinte minutos más o menos
mis manos temblaron.