Juan Ramón Jiménez -Mares-

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?-


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