"Meciendo"
por Gabriela Mistral of Chile (Desolación -1922)
A poem in Spanish
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recited by and translated by Patricia L. Cummings
Meciendo
El mar sus millares de olas
mece divino
Oyendo a los mares amantes
mezo a mi niño.
El viento errabundo en la noche
mece los trigos
Oyendo a los vientos amantes
mezo a mi niño.
Dios Padre sus miles de mundos
mece sin ruido.
Sintiendo su mano en la sombra
mezo a mi niño.
Jim and Pat Cummings with great niece, Rachel, in 1993.
Jim Cummings rocking step-granddaughter, Hannah Kirstene, at six weeks old (August 2009).
Rocking
by Gabriela Mistral, post modernist Latin American poet
translated by Patricia L. Cummings
The sea, her thousands of waves
rock divinely.
Hearing the loving seas
I rock my child.
The wandering wind in the night
rocks the wheat.
Hearing the loving winds
I rock my child.
Father God, your thousands of worlds
rock without sound.
Feeling your hand in the shadows
I rock my child.
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