Vales La Pena...

  Over at dversepoets.com today we are writing in a foreign language; my second language is Spanish and this is something written quite awhile ago.  At one time I was immersed in the Ecuadorian culture for awhile..I hope you enjoy it...poems always sound better to me in Espanol and as you can see use fewer words..

Vales La Pena
En tu lado del
continente hay lagunas inquietas,
bostezando,
esperando de ser
cruzadas
y puentes que solo
existen de donde saltar
me hablas en canto ..
como melodia del colobri
en tu voz de
setiembre
me hizo sentir de
duelo
y me prometiste que
bailemos bajo la lluvia
el olor del viento y
la neblina
entran cada oido
traje de luces y
piernas largas de avestruz
cruzadas y de goma
se levantaban al
ventricular,
senti un naufragio
me despierto
alzando mi brazo para
sellarte dentro de mi
pecho
agarro almuadas
vacias
donde estas? que has
hecho ?
te necesito, no
tierra ajena
el amo te alcanza y
vales la pena

Sometimes it's better to write in English first then Spanish...it did not translate as well as I thought..this is a better version..how it would sound in Spanish but many words are left out or "lost in translation"....

You Are Worthy

On your side of the continent there are lagoons, restless,
yawning,
waiting to be crossed ...
and bridges that exist only to jump from ...
I speak in song .. the humming bird's melody ...
in your voice of September ...
I felt grief
and you promised me a dance in the rain.

the smell of the wind and fog
enter each ear ...
(dress) suit of lights and long ostrich-like legs ...
cross and weather a hangover ...
rising all the way to the heart,
shipwrecked,
I awake ... raising my arm
to seal you inside my chest…(breast)
only to clutch empty pillows.

where are you? what have you done?
I need you, not a distant land …
my love reaches out for you …
because you are worth it.