Federico García Lorca: Peace

Federico García Lorca
(1898-1936)

Poetry on Peace

Federico García Lorca:

Song of the Motionless Gardener (1921)

Edited by Peter Y. Chou
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SONG OF THE MOTIONLESS GARDENER

What you wouldnt have suspected
lives & trembles in the air.

Those treasures of the day
you keep just out of reach.

These come & go in truckloads
but no one stops to see them.

Banged up they come but virgin,
& gone back to seed they leave.

Things speak to you but no one
bothers to stop & listen.

The world's waterspout of
objects, various & steady.

Those tresures of the day
you keeep just out of reach.

The hot rush of your blood
drowning the virgin silence.

But the two good eyes you have
would draw you to the source.

Those treasures of the day
you keep just out of reach.

What you wouldn't have suspected
lives & trembles in the air.

The garden joined together
by its putrefying perfumes.

Every leaf inside it dreaming
a different kind of dream.

Federico García Lorca (1898-1936),
Canción del jardiner inmóvil
(from Suites translated by Jerome Rothenberg)
The Poetical Works of Federico García Lorca
(Edited by Christopher Maurer), Volume III
Farrar Straus Giroux, NY, 1995, pp. 104-107