El Niño entered as roses. Oh precious promises,
oh precious pieces of rose petals.
You are my alphabet when all is said and ah…
You are my champagne. When I die you disappear.
Transliteration of Pablo Nerduda’s “Ode With a Lament”
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wayne wrote @
nicely done….I tried transliteration with a few of Neruda’s poems..and I did not think anything worked….I looked back at Ode With A Lament ansd couldnt come up with much…soo congrats to what u have done with it….thanks for this
Gorgeous! Sounds are gorgeous. So are images. So is sentiment. I know I shouldn’t, but I read this poem as though it started, “The child entered as roses.”