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[mamculuna]

Briefly: I'm doing lots of great things, including going to The Lion King (with wonderful Julie Taymor masks and puppets) and to Howl's Moving Castle, both of which I loved. And an incredible meal at Russian Tea Time with many delicious kinds of finely chopped vegetable salads and spicy lamb, and coriander flavored vodka. And an all-weekend yoga workshop that pushed me way beyond where I ever thought I could go, in mind and body. Here's a poem I heard there:

Last Night, As I Was Sleeping

by Antonio Machado

Last night, as I was sleeping,
I dreamt--marvellous error!--
that a spring was breaking
out in my heart
I said: Along which secret aqueduct,
Oh water, are you coming to me,
water of a new life
that I have never drunk?

Last night, as I was sleeping,
I dreamt--marvellous error!--
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures.

Last night, as I was sleeping,
I dreamt--marvellous error!--
that a fiery sun was giving
light inside my heart.
It was fiery because I felt
warmth as from a hearth,
and sun because it gave light
and brought tears to my eyes.

Last night, as I slept,
I dreamt--marvellous error!--
that it was God I had
here inside my heart.

--translated by Robert Bly





Anoche cuando dormía


Anoche cuando dormía
soñé ¡bendita ilusión!
que una fontana fluía
dentro de mi corazón.
Dí: ¿por qué acequia escondida,
agua, vienes hasta mí,
manantial de nueva vida
en donde nunca bebí?

Anoche cuando dormía
soñé ¡bendita ilusión!
que una colmena tenía
dentro de mi corazón;
y las doradas abejas
iban fabricando en él,
con las amarguras viejas,
blanca cera y dulce miel.


Anoche cuando dormía
soñé ¡bendita ilusión!
que un ardiente sol lucía
dentro de mi corazón.
Era ardiente porque daba
calores de rojo hogar,
y era sol porque alumbraba
y porque hacía llorar.


Anoche cuando dormía
soñé ¡bendita ilusión!
que era Dios lo que tenía
dentro de mi corazón.



Antonio Machado

Comments

Re: that's 1 of my favorite poems!

[anomster.livejournal.com]

I'm not a native speaker, but I took Spanish my last 4 years of public school (the US meaning of public school) & then majored in it. I'm fairly fluent in it but a little rusty. I thought I'd've learned several more languages by now, but somehow once you're out of school you just don't have as much time.

The codes I've been using for accented letters are a different set (except that for some reason the upside-down ! code is the same). For example, the a w/acute accent is alt + 0225 (& yes, that's on the numpad). But I'll paste the list in after the one I've been using for other applications--thanks! Oh...I just used the link you posted, & it's the set I'm familiar with. And this is strange: I tried a couple of the ones from your list, & I don't get those characters in the message window, but they show up as boxes in the preview. Wonder why it works that way.

Re: that's 1 of my favorite poems!

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Do you use Windows XP? Maybe the OS affects it. I think the list I sent may be old. But I have XP.

Re: that's 1 of my favorite poems!

[anomster.livejournal.com]

I'm nowhere near XP, but I doubt that has anything to do w/it. If it were the OS, I'd expect it to be a generalized problem, so the codes I've been using for accents on the ATPo board wouldn't work there either.