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English version by
Robert Bly

Original Language
Spanish

Who Knows What is Going On

Themes

Dawn

Mountain

Rose

Sun

Recommended Books

	Invisible Reality, by Juan Ramon Jimenez / Translated by Antonio T. De Nicolas
	News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, Edited by Robert Bly
	Platery y yo / Platero and I, by Juan Ramon Jimenez / Translated by Antonio Frasconi
	Selected Writings of Juan Ramon Jimenez, by Juan Ramon Jimenez
	Time and Space: A Poetic Autobiography, by Juan Ramon Jimenez / Translated by Antonio T. De Nicolas

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     Who knows what is going on on the other side of each hour?

     How many times the sunrise was
there, behind a mountain!

     How many times the brilliant cloud piling up far off
was already a golden body full of thunder!

     This rose was poison.

     That sword gave life.

     I was thinking of a flowery meadow
at the end of a road,
and found myself in the slough.

     I was thinking of the greatness of what was human,
and found myself in the divine.

-- from The Winged Energy of Delight, Translated by Robert Bly

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