Carissima In Deliciis

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Published Saturday, May 30, 2009 by O. Elias Lira | E-mail this post

Vision from the Blue Plane-Window
by Ernesto Cardenal

[translated by Jonathan Cohen]

In the round little window, everything is blue,
land bluish, blue-green, blue

(and sky)

everything is blue

blue lakes and lagoons

blue volcanoes
while farther off the land looks bluer
blue islands in a blue lake.
This is the face of the land liberated.
And where all the people fought, I think:

for love!

To live without the hatred

of exploitation.

To love one another in a beautiful land
so beautiful, not only in itself

but because of the people in it,

above all because of the people in it.
That's why God gave us this beautiful land
for the society in it.
And in all those blue places they fought, suffered

for a society of love

here in this land.

One patch of blue looks more intense...
And I thought I was seeing the sites of all the battles there,
and of all the deaths,
behind that small, round windowpane

blue

all the shades of blue.