Puerto de Alejandría / Let's Make a Collage - A Contest for All Creatives on Hive - Round 216
Friends of this fabulous contest, I leave you my participation in the Round 216 of Let's Make a Collage, to which the @lmac team has invited us to play with the beautiful photography that, as it does every week, @shaka offers us.
Amigos de este fabuloso concurso, les dejo mi participación en el Round 216 de Let's Make a Collage, al cual nos ha invitado el equipo @lmac para que juguemos con la hermosa fotografía que, como lo hace cada semana, @shaka nos ofrece.
Puerto de Alejandría
Los dioses abandonan a Antonio
Cuando, de pronto, se deje oír a medianoche
el paso de una invisible comitiva,
con músicas sublimes y con voces,
tu suerte que cede, tus obras
malogradas, los planes de tu vida
que acabaron todos en quimeras, será inútil llorarlos.
Como el que está listo ya hace tiempo, como el valiente,
despídete de ella, de la Alejandría que se marcha.
Sobre todo, no te engañes, no digas que fue
un sueño, ni que se confundieron tus oídos;
no te rebajes a tan vanas esperanzas.
Como el que está listo ya hace tiempo, como el valiente,
como te corresponde por haber merecido tal ciudad,
quédate firme frente a la ventana
y escucha con emoción
—no con las súplicas y las quejas de los cobardes—
el rumor, cual un último deleite,
los sublimes instrumentos de la secreta comitiva,
y despídete de ella, de la Alejandría que pierdes.
- Constantine P. Cavafy (1911).
The Gods abandons Anthony
When suddenly, at midnight, you hear
an invisible procession going by
with exquisite music, voices,
don't mourn your luck that's failing now,
work gone wrong, your plans
all proving deceptive- don't mourn them uselessly.
As one long prepared, and graced with courage,
say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving.
Above all, don't fool yourself, don't say
it was a dream, your ears deceived you:
don't degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.
As one long prepared, and graced with courage,
as is right for you who were given this kind of city,
go firmly to the window
and listen with deep emotion, but not
with the whining, the pleas of a coward;
listen -your final delectation- to the voices,
to the exquisite music of that strange procession,
and say goodbye to her, to the Alexandria you are losing.
- Constantine P. Cavafy (1911).
Plantilla original
de @shaka👇
Imagen de https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery
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Contributed to the #LIL by @anibal-aa.
Contributed to the #LIL by @anibal-aa.
Contributed to the #LIL by @quantumg.
Contributed to the #LIL by @quantumg.
Keep up the good work. 👏
You are loved. 🤗 + u deserve the best. 💪
Curated by Mystic artist Gudasol
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