I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me, so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
- Theodore Roethke
Foto: Bradley Wilson
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Saludos…
La imagen me parece que deja mucho a la imaginación. ¿cómo es que la chica camina sobre el agua? Una interpretación puede ser que somos como una gota de agua sobre la inmensidad del mundo. Las líneas me parecen muy bellas, aunque podría valer la pena una traducción para el público que no domine el inglés.
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Photograph originally by me, not Snuh:
http://jrandom.smugmug.com/Human-Primates/People/12161616_CBxm3#865216062_9Hidz
@Bradley
Revised. Thanks! And awesome photo by the way.