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🦋 La piedra del Águila

The first and eighth poems in the "el maestro de Tarca" series both feature el maestro seated on Eagle Rock, telling his disciples what is fitting and just.

EL MAESTRO DE TARCA (â… )

Sentado en la piedra del Águila
el maestro de Tarca nos decía:

Es conveniente
es recto
que el marinero
tenga cogidas
las cosas por su nombre.
En el peligro
son las cosas sin nombre
las que dañan.

EL MAESTRO DE TARCA (â… )

Seated up on Eagle Rock
el maestro de Tarca told us:

It is fitting
it is just
that the seafarer
should grasp
all things by their name.
In times of danger
the things without names
are the ones that harm.

Carlos Mejía Godoy sings
about grasping all things by their name

EL MAESTRO DE TARCA (â…§)

Sentado en la piedra del Águila
el maestro de Tarca nos decía:

Es conveniente
es recto
que el marinero
olvide a las aguas
su aventura.
Estela hecha
tiempo vivido
Estela deshecha
tiempo borrado.

EL MAESTRO DE TARCA (â…§)

Seated up on Eagle Rock
el maestro de Tarca told us:

It is fitting
it is just
that the seafarer
should entrust his adventure
to the waters.
Wake formed
time lived
Wake dissolved
time erased.

posted morning of Sunday, July 10th, 2011
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