Pedro Sevylla de Juana: The power of sight

The power of sight

Pedro Sevylla de Juana

The cliffs of Cornwall, the road from Trebarwith Village to the shore

To live

from a purely human point of view

is to sink gently into the sea of reality

and to swim till the weariness beneath the floating islands

fleeing from voracious fish and oceanic snakes.

O! the cliffs of Cornwall

the fuzzy line of the horizon

the gloomy clouds at dusk

the reddish sunsets amid the mist,

and the measured voice of Jane Read, actress, reciting a poem

imitating the words of the common people

drawing the faces of the Celtic Gods,

mere listeners along the narrow footpath.

which leads to infinity.

O! the magic moment,

the mysterious charm of the country...

My passionate imagination,

from a purely aesthetic point of view,

balances the Tierra de Campos and Cerrato deserts

whith the liquid meadows of Camelford.

And the sight goes from a place to another

converting the grey of foggy

the black stormy

into blue of a sapphire sky.

The road from Trebarwith Village to the shore

is a part of my devious trajectory

as the track that arrives to Husillos,

Carrión river, channel,

from Valdepero, fountains, brooks

near Palencia.

The existential vicissitude is tempered,

from a purely emotive point of view,

in the symmetry of the deepest remembrances,

becoming a matter of lines and colors

scents and premonitions.

And the reality,

in this interminable winter,

is the hard steppe of the dreams.

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Copyright ©	Pedro Sevylla de Juana, 2008
By the same author	There are no more works at Badosa.com
Date of publication	May 2009
Collection	A Hot January
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