Verano (Summer) a poem by Manuel Machado

June 23, 2009

Frutales Fruit trees
cargados, charged,
Dorados Golden
trigales… cornfields…

Cristales Glass
ahumados. smoked.
Quemados Burned
jarales… rockroses…

Umbría, Shade,
sequía, draught,
solano… easterly wind…

Paleta Palette
completa complete
verano. summer.

Manuel Machado (Seville, 1874 – Madrid 1947)
Spanish poet and playwright of the Generation of ‘98

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