Selected Poems, Federico García Lorca. Spain

@brittarnhild

I want this literary travel through all the countries in the world to be way of broadening my mind. Through reading authors new to me, to exploring countries I´ve hardly heard of, and to read other kinds of literature than when I usually do. Poetry is not on my every day reading list, still, for Spain I chose Lorca and a book with his selected poems. We are in Spain this week, in Tenerife, so two days ago you found me laying on the beach, sun bathing and enjoying Lorca´s poems.

Lorca has a wide range of different types of poets, the one I want to share with you here is a short, funny one:

Folish Song

Mama,
I want to turn into silver.

Son,
you´d freeze.

Mama,
I want to turn into water.

Son,
you´d freeze.

Mama,
sew me into your pillow.

This time yes,
and straightaway!

 

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Federico García Lorca was born in Granada in 1898. The photo shows pomegranates I photographed in Granada in 2009 :-)