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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Poetry of Chocano [1]

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Date: 2023-10-13  

The Orchids

Jose Santos Chocano (1875-1934)

translated from the Spanish by Alice Stone Blackwell

Freaks of bright crystal, airy beauties fair,

Whose enigmatic forms amaze the eye—



Crowns fit to deck Apollo’s brows on high,

Adornments meet for halls of splendor rare!



They spring from knots in tree-trunks, rising there

In sweet gradation; winding wondrously,



They twist their serpent stems, and far and nigh

Hang overhead like wingless birds in air.

Lonely, like pensive heads, all fetterless,

Lofty and free they bloom; by no dull chain



Their flowers to any tyrant root are bound;

Because they too, at war with pettiness,



Desire to live, like souls that know no stain,

Without one touch of contact with the ground.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on September 24, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets.

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