I saw this poem, an English version--a different English version, and attributed to someone else--on the wall of the hostel where I was living in Costa Rica, back in early 1996. I was so struck by it I copied it down into my journal, then later that term translated it into Spanish and turned it in as a writing assignment (not as my own work, but as an original translation).
I never had any idea the original was Spanish (nor did my Spanish teacher). I'm amused by the serendipity, and pleased to see that my own Spanish version was not too far off the mark :-)
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Date: 2013-04-22 08:55 pm (UTC)I saw this poem, an English version--a different English version, and attributed to someone else--on the wall of the hostel where I was living in Costa Rica, back in early 1996. I was so struck by it I copied it down into my journal, then later that term translated it into Spanish and turned it in as a writing assignment (not as my own work, but as an original translation).
I never had any idea the original was Spanish (nor did my Spanish teacher). I'm amused by the serendipity, and pleased to see that my own Spanish version was not too far off the mark :-)