The Seed

We present this work in honor of the poet’s 115th birthday.

Emilio Ballagas
Cuban
1908 – 1954

 

Playing hide and seek
The seed is hidden.
(Deep in the earth
a blind star beats.)

How scared you must feel
inside the dark land!
(The children look for her and she
beats deep, hidden.)

But they call her the trills
the sun and spring;
shy she looks out and soon
add two green wings.

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