"Caminante No Hay Camino", Antonio Machado

This morning in class, the conversation with the sangha brought us to this poem. My 7 am class is bilingual, so here is the original poem (Spanish) and a translation I really liked, from an interesting website, favoritepoem.org, which includes videos of people telling their stories and reading a favorite poem (Favorite Poem Project).

I included as well 4 videos of Juan Manuel Serrat singing his famous song "Cantares", based on this poem.

Machado, “Caminante, no hay camino/ Traveler, There Is No Road”

Antonio Machado

“Caminante, son tus huellas

el camino y nada más;

Caminante, no hay camino,

se hace camino al andar.

Al andar se hace el camino,

y al volver la vista atrás

se ve la senda que nunca

se ha de volver a pisar.

Caminante, no hay camino

sino estelas en la mar.”

Traveler, your footprints

are the only road, nothing else.

Traveler, there is no road;

you make your own path as you walk.

As you walk, you make your own road,

and when you look back

you see the path

you will never travel again.

Traveler, there is no road;

only a ship’s wake on the sea.

Walking into the Light. California , August 2024

Listen to the song by Joan Manuel Serrat. I include here 4 videos, so that you can travel in time with me, and if you don't know this song yet, have an idea of the impact that it has in my world.

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