LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,453)
  • Text Authors (20,217)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,119)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

© by Rocío Gonzáles (1962 - 2019)
Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

(In San Mateo del Mar men fish by tying...
Language: English  after the Spanish (Español) 
(In San Mateo del Mar men fish by tying the
corners of their nets to kites which are suspended
by the strength of the wind)

Kite tied to it's net,
pursued patient of the moon
kite without thread between the waves
breeze's lover that imprisons.

You were made centuries ago
by children who saw birds
purely devoted to the wind.

Staring at you there
fuelled by the foam's song,
beautiful brother of the salt
I know why you search your lovers in the air.

About the headline (FAQ)

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Spanish (Español) by Rocío Gonzáles (1962 - 2019), "Papalote", copyright ©
    • Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

    [ None yet in the database ]


Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2025-11-23
Line count: 14
Word count: 84

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris