The long-poled rocket

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by José Juan Tablada (1871 - 1945)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Cohete de larga vara

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: ENG

Cohete de larga vara
El bambú apenas sube se doblega
En lluvia de menudas esmeraldas.

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Text Authorship:

by José Juan Tablada (1871 - 1945), "El bambú", appears in Un día... (Poemas sintéticos), in La mañana, first published 1919 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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

by Domingo Lobato Bañales (1920 - 2012), "Cohete", copyright © 1983 [ soprano and piano ], from Siete cantos breves : para soprano y piano, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Luis Sandi (1905 - 1996), "El bambú", 1933 [ medium voice and piano ], from Diez Haikais, no. 10 [sung text not yet checked]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2010-09-03
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Word count: 15

The long‑poled rocket

Language: English after the Spanish (Español)

The long-poled rocket
Bamboo barely grows but is toppled
in a rain of miniscule emeralds.

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Translations of title(s):
"Cohete" = "Rocket"
"El bambú" = "Bamboo"

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a text in Spanish (Español) by José Juan Tablada (1871 - 1945), "El bambú", appears in Un día... (Poemas sintéticos), in La mañana, first published 1919
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This text was added to the website: 2019-12-24
Line count: 3
Word count: 15