Plaza / Cruz: Por estos cuatro caminos

English version from a 1931 Spanish poem by Venezuelan poet Luís Barrios Cruz (1898-1968)

From Siete canciones venezolanas (1932), by Juan Bautista Plaza (1898-1965).

--English version ©2011, by E. Lein

Over these four roads flew four wild macaws,

Over these four roads through the sun-parched plain.

Over these four roads four egrets got lost

In search of a green pool that the scrub brush drank.

Over these four roads of the forlorn guitar,

Over these four roads I will find my soul.

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