Thursday, August 6, 2009

Wislawa Symborska



UTOPIA

Island where all becomes clear.

Solid ground beneath your feet.

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The only roads are those that offer access.

Bushes bend beneath the weight of proofs.

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The Tree of Valid Supposition grows here

with branches disentangled since time immemorial.

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The Tree of Understanding, dazzlingly straight and simple,

sprouts by the spring called Now I Get It.


The thicker the woods, the vaster the vista:the Valley of Obviously.

If any doubts arise, the wind dispels them instantly.

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Echoes stir unsummonedand eagerly explain all the secrets of the worlds.

On the right a cave where Meaning lies.

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On the left the Lake of Deep Conviction.

Truth breaks from the bottom and bobs to the surface.

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Unshakable Confidence towers over the valley.

Its peak offers an excellent view of the Essence of Things.

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For all its charms, the island is uninhabited,

and the faint footprints scattered on its beaches

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turn without exception to the sea.

As if all you can do here is leave and plunge,

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never to return, into the depths.

Into unfathomable life

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