Joyous Sea
By Magda Portal
Translated By Kathleen Weaver
I'm a sea since I could never have been a river
An unchanneled sea
of green merriments
and solitary depths
A sea embracing
Life and Death
out of which all vital force
emerges and to which it returns
I am a sea like that becalmed ocean
I see before me
skirting the Land
with its gentle sovereign kiss
I am a Sea
eyes of dusk
voice of early light
Like that indigo ocean
I woke to on my first voyage
That sea with the open arms
of perennial youth
Where my Hope alights
white seagull
with dawn-colored eyes
I am a Sea
Genesis of Life
Copyright Credit: Magda Portal, "Joyous Sea" from Hope and the Sea, tr. by Kathleen Weaver. Copyright © 2021 by Magda Portal. Reprinted by permission of Dulzorada Press.
Source: Hope and the Sea (Dulzorada Press, 2021)