Poem of the week – Caminante no hay Camino (Wayfarer, there is no path) by Antonio Machado (In Spanish & English)

Poem of the week! 

In Spanish & English   – Big thanks to our Registrar, Ophelia for putting this together!

Antonio Machado’s “Caminante no hay Camino”

 

Caminante no hay Camino

Caminante, son tus huellas

el camino y nada más;

Caminante, no hay camino,

se hace camino al andar.

Al andar se hace el camino,

y al volver la vista atrás

se ve la senda que nunca

se ha de volver a pisar.

Caminante no hay camino

sino estelas en la mar.

 

Wayfarer, there is no path

Wayfarer, the only way

Is your footprints and no other.

Wayfarer, there is no way.

Make your way by going farther.

By going farther, make your way

Till looking back at where you’ve wandered,

You look back on that path you may

Not set foot on from now onward.

Wayfarer, there is no way;

Only wake-trails on the waters.

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