AGAIN CAVAFIS BRINGS THE STEP

...."Do not go in a hurry, enjoy every moment, learn everything and never, never predispose" . It's been a long time since I left university and it's still good for me to remember the advice that an old poet friend gave me in those spaces. SheWafi Salih introduced me to Cavafis, when I was only 17 years old, and today she is still teaching me new Itacas

_{Cronopiando Ando}

The truth is that when you really are passionate about simple and at the same time deep topics, you usually devote a lot of time to researching and organizing the findings, for that reason as if you were dealing with small children, of which you do not want to give up until you consider Be ready, you do not finish closing the texts, of whatever your class. At the beginning of my blog I offered that this month of March I would dedicate it completely to the project of "The Wonderful Flowers of the Candela" in homage to the Woman, nevertheless it is almost the end of the month and it is necessary to emphasize that it will be impossible to close this first series in such a short time, therefore, it is urgent to reconsider the lapses, letting go of rigidities and admitting that in this creative adventure in STEEMIT, the events are in full development and due to new contributions that will serve as a support to this project, it will not show the time of duration for its culmination, we will enjoy each delivery and the succulent journey, exploring the topics that each story puts on the table as that poem entitled Journey to Ithaca of that great writer of Greek origin Constantino Cavafis, here I leave it and not There is a better excuse:

—Itaca

When you embark on your trip to Itaca

It asks for the path to be long,

full of adventures, full of experiences.

Do not fear the Lestrigones or the Cyclops

nor the choleric Poseidon,
Such beings you will never find in your way,
If your thinking is high, if you select
It is the emotion that touches your spirit and your body.
Neither the Lestrigones nor the Cyclops
nor the wild Poseidon will you find,
if you do not carry them inside your soul,
if your soul does not stand before you.

It asks for the path to be long.
May many be summer mornings
when you arrive - with what pleasure and joy! -
to ports never seen before.
Stop at the Phoenician emporiums
and get yourself beautiful merchandise,
nacre and coral, amber and ebony
and all kinds of sensual perfumes,
The more abundant sensual perfumes you can.
Go to many Egyptian cities
to learn, to learn from their sages.

Always have Ithaca in your mind.
Getting there is your destiny.
But do not hurry the trip.
Better that it lasts for many years
and dock, old man, on the island,
enriched by what you gained along the way
without enduring Itaca enrich you.

Ithaca gave you such a beautiful trip.
Without it you would not have started on the road.
But he has nothing left to give you.

Even if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you.
So, wise as you have become, with so much experience,
You will understand what the Itacas mean.

C. P. Cavafis. Poetic anthology.
Alianza Editorial, Madrid 1999.

Editing and translation, Pedro Bádenas de la Peña