Five unexpected sights.- Xavier Frías Conde

All of a sudden I felt like breaking my thirst of writing poetry. I hadn't written poetry for very long, and I hadn't written in Asturian even for longer. Well, today it was the day to break up such a blank period (to define it in some way). Here are such poems in a trilingual version: Asturian-Spanish-English
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vo celebrar

un mar

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les llendes

malpenes una color

incógnita

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voy a celebrar

un mar

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las leyendas

apenas un color

incógnito

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I will celebrate

a sea

legends

hardly an undefined

colour

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fálame

foles y caricies

soplos y marees

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habitar

tos mexelles

cuasi ilegalmente

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háblame

olas y caricias

soplos y mareas

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habitar

tus mejillas

casi ilegalmente

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talk to me

waves and caresses

whispers and tides

to dwell

your cheeks

almost illegally

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llévame

vegada a vegada

pel cauce del to silenciu

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embiligu

y borrines

na alborada

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llévame

vez a vez

por el cauce de tu silencio

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ombligo

y nieblas

al alba

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take me

time by time

along the path of your silence

navel

and fogs

at dawn

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vo procurate

so les sábanes

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fantasmes

dioses

llagunes

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voy a buscarte

bajo las sábanas

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fantasmas

diosas

lagunas

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I will fetch you

under the sheets

phantoms

goddesses

lagoons

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yes

tola mio relixión

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…tan tienra

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eres

toda mi religión

... tan tierna

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you are

my whole religion

... that tender

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