Guadarrama
1969
Guadarrama, is it you, old friend,
mountains white and gray
that I used to see painted against the blue
those afternoons of the old days in Madrid?
Up your deep ravines
and past your bristling peaks
a thousand Guadarramas and a thousand suns
come riding with me, riding to your heart
Antonio Machado
Born: 26 July 1875, Seville, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Died: 22 February 1939, Collioure, France
Machado was a poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement Generation of ’98. His early modernist work evolved into an intimate form of symbolism with a romantic characteristic. Machado’s style engaged with humanity with a Taoist contemplation of existence
Jezzie G 