Cómo se mide la espuma
Que resbala de la cerveza?
It might translate like:
How do we measure the foam
That slides off a beer?
To a poet, though, se mide
Means scan — to analyse the line
I see good old Pablo sitting in a pub,
Scanning the foam that's
Sliding off the beer, counting the
Beats, measuring the meter
Looking for wisdom in its lines
How can I not ask why he asks
What he asks
Why scan the ephemeral?
What does it mean to try
To catch one moment
In its short lived life?
How can we be in that instant
To exist perfectly open empty aware
And know and scan, and catch, and be
And perfectly understand.
If we figure it out, then
Maybe, along with jolly Pablo,
We'll sip the brew and
Achieve enlightenment.
Pablo refers to the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda
The quote is from stanza X of his last work,
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