Carol Gullidge May 9, 2023:

@Tomasso I find it very worrying that you appear to not see the blatant grammatical error in "of those gaze"! This is not a minor error that can simply be ignored!

Andrew Bramhall May 7, 2023:

"Poet, Adrian?...that's interesting!" It certainly is! Adrian's Bluegrass Poetry volume, published by Regency Press, June '68, attracts NIL google hits. However, the same book details, when attributed to Colin Ian Lavery, 389,000 Google hits! Strangely enough, the 1968 Wikipedia published poets page also neglects to mention AMM; obviously an administrative oversight! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_in_poetry

Tomasso May 7, 2023:

eternidad de discusion, literalism y emocion? Vease talvez a http://www.scielo.org.co/pdf/lthc/v19n2/0123-5931-lthc-19-02...

(Las palabras literales son sólo una aproximación a la realidad opinan algunos. )

Ernesto looked askance, those empty blind eyes caused him profound sadness.

Como traduce en Ernesto miraba con recelo, aquellos ojos ciegos y vacíos le causaban una profunda tristeza. Suene bien o es forzado, pues claro esta lejos de original.

Andrew Bramhall May 7, 2023:

Curious and curiouser... ..AMM seems to have realised his error in thinking 'vacío' is an adjective here, and has amended his comments, while still leaving his pro answer from 2003 up which highlights only the adjectival use of 'vacío', which is totally irrelevant here as it is obviously a noun, qualified by the adjective 'lúgubre', an adjective with many possible translations into English, besides the literal ' lugubrious'.

Andrew Bramhall May 6, 2023:

Sorry, here: Poems by Colin Ian Jeffery - Modern Literature
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Colin Ian Jeffery (born 1942) is from Surrey, England. He is a poet of our times and numerous collections of his poetry have been published. Colin was educated at St. John’s Church of England school in Caterham, and at seven went to the Modern School for Boys in Purely, and then on to Clarks College in Croydon.

Andrew Bramhall May 6, 2023:

AMM showing himself up with his ignorance ! "Unlike the first rushed answer" (i.e. mine) Adrian liked the one he validated. Fair enough. but it's based on a falsehood. "El vacío lúgubre" is ' the glum ( whatever) emptiness, and AMM is showing his ignorance by not even realising that 'vacio' qualified by the definite article is the noun 'emptiness' and not the adjective 'empty' ; and astonishingly (not to mention forgetfully and irrelevantly), is yet again claiming intellectual property of a volume of poetry published by Ian Colin Jeffery. This fake " claim" used to appear on his proz. profile page until he was called out on it be me about a year ago, but he thought it would be forgotten about by now: check it out here:

Tomasso May 5, 2023:

empty sadnes, sad emptiness? The sad emptiness of those eyes was overpowering. the sad emptiness of his eyes brought powerful emotions, (final chioice depends on larger text Maybe?)