Jun 7, 2013 19:15
11 yrs ago
Spanish term

"Flor en veda"

Non-PRO Spanish to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature Cuban song lyrics
Can anyone help with the meaning of the expression "flor en veda"? It appears in the lyrics of Cuban musician Pedro Luis Ferrer's song, "En espuma y arena" (see lyrics below for further context). The options I've come up with are: "forbidden flower" or "closed flower" (it seems that "veda" can mean closed) but I'm not sure I'm on the right track. Any suggestions or help will be much appreciated!

En espuma y arena
Pedro Luis Ferrer (canción)


Aunque siempre me veas
con una flor en veda
rompiendo abecedario
contra viento y marea,
no creas que mis manos
despedazan florestas,
despedazan florestas;
aunque sienta deseos
de odiar hasta que muera
la angustia inevitable
de tu cara perfecta,
no creas que mi odio
es el odio de veras;
es tan sólo el intento
de caer en tu hoguera
y de quemar conmigo
tu soledad enferma.
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forbiden flower

Veda means forbiden (as in forbiden to take because it is in danger of extinsion) When we say that a game animal is in veda, it means that it cannot be hunted because its species is in danger. Veda also means that the season for hunting is clossed. In the poem, the poet is offering the lady a forbiden flower (it is very rare and wild) as a sign of love for her; asking her to acept his company to mitigate her lonelyness.
Example sentence:

Shrimp is in veda in San Andres; it cannot be fished temporally.

Peer comment(s):

agree philgoddard : Forbidden.
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agree James A. Walsh : ForbidDen has the right register for me here. BTW, you might want to use an English spell checker in future ;-)
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Forbidden fruit

I believe this would me more natural...



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Note from asker:
Thank you for your suggestion Edward. I also agree this sounds more natural but I like that "forbidden flower" foreignises the target text/maintains a touch of the source text.
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