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domingo, 8 de dezembro de 2013

MORE ROMANTIC NOTIONS



Pollen of dust to dust


"It is foolish to approach the infinite as if it is a product of the finite world. The infinite is primary. It is an inevitability of nature. The finite world follows in its wake. The finite we experience is a secondary component. And at some level we all know this." Harris.

 
 
In vindication
for all my religions
semi mystical thoughts
about everything
and about nothing

I shall pour my poetry on to you
like a liquid
with no vessel to contain it

be romantic
wonder
invent you

and in the end

you and I will fall flat
between slivers
in a parallel universe

a mundo splashed side by side
like a hunt for treasure chest
pearls spilled gift for the other

we shall travel
imagine
die and compost

in the same no place at all
beginning of earth
of dirt and of dust



Erica Weick

Seed by seed

 
 

 

terça-feira, 7 de maio de 2013

Homenagem a Senhora Dona Ana

 




CELEBRANDO O MATERNO

 
Nesse dia a minha homenagem a minha Mãe, senhora Dona Ana que escreve poesia, mora no Brasil, lê as noticias do mundo, uma carta minha de tres anos atras e me aconselha na sua bela caligrafia que
 
“O Tempo relaciona em grãos diferentes os mesmos pareceres
 e tudo vem e vai no Tempo Certo.”
 
A minha querida mãe poeta aos noventa e quatro e a todas as mães, homens e mulheres, crianças brincando com bonecas e com servir o chá de mentirinha pra aprender no fazer, para os pais no acordar da madrugada, no buscar da escola, os costureiros, cozinheiros, plantas lançando semente, musgos na chuva da rocha, lobas na colheita, coelhos e macaquinhos, nós todos que cuidamos pro ser dos seres com carinho de especie e cuidado de mãe sem sempre saber porque. Mas sabendo sempre o que fazer.
Na minha vida de licença poetica e no privilegio de conhecer minha Mãe agora,  de poder traduzir sua poesia, literal e na ancestria faze-la minha e virtual!
Do poeta Rumi:
“Viaja...”
Todas as trilhas desaparecem; você diz “Viaja...”,
Volto pra te implorar que fiques; você já não está.
As brisas ao meu redor tem sua fragrancia
Florzinhas desabrocham, palavras suas.
- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
 ( tradução livre minha)
 

CELEBRATING THE MATERNAL

Today I honor my Mother, Dona Ana, the one who writes poetry and lives in Brasil, reads the news of the world, a letter I wrote three years ago and tells me in counseling, in her most precise and beautiful calligraphy that
“In different grains
time sprouts the same sayings and semblances
all comes and goes
in their times of certainty…”
To my dear poet mother at ninety four and to all mothers, men and women, children playing with dolls and serving tea of make-believe in practice, to fathers awake at dawn, fetching kids from school, to the seamstresses, the cooks, to plants shooting seeds, moss in the rain of rock, wolverines in harvest, rabbits and monkeys, all of us who care for being, with tenderness of species and maternal care, not always knowing why.  But always knowing how.
In my life of poetic license and in the privilege of knowing my Mother now, so that I can translate her poetry, literally, and in ancestry make it my own and virtual! 
 
Travel On
 All tracks vanished; you said 'Travel on'
 I turned to beg you stay; you had gone.
 Winds pressed round me that smelled of you
 Small flowers blossomed, words from your mouth.
 - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
 (Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)