Daily Archives: December 19, 2021

Ithaca 710: Pastime – MARIO BENEDETTI / Translation Germain Droogenbroodt – Stanley Barkan from “Antología poética”, Alianza Editorial, Madrid

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Painting by Patrick von Kalckreuth, Germany (1892-1970)
 
 
PASTIME
 
When we were kids,
the old men were about thirty,
a puddle was an ocean
death flat and even—
didn’t exist.
 
Then when we were teens,
old men were people in their forties,
a pond was an ocean—
death only
a word
 
By the time we got married,
the old people were in their fifties,
a lake was an ocean—
death was the death
of the others.
 
Now veterans,
we’ve caught up with the truth,
the ocean is at last the ocean—
but death starts
to be ours.
 
MARIO BENEDETTI, Uruguay (1920 – 2009)
 
Translation Germain Droogenbroodt – Stanley Barkan
from “Antología poética”, Alianza Editorial, Madrid
 

  “Meeting you in snow circles”… (“Σε συναντώ στους κύκλους του χιονιού” …) – Poem by Tatyana Terebinova / Translated into Greek by Eva Petropoulou Lianou

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  Poem by Tatyana Terebinova     “Σε συναντώ στους κύκλους του χιονιού” …   Χειμώνα, είσαι ένα σπάνιο δέντρο, μια νέα μορφή μοναξιάς στα δάση της ψυχής μας – τα αρωματικά φρούτα σου από χιονοθύελλες, χιονοθύελλες τρυφερών ανησυχιών συγκεντρωνονται … Continue reading →

”Të çmendesh bukur, kur dhimbja merr zë ” – Libër thesar që dëshmon identitet kombëtar përtej zërit të poetit Sabit Idrizi / Nga: Valentina K. Dafa

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  ”Të çmendesh bukur, kur dhimbja merr zë ” Libër thesar që dëshmon identitet kombëtar përtej zërit të poetit Sabit Idrizi   Teksa lexon librin ”Të çmendesh bukur, kur dhimbja merr zë ”, një dhimbje e dinjitetshme të pushton ashtu … Continue reading →