08 Monday Jul 2013
Posted in Uncategorized
≈ Comments Off on love is a sad lament i must sing to the clouds
“Not knowing that I am pillowed among the crags on Kamo Mountain, my wife must still be waiting for my return. ‘Today, today!’ each day I have waited for you and now they say you are strewn with the shells of Ishi River! Love is a sad lament I must sing to the clouds as they pass Ishi River.”
— from Manyoshu’s Collection of Ten thousand Leaves (Japanese Anthology compiled in 759 AD) and the OVA Blue Sub #6 (2000 AD)
08 Wednesday May 2013
Posted in Poetry, Translation
≈ Comments Off on where in your voice
“Where in your voice
did I lose myself?”
— Iranian poet Masoud Ahmadi
from “This Craving and this Me.”
Translated by Alireza Abiz
(from indigenousdialogues)
08 Wednesday May 2013
Posted in Armenia, Armenian, Feminism, photograph, Translation
≈ Comments Off on do not love me as if i were a flower
Do not love me as if I were a flower
I want to live a worthy life —
as if I were an atom in a mass of troubles
as a child of street mobs!
Shushanik Kurghinian
09 Tuesday Apr 2013
Posted in Armenian, Poetry, Translation
≈ Comments Off on ձեր երազանքների
Ես հասկանում եմ ձեր երազանքների.
Ոչինչ մի անհանգստացեք.
Ձեր գաղտնի ապահով.
.
I understand your dreams.
Do not worry.
Your secret is safe.
08 Monday Apr 2013
Posted in Armenian, Poetry, Translation
≈ Comments Off on i want to sing only for you
Someday I will find a friend to help me re-learn all the Armenian I knew while in Peace Corps. Now I feel frustrated, I’ve forgotten so much. But I know one day I’ll sing again, sing beautifully.
Ես մուրացկան.
Ես ուզում եմ այցելել ձեզ.
Բայց ես չեմ կարող երգել.
Խնդրում ենք սովորեցնել ինձ երգել.
Ես ուզում եմ երգել է միայն ձեզ համար.
.
I am a beggar.
I want to see you.
But I can not sing.
Please teach me to sing.
I want to sing only for you.
08 Monday Apr 2013
Posted in Armenian, Erotic, Poetry, Translation
≈ Comments Off on ձեր երանության
Իմ լեզուն ներսում ձեր շուրթերը.
Ես խմել ձեր երանության.
Ձեր ձեռքը իմ գլխին.
.
My tongue inside your lips.
I drink your bliss.
Your hand on my head.
08 Friday Feb 2013
Posted in Poetry News
≈ Comments Off on chile judge orders exhumation of pablo neruda’s remains
Tags
assassination, BBC, Chile, exhumation, Pablo Neruda, poetry news
The BBC just released this:
A judge in Chile has ordered the exhumation of the remains of the poet Pablo Neruda, as part of an inquest into his death in 1973.
The left-wing Nobel Prize winner died 12 days after a military coup replaced the socialist president Salvador Allende with General Augusto Pinochet.
The poet’s family has always maintained that he died in a Santiago clinic of advanced prostate cancer, aged 69.
Chile started investigating allegations that he may have been poisoned in 2011.
The date of the exhumation has not been fixed yet.
memories of my ghost sista 