Orange Turd

 Orange Turd is a bilingual limerick by Gabriel Rosenstock against the background of the hush-money trial



'Cac Oráiste!' a chan éinín ar ghéag
'Cac Oráiste!' Bhfuil fhios agat canathaobh?
             Ag tagairt a bhí an t-éan
             Don Iar-Uachtarán bréan
'Agus canfaidh mé Cac Oráiste go héag.'     

                         ~
I heard it from a wee little bird
Who tweeted, 'Turd! Turd! Orange Turd!'
      Who can say she was wrong
      To go on with her song?
'Orange Turd!' Oh, the whole thing's absurd . . .

Bás Naomh Iósaf

 

Bás N, Iósaf, Johann Friedrich Overbeck

Bás Naomh Iósaf

"Is beannaithe thú idir mhná . . ."
Na focail dheiridh a labhair Iósaf lena bhean ionúin, Muire.

Is beannaithe í gach bean
Fiú an bhean a thugann fuathaitheoir ban ar an saol
Nó sádach
Gealt chinedhíothach.

Mionsamhail d'fheoil is d'fhuil í an bhroinn
De Pharthas féin
Ní chruthaíonn an Cruthaitheoir arrachtaí!

An coimpléasc tionsclaíoch míleata a chruthaíonn arrachtaí.                                                    

Áiméan

Death of Saint Joseph

"Blessed art thou among women  . . ."
Joseph's last words to his beloved wife, Mary.

All women are blessed
Even those who give birth to misogynists
Sadists
Genocidal maniacs.

The womb is a flesh-and-blood model
Of Paradise itself
The Creator does not create monsters!

Monsters are created by the industrial-military complex

Amen.

Aziz Yusuf’un Ölümü

"Kadınlar arasında kutsanmış bulunuyorsun…"
Yusuf’un, sevgili karısı Meryem’e son sözleri.

Tüm kadınlar kutsanmıştır
Kadın düşmanlarını doğuranları dahi
Sadistleri
Soykırımcı manyakları.

Rahim bizzat cennetin
etten ve kandan müteşekkil bir modelidir
Yaradan canavarlar yaratmaz!

Canavarları yaratan askeri sanayidir.

Amin.

Leagan Tuircise Reha Yunluel

DAITH O SANCT JOSEPH

'Seilie ur ye amang wimmen...'
Joseph's hinmaist wurds tae's lief wife, Mary.

Aw wimmen'r seilie
E'en thae whae bring tae life misogyneests
Coorse bruits
Murtherin loonies.

The wame's a flaish an bluid  model
O pairidise itsel
The Almichtie disnae shape monsters!

Monsters'r shapit bi the industrial/ military complex

Amen.

Leagan Béarla na hAlban: John McDonald

An dorchadas seo

 This Darkness

A sentence about this darkness in which I lived
and from whose solid stones I built my days.
I kept on climbing
until I myself became the darkness.

Najwan Darwish

An Dorchadas Seo

Abairt faoin dorchadas seo a raibh cónaí ormsa ann
agus na clocha daingne ann ar ar thógas mo chuid laethanta.
Leanas orm ag dreapadh
go dtí gur deineadh dorchadas díomsa.

Suíomh Dubh sa Rómáin

 [Grianghraf eisithe ag an CIA]

Suíomh Dubh sa Rómáin

Tá suíomh dubh ag an CIA sa Rómáin.
Glacadh grianghraf ann
d'Ammar al-Baluchi
nocht
dornasc air
lom tanaí
mar thaibhse

Ghabh an CIA é
agus é gafa anois arís ag grianghrafadóir CIA
a dhéanann jabanna eile ag an deireadh seachtaine
bainis nó bar mitsveá . . .

Tá thart ar 14,000 grianghraf ann
ó shuímh dhubha an CIA
sárshaothar uafáis gach ceann acu

Déantar cur síos
ar Ammar al-Baluchi
mar chime sa Chogadh in aghaidh Sceimhlitheoireachta

Is é mo dheartháir é.
Cé nach n-aithním ach ar éigean é
Tá an-ghrá agam dó.

                          ~

Black Site in Romania

    There is a CIA black site
    in Romania
    where a photo was taken
    of Ammar al-Baluchi
    naked
    handcuffed
    scrawny
    a ghost of himself

    Captured by the CIA
    now captured again by a CIA photographer
    who does some double-jobbing at weekends -
    weddings, bar mitzvahs . . .

    There are about 14,000 such photographs
    from CIA black sites
    each one a masterpiece of horror

    Ammar al-Baluchi
    is described as
    a War on Terror detainee

    He is my brother.
    Though I barely recognise him
    I love him very much

haiku

  luz do sol

  atravessa uma borboleta

  adormecida

                           Portuguese: David Rodrigues

tríd an bhféileacán ina chodladh

solas na gréine

ag dul thar bráid

                           Irish: Gabriel Rosenstock

  la luz

 traspasa una mariposa

 dormida

                           Spanish: Patricia Jimenez

     

     περνά το ηλιόφως 

     μες απ' την πεταλούδα 

     την κοιμωμένη 

                        Greek: Sarah Thilykou

    luce del sole

    passa attraverso una farfalla

   addormentata 

                     Italian: Lidia Chiarelli 

 lumina soarelui 

 copleșește un flutur

 adormit 

                    Romanian: Olimpia Iacob

 

Haiku

 

luz do sol
atravessa uma borboleta
adormecida

Portuguese: David Rodrigues

tríd an bhféileacán ina chodladh
solas na gréine
ag dul thar bráid

Irish: Gabriel Rosenstock

la luz
traspasa una mariposa
dormida

Spanish: Patricia Jimenez

περνά το ηλιόφως
μες απ' την πεταλούδα
την κοιμωμένη

Greek: Sarah Thilykou

luce del sole
passa attraverso una farfalla
addormentata

Italian: Lidia Chiarelli

lumina soarelui
copleșește un flutur
adormit

Romanian: Olimpia Iacob

Samaritans

 

Good Samaritan, Aimé Nicolas Morot

Na Samáraigh Mhaithe

Níl siad chomh coitianta is a bhíodh
Samáraigh Mhaithe an Domhain
Aimsíonn dróin iad
Atá á láimhseáil i bhfad i gcéin.
Feictear a gcroí mór ar scáileáin speisialta
Croíthe a bhuaileann ar son a gcomhdhaoine
De lá is d'oíche
Beidh siad ina dtargaid.
Is é an dea-scéal ná go mbeidh sé thart
i bhfaiteadh na súl!

The Good Samaritans of the World

They are becoming rare
The Good Samaritans of the World.
Spotted by drones
Operated miles away.
Their big hearts can be seen on special screens
Beating away for fellow human beings
Thumping day and night.
They will be targeted
The good news is
It will all be over in a flash!

THE GUID SAMARITANS O THE WARL

Thair cumin gye an antrin
The Guid Samaritans o the warl.
Gliskit bi drones
airtit bi fowk miles awa
Thair muckle herts can be gliskit on speeshul graith
thrabbin awa fir fella fowk
duntin awa day an nicht.
They'll be prappit
The guid news is
It wull aw be ower in a glint!

Leagan Béarla na hAlban: John McDonald