2024-10-06

Polaitíocht na hEagla / The Politics of Fear


Maynard Dixon      
                               
The Politics of Fear
       
We do not know who or what we are
We huddle in fear
There is no warmth from one another
Nothing but cold fear.
Leaders of the world, have you brought us to this?
Fear begins to smell like a rotting animal
A fox shot between the two eyes
Its tongue hanging out limply, scorched by the sun
                                    
Polaitíocht na hEagla

Táimid gróigthe le chéile agus eagla orainn
Níl teas ar bith ag teacht óna chéile
Fuareagla amháin.
A cheannairí an domhain, an é seo toradh bhur gcuid oibre?
Tagann boladh ainmhí ón eagla, ainmhí atá ag lobhadh
 Sionnach a lámhachadh idir an dá shúil
A theanga ar liobarna, barrdhóite ag an ngrian

2024-10-05

tafann na dtonn

A PDF of a new book of photo-haiku herewith, The Barking Waves



This is a broad explanatory note on the project:

A great landscape photographer is aware of the Heraclitean maxim, 'You never step into the same river twice'. What does that mean? It means
that American master photographer Ron Rosenstock has been exploring the mysterious and ever-delightful hinterland of Westport for the past half-century without ever
tiring of it! Today's disease is, 'Been there, done that.' Have you really been there? Have you been anywhere? Without awareness, without mindfulness you've been nowhere. And if you go back, do you think it's going to be the same place? How could it be? Heraclitus says, Panta rhei, all is flux! Even in the space of half an hour, the landscapes of Co. Mayo, so prized by Ron Rosenstock, can change in a second.
A cloud appears that wasn't there before. The light begins to work its magic, to announce the coming of twilight. These ever-changing variations of light and shade create landscapes which bewitch and invite not only the photographer, but the haikuist as well. The haikuist is conscious of a living landscape and when the two artforms come
together, photography and haiku, we can create meditative moments together. The experience, when repeated over and over again, can sharpen and enrich our awareness of the living world and contribute to mindfulness.
I have followed Ron on his photographic tours and odysseys, to Morocco, Scotland, the Faroe Islands - and Mayo! - not as a chronicler. To describe what I see would be tautologous. What the haikuist does is somehow to reflect the spiritual or poetic effect which the photograph has on his consciousness. I view Ron's photographs as
masterpieces. I can return to a photo I haven't looked at in a year and write a completely new haiku to match it. It seems to me that each photograph is mysteriously alive!


Print version from Foyles 

2024-10-04

Éilias á chothú ag fiach dubh

Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo (1485 – 1548)



Éilias

Tá an scéal ar eolas agat.
Má tá na gadhair sona
gan chúis -
tá cúis leis!
Tá Éilias, fáidh, sa chomharsanacht!
A leithéid de dhuine!
Mar sin, abair liom.
Conas tá na gadhair na laethanta seo
in Rafah?
An sona dóibh?


ELIJAH

Ye ken the crack.
Whan the dugs'r blithe
fir nae raison -
thair's a raison!
The prophet Elijah is near haun!
Whit a chiel!
So, witter me
hou'r the dugs thae days
in Rafah?
ur thay blithe?
                               
Leagan Béarla na hAlban: John McDonald

  
Ο Ηλίας

Ξέρεις την ιστορία.
Όταν τα σκυλιά είναι χαρούμενα
για κανένα λόγο –
υπάρχει λόγος!
Ο προφήτης Ηλίας είναι στη γειτονιά!
Τι τύπος!
Λοιπόν πες μου
Πώς είναι τα σκυλιά
αυτές τις μέρες στη Ράφα;
Είναι χαρούμενα;

Leagan Gréigise: Dino Siotis


Elijah

You know the story.
When the dogs are happy
for no reason -
there's a reason!
The prophet Elijah is in the neighbourhood!
What a guy!
So, tell me
How are the dogs these days
in Rafah?
Are they happy?




2024-10-03




Image: Kazuyuki Ohtsu

A single leaf falls 
then suddenly another
stolen by the breeze.

Rensetsup
1654-1707

titeann duilleog aonair
ansin go tobann
sciobann leoithne ceann eile

jedan list padne
tada odjednom drugi
ukraden lahorom

Croatian: Tomislav Maretić

ஓர் இலை உதிர்கிறது
உடனே இன்னொன்று
காற்று களவாடிச் செல்கிறது

Tamil : Tamilmainthan John Richard
 

2024-10-02

Haiku agus grianghraf le Jason Symes



an mise
fheiceann grian na maidine
an mise tusa?

the "i" that sees
the morning sun
 am i you?
.

2024-10-01

Photo-Haiku: Kon Markogiannis

abhainn ag rith
sliabh ciúin 
     is ionann iad



ஓடும் நதி
        நிசப்த மலை
                 இரண்டும் ஒன்றே

Tamil: Tamilmainthan John Richard.


2024-09-30

haiku


Ron Rosenstock 
     
     struggling to make it . . .
     all alone
     wilderness tree 

     crann ar an iargúil        
    ag streachailt de shíor
    leis féin

  raxin tae mak it . . .
 aw alane
 wulderness tree
                                 
  Béarla na hAlban: John McDonald