2025-02-09

Un espoir à saisir / Dóchas Dara Láimhe

Un espoir à saisir

Il n’y a, paraît-il
Plus d’espoir en soldes
dans les rayons du supermarché.
(L’article a connu
dans le passé un certain succès,
mais sa production en série
a été arrêtée).
Vous pourrez cependant
peut-être en  trouver un
dans une vente de solidarité
ou un stand de plein air
sur le parcours d’un défilé,
un espoir tout neuf
qui n’a jamais servi
un peu court aux manches
ou même un de seconde main
une occasion à saisir
élimé au col
mais il peut encore servir.
Mettez-le sur votre dos et vous verrez :
vite, il va reprendre forme.

(31/XII/2024)
Francis Combes



Dóchas dara láimhe


Níl dóchas ar díol
a thuilleadh
ar sheilfeanna ollmhargaí.
(Bhí éileamh cuibheasach maith
ar an earra
ach cuireadh deireadh lena olltáirgeadh).
Mar sin féin, seans go dtiocfá air
i siopa carthanais
nó ar stalla éigin
ar do shlí chuig agóid,
dóchas úrnua
nár caitheadh riamh
na muinchillí pas beag róghearr,
nó ceann dara láimhe
margadh maith
an bóna ábhairín caite
ach d'fhéadfá é a úsáid mar sin féin.
Cuir ort é go bhfeicfidh tú:
agus a bhunchruth ag teacht air de réir a chéile.

Irish transcreation: Gabriel Rosenstock



A second-hand hope


There is no more
hope on sale
in the supermarket stalls.
(The item was
pretty successful,
but its mass production was stopped).
However, you will
probably find one
at a charity sale
or an outdoor stand
on the route of a demo,
a brand new hope
that was never worn
whose sleeves are a little short
or even a second hand one
a good bargain
the collar is a bit worn
but you can still use it.
Try it on and you will see:
it will soon take its original shape.

(Eng. Translation : Alexis Bernaut)

2025-02-08

Time To Clean out the Whole Thing, says Trump


Eugène Alexis Girardet, The Flight Into Egypt (1883)

 

 Time To Clean Out the Whole Thing

 
Time to clean out Gaza!
Let Jordan take in the survivors
And Egypt.
Get a move on!
You're holding everybody up!
Remove the rubble and what lies beneath.
We're going to build something wonderful here
The world has never seen anything like it!
Can those goddam donkeys move any faster?
 
We're going to build something unbelievable!
 

 
Tá Sé In Am an Rud ar Fad a Ghlanadh Amach

 
Tá sé in am Gaza a ghlanadh amach!
Tógadh an Iordáin na maranthóirí
Agus an Éigipt.
Brostaígí!
Tá sibh ag cur moille ar gach éinne!
Glanaigí an smionagar go léir agus a bhfuil thíos faoi.
Táimid chun rud éigin iontach a thógáil anseo.
Níl a leithéid feicthe ag an domhan fós.
Nach bhfuil na hasail dhamanta sin in ann bogadh níos gasta?
 
Táimid chun rud éigin dochreidte ar fad a thógáil anseo!
 

Gabriel Rosenstock

 Ώρα να καθαρίσουμε το όλο πράγμα

 
Ώρα να καθαρίσουμε τη Γάζα!
Αφήστε την Ιορδανία να πάρει τους επιζώντες
Και την Αίγυπτο.
Προχωρήστε!
Μην περιμένετε!
Αφαιρέστε τα ερείπια κι ό,τι κρύβεται από κάτω.
Εδώ θα φτιάξουμε κάτι υπέροχο
Ο κόσμος δεν θα ’χει ξαναδεί κάτι παρόμοιο!
Μπορούν αυτά τα γαϊδούρια να κινηθούν πιο γρήγορα;
Θα φτιάξουμε κάτι απίστευτο!

Greek version: Dinos Siotis

 

2024-12-17

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 . . .

2024-12-16

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



2024-12-15

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.



2024-12-14

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

2024-12-02

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