2013-10-31

Focal an lae: Móg

Le Dennis King
Móg:
A turnip hollowed to take a candle and simulate a head, supported by a churn-dash...

2013-10-29

Kālidāsa: Dúiseacht

Dúiseacht


  Fiú an té atá sona
    faigheann sé leid éigin
    nó teagmhaíonn ribe fuaime leis

    agus pléascann a chroí le tnúthán
        nach n-aithníonn sé
  ní foláir nó gur ag cuimhneamh atá sé
  ar chruthanna ar thug sé grá dóibh
         in áit nach bhfuil teacht air

         i saol roimhe seo
  is a gcló ina chroí i gcónaí is iad ag feitheamh
         Kālidāsa  कालिदास
leagan Gaeilge Gabriel Rosenstock

Waking


English version by W. S. Merwin & J. Moussaieff Masson

  Even the man who is happy
       glimpses something
       or a hair of sound touches him

       and his heart overflows with a longing
            he does not recognize

  then it must be that he is remembering
       in a place out of reach
       shapes he has loved

       in a life before this

       the print of them still there in him waiting

2013-10-28

Graifítí an Lae: Ciro Bustos

Tá filí ar nós an tírdhreacha, is ann dóibh fiú mura bhfuil éinne ag breathnú. Ní beo don duine ina n-éagmais.

Ciro Bustos (1932 - )

An Mhórcheist



AN MHÓRCHEISTTHE GREAT QUESTION
Muineál an lasairéin
comhartha ceiste ag dul sa treo eile

an raibh ceist ann an chéad lá riamh

(ní gá é seo a fhreagairt)

loinnir an uisce ina leánn
mórcheisteanna is mórfhreagraí an domhain
the neck of the flamingo
a question mark going the other way

was there ever a question in the first place

(no need to answer this)

the water shimmers and the great questions
and answers of the world disappear

2013-10-27

Graifítí an Lae: Alexander Berkman

Robálann an caipitleachas thú agus déanann sclábhaí tuarastail díot. Tacaíonn an dlí leis an robáil sin agus cosnaíonn sé í.
                              
      Alexander Berkman (1870 -1936)

Haiga

Íomhá Ron Rosenstock

fothraigh ó aimsir an Ghorta
á seachaint fiú
ag giorraithe
ruins from Famine times
even the hares
avoid them