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Babel, From The Beginning
 

 

by Guido Monte

 

Multilingual Poetry

 

(1. Genesis; 2. Baghavad Gita; 3. Homer; 4. Dante; 5. Milton; 6. Rudel; 7. Dickinson; 8. Gospels; 9. Rosenzweig; 10. Goes; 11. Handke; 12. Hugo; 13. Shakespeare; 14. Upanishad-Eliot; 15. Baudelaire; 16. Dostoevski; 17. Dante; 18. Horace; 19. Blake; 20. Handke; 21. Basho; 22. Pirandello)

Pic: "all'orto botanico" - © 2010 Guido Monte - Size: 15k
all'orto botanico
© 2010 Guido Monte

 

 

(Swans - July 26, 2010)  

1               « tohu wabohu
2        na hanyate,
3          kat'asphodelion leimona
4            mi ritrovai per una selva oscura...
5              no light, but rather darkness visible
6        de terra lonhdana.

7            how well that we are blind...
8               talitha kumi
9           ins Leben...
10         Sie ist's, die sieht,
11              Meine Mutter,
12                la alma,
13             the rest is silence.

14       Om Shantih,
15              le Paradis n'est pas artificiel
16          son smeshnovo sheloveka
17             e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.

18              pulvis et umbra sumus
19              like a reflection in a glass...
20             der Horizont,
21                mizu no oto!
22       non conclude »

 

 

(« barren and void / that never dies, / on a grey prairie of asphodels / I got lost in a dark wood... / no light, but rather darkness visible / from distant lands. // how well that we are blind... / little girl, get up / to the life... / she is the one that can see, / my mother, / the soul, / the rest is silence. // peace, / no more fool's paradise / dream of a ridiculous man / thereby we went out again to see the stars. // we're dust and shade / like a reflection in a glass... / the horizon, / a sound of water! / it never ends »)

Picture: all'orto botanico, by Guido Monte (2010).

 

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