Saturday

Trouvé dans la traduction, d'une certaine façon

First ever post. What to write? I searched my brain. Several years ago I wrote a small poem. Climbing down from my tall fig tree the other night I whispered it to myself over and over like a mantra, gradually becoming aware that it sounds like a translation, like a poem that was written in another language and badly translated into English. Well, it may be rough but I love it, so I’ll post it, and I’ve translated it (with lots of assistance) so you can hear for yourself.

J'ai peint le ciel
Avec le sang de mon coeur,
Pompé par chaque pouce de mon corps,
Comme le ciel.

I've painted the sky
With the blood from my heart,
Pumped through every inch of my body,
Just like the sky.

There. That relieves the pressure of the first post, very good. I hope to use this as a space to share some of the things that inspire me, or that jump around inside my head and remain long enough to be captured...and translated.

1 Comments:

Blogger porfiry said...

I am so glad to have been there for your first post! The problem with blogs is that they attract readers. And, well, readers always want more...

Write on you monkey, write on!!

:)

6:50 PM EST  

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