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Monday 19 June 2017

Green Chain Gang / José Emilio Pacheco: Three Poems

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 La Ventana, El Malpais, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárrage, June 2017

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 La Ventana, El Malpais, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, June 2017

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La Ventana, El Malpais, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, June 2017

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 La Ventana, El Malpais, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, June 2017

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 El Malpais, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, June 2017

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 El Malpais, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, June 2017

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 El Malpais, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, June 2017
 
José Emilio Pacheco: Three Poems

#8 | by kanrapee.chok

#8: photo by Kanrapee Chokpaiboon, 18 June 2017

#8 | by kanrapee.chok

#8: photo by Kanrapee Chokpaiboon, 18 June 2017

#8 | by kanrapee.chok

#8: photo by Kanrapee Chokpaiboon, 18 June 2017

Untitled | by ··Sonia Carolina··

La muerte sale por el oriente [Estado de México]: photo by **Sonia Carolina**, 5 June 2017

Untitled | by ··Sonia Carolina··

La muerte sale por el oriente [Estado de México]: photo by **Sonia Carolina**, 5 June 2017

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La muerte sale por el oriente [Estado de México]: photo by **Sonia Carolina**, 5 June 2017
 
Dichterliebe

La poesía tiene una sola realidad: el sufrimiento.
Baudelaire lo atestigua, Ovidio aprobaría
afirmaciones semejantes.
Y esto por otra parte garantiza
la supervivencia amenazada de un arte
que pocos leen y al parecer
muchos detestan,
como una enfermedad de la conciencia, un rezago
de tiempos anteriores a los nuestros
cuando la ciencia cree disfrutar
del monopolio eterno de la magia.
  

Dichterliebe

Poetry has just one reality: suffering.
Baudelaire attests to it. Ovid would approve
of such declarations.
And this, on the other hand, guarantees
the endangered survival of an art
read by few and apparently
detested by many
as a disorder of the conscience, a remnant
from times much older than ours now
in which science claims to enjoy
an endless monopoly on magic.


Untitled | by Tonasupo

[Untitled]: photo by Tonatiuh Cabello, 30 November 2012

Untitled | by Tonasupo

[Untitled]: photo by Tonatiuh Cabello, 30 November 2012

Untitled | by Tonasupo

[Untitled]: photo by Tonatiuh Cabello, 30 November 2012
 Alta traición

No amo mi patria.
Su fulgor abstracto
es inasible.
Pero (aunque suene mal)
daría la vida
por diez lugares suyos,
cierta gente,
puertos, bosques, desiertos, fortalezas,
una ciudad deshecha, gris, monstruosa,
varias figuras de su historia,
montañas
—y tres o cuatro ríos.
 
 

High treason

I don’t love my homeland.
Its abstract splendor
is beyond my grasp.
Still (though it sounds bad)
I’d give my life
for ten places there,
certain folks,
ports, forests, deserts, fortresses,
a city in ruins, ashen, monstrous,
various historical figures,
mountains
and three or four rivers.



Printing/Erasure | by ADMurr

Printing/Erasure [Echo Park, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 17 June 2017

Untitled | by netra nei

 [Seattle]: photo by netra nei, 20 May 2016
Los grillos

(Defensa e ilustración de la poesía)


Recojo una alusión de los grillos:
su rumor es inútil,
no les sirve de nada
entrechocar su élitros.
Pero sin la señal indescifrable
que se trasmiten de uno a otro
la noche no sería
(para los grillos) noche.


Crickets

 

(A Defense and Illustration of Poetry)

I retake an allusion by crickets:
their murmur is hopeless,
the chattering of their elytra
is of no use whatsoever.
Yet if not for the cryptic signal
they broadcast to one another
(for crickets) night would
not be night.

José Emilio Pacheco (1939-2014): Alta traición / High treason; Los grillos / Crickets; Dichterliebe: English versions by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez


Untitled | by patrickjoust

 [Berkeley, California]: photo by Patrick, October 2016

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 [Berkeley, California]: photo by Patrick, October 2016

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 [Berkeley, California]: photo by Patrick, October 2016


Black days of Ukraine: "Everything crumbles when war comes into your life." Civilians escape from a fire in a house hit during an air attack, in the village of Luhanskaya, Luhansk: photo by Velery Melnikov, 2 June 2014; image via World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto, 18 June 2017


A family walks past an overturned truck yesterday in Nebraska after a severe weather front passed through the area the previous evening.: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 18 June 2017


A German Shepherd puts a paternal paw on the shoulder of his son in 1948. #FathersDay: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 18 June 2017


In honor of Father's Day: image via Muhammed Muheisen @Muheisen81, 18 June 2017


In honor of Father's Day: image via Muhammed Muheisen @Muheisen81, 18 June 2017


In honor of Father's Day: image via Muhammed Muheisen @Muheisen81, 18 June 2017


In honor of Father's Day: image via Muhammed Muheisen @Muheisen81, 18 June 2017


A crowd of displaced people look as U.N. multi-national police provide security during Filippo Grandi's visit to camp in South Sudan.
: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 18 June 2017


SYRIA - YPG forces backed by a US-led coalition holds position in Raqa, the main stronghold of the IS group. Photo @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 June 2017


#France Chinese tourists make selfies in a lavender field in Valensol. Photo Boris Horvat #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 June 2017


#Indian Occupied Kashmir An elderly Indian Kashmiri man sits in front of closed stores in Srinagar. Photo @TauseefMUSTAFA #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 June 2017


#Indian Occupied Kashmir Kashmiri villagers watch the funeral procession for Lashkar-E-Toiba district rebel commander Junaid Matoo in Khudwani. #Indian Occupied Kashmir. Photo @TauseefMUSTAFA : image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 June 2017


#Italy People play with bumper cars before the show for Philippe Plein during the Men's Spring/Summer 2018 fashion shows in Milan. Photo @Mber12: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 19 June 2017


#India An Indian homeless man and a dog sleep next to a road in Bangalore. Photo @manjunath_kiran #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 June 2017


#France A festival goer attends the Hellfest heavy metal and hard rock music festival in Clisson. Photo @ludovic_marin: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 June 2017


  #Ukraine A woman cleans dummys on a balcony in Kiev. Photo  Sergei Supinsky #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 June 2017


#Iraq A displaced Egyptian woman who resided in Mosul carries an infant as she flees from the city's Al-Shifa district. Photo Mohamed El-Shahed: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 June 2017


#Iraq An Iraqi forces member inspects a building in the Shifa neighbourhood on the west bank of Mosul. Ahmad Al Rubaye #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 June 2017


#Belarus A Belarus' T-72 tank drives through a water obstacle during a tank biathlon competition at Stalin's Line museum near Minsk. Photo @sergeygapon: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 June 2017


#Iraq An Iraqi forces member holds a gun in the Shifa neighbourhood on the west bank of Mosul. Photo Ahmad Al Rubaye #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 June 2017


#Turkey A Syrian baby lies in a cart as his family break their fasting in Diyarbakir during the Ramadan. Photo @pironic2121 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 June 2017


#Colombia View of a member of FARC at the Transitional Standardization Zone Jaime Pardo Leal in Colinas. Photo @RAULARBOLEDA: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 June 2017


#India Pedestrians walk through a dust storm at the Sangam (confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers) in Allahabad. Photo @sanjaykanojia07: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 June 2017


#Philippines Members of SWAT patrol a neighborhood where evacuees from Marawi City are temporarily living in Iligan City. @herime23 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 June 2017


 #US A picture of the Mona Lisa painting hangs on the side of the Louis Vuitton Store on 5th Avenue in New York. Photo @timothyaclary: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 June 2017


#Sri Lanka A Muslim devotee attends Friday prayers during the holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in Colombo. Photo  Lakruwan Wanniarachchi #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 June 2017


#Iraq A displaced Iraqi boy carries a cage with pigeons as people arrive to a temporary camp in Mosul. Photo Mohamed El-Shahed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 June 2017


#Greece A man reads a newspaper next to a newspaper kiosk in central Athens. Photo @lgouliam #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 June 2017
 

 Demolition for new roads in Istanbul 1986 #AraGuler #photojournalism #streetphotography: image via Photojournalist @StoryofAraGuler, 16 June 2017

Green Chain Gang

Untitled | by el zopilote

 Bernalillo, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, June 2017

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 Bernalillo, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, June 2017

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 Bernalillo, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, June 2017

NGor architecture | by Gordan Sarson

 NGor architecture [Dakar]: photo by Gordan, 5 February 2016

NGor architecture | by Gordan Sarson

 NGor architecture [Dakar]: photo by Gordan, 5 February 2016

NGor architecture | by Gordan Sarson

  NGor architecture [Dakar]: photo by Gordan, 5 February 2016

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 Magdalena, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, June 2017

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 Magdalena, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, June 2017

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 Magdalena, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, June 2017

Waiting | by Gordan Sarson

 Waiting [Lanzarote]: photo by Gordan, 5 March 2016

Green Chain Gang | by Monty May (OBSERVE)

Green Chain Gang [Gun club party, Iserlohn]: photo by Michael May, 9 June 2017

Untitled | by netra nei

 [Untitled]: photo by netra nei, 9 April 2016

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 [Tacoma]: photo by netra nei, 20 May 2016

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 [Untitled]: photo by netra nei, January 2016

Back of India's Tandoori | by ADMurr

Back of India's Tandoori [Wilshire, Miracle Mile, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 11 June 2017

Granite | by ADMurr

Granite [Joshua Tree National Monument, California]: photo by Andrew Murr, 17 June 2017

Grand stairs to nowhere | by ADMurr

Grand stairs to nowhere [Cochran Ave, Miracle Mile, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 16 June 2017

D  ge van palm | by ADMurr

D ge van palm [Alameda, south LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 14 June 2017

Buxton Plastics burned shop | by ADMurr

Buxton Plastic burned shop [south LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 15 June 2017

Worldwide | by ADMurr

Worldwide [Edendale, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 12 June 2017

Friday evening, 2015 | by ADMurr

Friday evening, 2015 [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 18 June 2017

Security | by ADMurr

Security [south LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 18 June 2017

Monocle Caddy | by ADMurr

Monocle Caddy [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 6 February 2017

Southeast Phoenix Industrial Park | by GC_Dean

Southeast Phoenix Industrial Park. Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 3 January 2017

Southeast Phoenix Industrial Park | by GC_Dean

Southeast Phoenix Industrial Park. Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 3 January 2017

Southeast Phoenix Industrial Park | by GC_Dean

Southeast Phoenix Industrial Park. Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 3 January 2017

wasteland. goldfield, nv. 2016. | by eyetwist
 

wasteland, goldfield, nv, 2016. the vast tailings wasteland of mud and rocks below the ruins of the long-abandoned consolidated gold mill.: photo by eyetwist, 20 May 2016
 

Cloud canyon | by ADMurr

Cloud canyon [Zion National Park, Utah]: photo by Andrew Murr, 17 June 2017

3 comments:

TC said...

Thanks for your wonderful ethereal comments, came-and-went dead people! So consoling to know you've wafted through... if only we could hear you...

Always great to be reminded there's death during as well as after life, after all!!

Sandra said...

en medio del caos grandes poemas traen encanto esperanza y comunicación...!!

TC said...

Crítica de la poesía

He aquí la lluvia idéntica y su airada maleza.
La sal, el mar deshecho …
Se borra lo anterior, se escribe luego:
Este convexo mar, sus migratorias
y arraigadas costumbres,
ya sirvió alguna vez para hacer mil poemas.

(La perra infecta, la sarnosa poesía,
risible variedad de la neurosis,
precio que algunos pagan
por no saber vivir.
La dulce, eterna, luminosa poesía.)

Quizás no es tiempo ahora.
Nuestra época
nos dejó hablando solos.

-- Pacheco