tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8687183466733251273..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Darwish: Rita and the RifleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87404510561000568232010-06-20T07:23:27.587-07:002010-06-20T07:23:27.587-07:00Beautiful.Beautiful.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-58467699723679178192010-06-20T04:34:43.112-07:002010-06-20T04:34:43.112-07:00Rita was rain
and the rifle
an umbrella
Sohra...Rita was rain<br />and the rifle <br />an umbrella<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Sohrab Sepehri says,<br /><br />چتر ها را باید بست،<br />زیر باران باید رفت.<br />فکر را،خاطره را،زیر باران باید برد.<br />با همه مردم شهر،زیر باران باید رفت.<br />دوست را زیر باران باید دید.<br />عشق را،زیر باران باید جست.<br />زیر باران باید با زن خوابید.<br />زیر باران باید بازی کرد.<br />زیر باران باید چیز نوشت،حرف زد،نیلوفر کاشت.<br /><br />we should close the umbrellas<br />we should go under the rain<br />we should take the thoughts, the memories into the rain<br />with all the people of the city<br />we should go under the rain<br />we should meet the friend under the rain<br />we should look for love under the rain<br />we should sleep with the woman under the rain<br />we should play games under the rain<br />under the rain<br />we should write... <br />talk... <br />and plant lotus...human beinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09232419187783429903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83360154714798419472010-06-17T18:54:24.813-07:002010-06-17T18:54:24.813-07:00Sandra, Lo sentimos, Blogger es lento aquí. (Pero ...Sandra, Lo sentimos, Blogger es lento aquí. (Pero yo soy lento también por lo que no puede quejarse).<br /><br />Darwish es un fenómeno raro, un gran poeta cuyos poemas son canciones y cuyas canciones tal vez nos dicen más sobre la historia de los libros de historia.<br /><br />Más, puede ser, de lo que todavía puede entender ...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-61630308992721829542010-06-17T12:01:06.391-07:002010-06-17T12:01:06.391-07:00CJ, Rita might be a cat.
Stay tuned for a surefir...CJ, Rita might be a cat.<br /><br />Stay tuned for a surefire kitty tomorrow. It may be hidden, so I hope you like cat puzzles. <br /><br />(Yesterday was a bit sticky, medical/pharmaceutical/infernal bureaucratic healthcare businesses, all very bad for kitty stuff -- don't think your request was not on my mind however.)<br /><br /><br />Elmo, the vocal in any region may be the loudest and even the bloodiest, but there are also the serious, quiet ones. They're the ones I would always prefer to listen to, in or from any region.<br /><br />As for swords, I dunno, the guys who own that part of the world have a pretty big arsenal, and they make all the rules, so to them a Bic razor maybe sometimes comes out looking like a sword, and then out roll the the choppers and the tanks. Takes two to make a paradise. <br /><br /><br />Steve, that latest entry is pristine as a freshly oxygenated aquatic bubble. <br /><br />And so cometh the day, I think. (On no sleep it is not always easy to tell, until, that is, your morning poem arrives.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57935043635997516452010-06-17T11:46:03.033-07:002010-06-17T11:46:03.033-07:00maravilloso Darwish...maravilloso! me encantó!maravilloso Darwish...maravilloso! me encantó!Sandra.ifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07861930312460679629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-39105969813710771352010-06-17T08:31:06.784-07:002010-06-17T08:31:06.784-07:00Tom,
Something here as 'echo' of "Ea...Tom,<br /><br />Something here as 'echo' of "Earthrise from Apollo 8 (hope things are good over there. . . .) --<br /><br />hey, saw that first edge of sun rising again (almost an hour ago), crows and quails and hawks and sparrows calling. . . .<br />what a day of swimming yesterday, we didn’t get home until after 7 (w/ detour through San Rafael after leaving pool, then returning to pool for another swim before heading back — not surprising he’s still sound asleep. everything seems to fit (placewise) in this one ---<br /><br />6.17<br /><br /> <br /><br />first silver edge of sun above shadowed<br /><br />plane of ridge, motion of sunlit leaves<br /><br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> <br /><br /> presence of objects, project<br /><br /> appearance of landscape<br /><br /> <br /><br /> in motion of elements, first<br /><br /> this happened, abstract<br /><br /> <br /><br />cloudless blue sky reflected in channel,<br /><br />white wingspan of osprey across from itSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-56690750953607237102010-06-16T07:22:03.056-07:002010-06-16T07:22:03.056-07:00Tom,
Thanks for these links -- further 'notes...Tom,<br /><br />Thanks for these links -- further 'notes' on Darwish, bringing yet another world into presence here --<br /><br />6.16<br /><br />first grey light in sky above blackness<br />of ridge, silver of planet above branch<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> “different” color of subject,<br /> preserved “composition”<br /><br /> something unconcealed, which<br /> it is, come to presence<br /><br />cloudless blue sky reflected in channel,<br />whiteness of tern circling toward pointSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-36237197707331397352010-06-15T18:40:35.929-07:002010-06-15T18:40:35.929-07:00beautiful love poem amidst war
heard Ken Rexroth ...beautiful love poem amidst war<br /><br />heard Ken Rexroth read many years<br />ago about the slaughter of sea lions mating on an island off Alaska<br /><br />the punch line which I heard when young<br />and have retained<br />"if you want to make love,control<br /> your environment"<br /><br />there is no reason why the Middle<br />East is not a paradise<br /><br />last I checked the vocal in that<br />region still claim "the sword" as<br />an important part of their religionElmo St. Rosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88162351254964718902010-06-15T16:34:18.275-07:002010-06-15T16:34:18.275-07:00I don't know who Rita is, but she's not a ...I don't know who Rita is, but she's not a cat!<br /><br /><br />Any cat poems please? (Haven't seen any for a long long long time!)<br />MeowCjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17579501780380982697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33697610693833823472010-06-15T07:55:20.206-07:002010-06-15T07:55:20.206-07:00Don,
This earlier performance has more traditiona...Don,<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CneRR_RQsNU" rel="nofollow">This</a> earlier performance has more traditional instrumentation. Here the audience participation is in fact a part of the performance. Also very, very eloquent and moving. <br /><br />(Biographical readings can be limiting with any poem and particularly so with poetry of this level of connotative resonance. But it's been pointed out and is perhaps useful to know that the "original" of Rita was an Israeli girl Darwish fell in love with in Haifa in the 1960s, when in his early twenties.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-5608203583256324202010-06-15T06:02:10.829-07:002010-06-15T06:02:10.829-07:00Thanks for the links. Amazing performance ... and ...Thanks for the links. Amazing performance ... and if anything can be better than the music, it is when so many people in the audience join in, knowing each and every word. The singing brings another dimension to the poem and the unabashed love from the audience is beyond dimension.<br /><br />Also, absolutely loved "I'm From There."<br /><br />crying<br />to return the sky<br />to<br />its mother,<br /><br />Oh, yes.Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-52185943356040888862010-06-15T05:35:02.123-07:002010-06-15T05:35:02.123-07:00Don,
Word.
I think you would appreciate the tre...Don,<br /><br />Word. <br /><br />I think you would appreciate the tremendous performance of the poem by the great Marcel Khalifa to be found <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2onei_marcel-khalife-rita-et-le-fusil" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />(And another poem by Mahmoud Darwish is <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/darwish-im-from-there.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-4255917406967762992010-06-15T05:08:45.113-07:002010-06-15T05:08:45.113-07:00Beautiful and devastating all at once ...
"...Beautiful and devastating all at once ... <br /><br />"The way a sparrow remembers a stream ..."Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.com