mcassapidis, 2013

November light

©mcassapidis, 2017

Φεβρουάριος/February

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent van Gogh

©m.cassapidis, 2015

Night on the Great River: Meng Hao-jan [three translations]

©m.cassapidis,2014

Night on the Great River

Moored in island mist,
as the sun sets, a traveler's grief arises.

Beyond the great plain, the sky closes on trees.
On this gentle river, the moon arrives.

[translated by Sam Hamil]

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Steering my little boat towards a misty islet, 
I watch the sun descend while my sorrows grow:
In the vast night the sky hangs lower than the treetops,
But in the blue lake the moon is coming close. 

[translated by William Carlos Williams]


We anchor the boat alongside a hazy island.
As the sun sets I am overwhelmed with nostalgia.
The plain stretches away without limit.
The sky is just above the tree tops.
The river flows quietly by.
The moon comes down amongst men.
 
[translated by Kenneth Rexroth]



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october's last fig leaves

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standing

standing  ©fourteenth

I Am Not I

By Juan Ramón Jiménez

Translated By Robert Bly

 

I am not I.

                   I am this one

walking beside me whom I do not see,

whom at times I manage to visit,

and whom at other times I forget;

who remains calm and silent while I talk,

and forgives, gently, when I hate,

who walks where I am not,

who will remain standing when I die.

Juan Ramón Jiménez, “‘I Am Not I’” from Lorca and Jiménez: Selected Poems. Translation copyright © 1973 by Robert Bly. Reprinted with the permission of Beacon Press.


Source: Lorca and Jimenez: Selected Poems (Beacon Press, 1973)

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Αίπος

Αίπος ©fourteenth

Ναός το Αίπος.

Αξεχώριστος τώρα,

ναός μες στ' άστρα.

Ν. Γ. Χούλης

από την ποιητική του συλλογή Τόπος Γυμνός, 2012

orange-filled

Orange-filled field