the light- bringers...:Celan

m.cassapidis,2015

The bright stones

The bright
stones ride through the air, bright
white, the light-
bringers.

They want to
not sink, not fall,
not collide. They rise
up,
like slender
dog roses they break open,
they float
toward you, my gentle one,
you, my true one—

Celan

Look around: see how things all come alive—Celan

m.cassapidis, 2015

Speak You Too


Speak you too,
speak as the last,
say out your say.

Speak—
But don’t split off No from Yes.
Give your say this meaning too:
give it the shadow.

Give it shadow enough,
give it as much
as you see spread round you from
midnight to midday and midnight.

Look around:
see how things all come alive—
By death! Alive!
Speaks true who speaks shadows

Celan

lightplay

lightplay©fourteenth

We have come into this exquisite world
to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!

Hafiz

Remember your deepest name: Naomi Shihab Nye

©fourteenth

1.

Japanese teacher says:
At first light, rise.
Don’t hover between
sleep and waking,
this makes you heavy,
puts a stone inside your heart.

The minute you drift back to shore,
anchor. Breathe.
Remember your deepest name.




Naomi Shihab Nye
from Breaking the Fast

splash : Elizabeth Reninger

©fourteenth, 2009

splash


dawn's
baptism

gold light making
mountains fluid

again and again i melt
into You

(You turning might's
rivers into

bliss) receive the day's bright
touch as though

it were mine
with cupped hands offer

you This ...


Elizabeth Reninger

Συνείδηση φανέρωμα συγκίνησης περιπαίζεις τὴν ὕπαρξη

shore feathers      ©fourteenth

Συνείδηση φανέρωμα συγκίνησης

περιπαίζεις τὴν ὕπαρξη

Οἱ ἀγάπες τοῦ χρόνου

συχνάζουν τὰ τοπία σου

τρέμεις στὰ φύλλα τοῦ εἶναι

γεμίζεις τὸ σύμπαν

δὲν ξέρεις φυγὴ

ποθεῖς ταξίδια

Στὶς πλάτες σου φτερουγίζει ὁ κόσμος

φῶς σὲ λούζει ὁ ἥλιος.

Γιώργος Σαραντάρης

We forget so to remember

pebbles beneath sea surface     ©fourteenth

pebbles beneath   ©fourteenth