re: Hans Sachsens poetische Sendung - Great findOdd, I was expecting a non-rhyming scheme in the original German for some reason.
Attempted a side by side Poem / Google translation / Interpretation document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...it?usp=sharing
Granted the Google translation may be imperfect, though far surpassing anything I could come up with, but one can see the liberties taken between the Poem and its interpretation.
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Wow! That poem really inspired you tailor! I´m just in the middle of what I call half moving activity packing books, and other things and cleaning furniture. Tomorrow if all goes well, a truck will take more of half my belongings, including all my physical books away.
As soon as possible I´ll take a close look at your (or Googles) translation.
Meanwhile here is the English link on Hans Sachs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Sachs
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Good work, tailor! I think the merit of this interpretation was to reproduce the spirit of the original even taking some liberties with it. I became curious who the translator might be. I found the blog with the interpretation but I didn´t find the name of the translator.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
There seems to be much more in the poem of Sarina Romero. The poem imitates a prose text, but the image of the canvas driven in to the sea predominates. It's perhaps about our historical American contradictions that cling to us. Did you know that Sarina Romero is from California?Originally Posted by tailor STATELY
"K WAS SUPPOSED TO COME WITH THE KEY, I WAS" K WAS SUPPOSED TO COME WITH THE KEY, I WAS (Danish poem by Ulrikka S. Gernes, translated into English by Canadian poet/translators Per Brask and Patrick Friesen)
https://griffinpoetryprize.com/poem/...the-key-i-was/
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
No I didn't know Sarina Romero's origins. I read she's from Oakland, CA... I worked in Oakland very briefly and lived in Southern Alameda County, same county as Oakland, from 1969-1976... High School years, brief College stint, and first marriage. Sarina appears very young; her linkedin page shows her interest in Education and has since relocated to New York.
She alludes to a massacre in Mexico at Tlatelolco in a 1968 protest prior to the Olympic Games... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre as well as... the 3000 years of heritage ?Tlatelolco has marked the history of massacres and national injustice in Mexico in other historical ways which have permeated the arts such as it being a place of Aztec sacrificial performances, being the place where the Aztecs surrendered to the Spanish, and giving way to legitimizing the genocide of indigenous people in Mexico.[28]
"the image of the canvas driven in to the sea" is a grand statement.
Interesting poem about relationship change. Ulrikka Gernes bio... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poets/ulrikka-gernes
"Living is no laughing matter:" - Nazim Hokmet; On Living... https://www.poetrycat.com/nazim-hikmet/on-living
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
re:Sarina Romero, thanks for the information. She doesn´t have a wikipedia page but she seems to be from Oakland, California.
"On Leaving". A beautiful poem full of sensibility.
"O Merlin in your crystal cave".Merlin by Edwin Muir
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/merlin/
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Enjoyed
"Not tired of 'earin' stories! You're a nailer, so you are!" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Groom's Encore... https://www.poetrycat.com/arthur-con...-grooms-encore
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
re: Book Title Game I think it was.
Enjoyed Conan Doyle´s poem very much, specially the language!
"Out of Wonder World I think you come;"From Wonder World by Kate Greenaway
https://www.poetrycat.com/kate-greenaway
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
"Out of Wonder World..." Precious little poem; copied it for an occasion for my great-granddaughter (with proper credit to the author of course)... maybe for Easter
"Past the despairing wail" - Friedrich Schiller; Elysium.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com.../elysium-30714
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Enjoyed Elysium!
Poem Quebec by Jean Blewett.
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/quebec-1
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"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Great-Grand Daughter is 1 / Great-Grandson is 4
Enjoyed Quebec... "The white doves perch upon the cannons grim,
The flowers bloom where once did run a tide
Of crimson, when the moon rose pale and dim
Above the battlefield so grim and wide."
"red rock giants" - Micaela Merryman; 34°54’15’’ N 111°47’30’’ W... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...15-n-1114730-w
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
re:Grandkids old enough to enjoy poetry; GGkids occupied in producing it!
Enjoyed Merryman's sharpness!
"In Sleeping Beauty's castle" Immortality by Lisel Mueller
https://www.poetrycat.com/lisel-mueller/immortality
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Enjoyed Lisel Mueller's retrospective in S2
"Tree, tree" - Federico García Lorca; Arbolé, Arbolé... https://poets.org/poem/arbole-arbole
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Enjoyed the bilingual poem "Tree, tree" very much.
" Under an arch of glorious leaves I passed"."Michael Oaktree" by Alfred Noyes
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/alfred-noyes
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
A thoughtful and majestic poem on life
"Vital spark of heav'nly flame," - Alexander Pope; The Dying Christian To His Soul... https://www.poetrycat.com/alexander-...an-to-his-soul
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
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