*Star Haiku*

If you concentrate
the dark sky will show Venus
and two shiny stars

by Ian F
written in a tent in Iceland

Rimbaud's poetry - revisit

A little revisit to a poet that Vincent chose to speak about. We have had a comment sent to us which may be of interest as it includes another translation of the poem Vowels.....

George Dance said...
I've written my own translation of Rimbaud's "Vowels", which IMO compares favourably to the others extant, Allow me to give your readers a link.

http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2010/03/vowels-voyelles-arthur-rimbaud.html

Estonia Poetry revisit

Just to follow on from Ian's speech on Estonian poet Gustav Suits here is a small article on the poem on the Independance Monument in Tallinn.


The Poem on Eesti Vabadussammas
The poem in full can be found here ,but only...

The first part of the poem on the monument :

Tõsta lipp! Las aja käänul
lehvib tõotus tuulte väänul
üle mandri, üle vee:
tund on tulnud vannet vandu,
ei iial enam andu
ikke alla rahvas see!

quite untranslatable
word by word.

the main idea
that this (see)
nation (rahvas)
will vow
(in the poem 'tund (the hour)
on tulnud (has come)
vannet (the oath in 3rd form)
vandu (to vow)')
never (iial)
to be occupied
by anyone
any more
('andu ikke alla'
- really old
and poetic
way to say
'not be occupied').


Thank you to Katrin for this and her blog and more poems and such like can be found here