Tag: catalonia
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“Canigó:” Our translation of Verdaguer’s Catalan classic poem
A extract of the epic in English Canigó (fragment) Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902) [Translated from Catalan by Brett Hetherington and Antoni Cardona]Of Romanesque altars there were no trace.Of the Byzantine cloister nothing remains:alabaster sculptures fell downand the candle is fading like a celestial bodythat in Canigó will never be lit again.Like two giants of a holy…
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Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, left the port of Barcelona this afternoon
Thanks to @DiEM25official Barcelona group
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“Sunrise from the south” (a new poem with Catalan translation)
Behind the treesAway from the darkIn just one little cornerA patch of childhood blue skyBut each time I looked up from my tea and cakeIn only seconds travelling west fast It accosted meEven shamed meUntil the pale patch in mere minutesHad migrated into a couple of fluffed bars low Down on the horizon madeBy the…
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90 seconds exactly
(My translation from the Catalan original “Tot just noranta segons” with the author, Antoni Cardona) When Nadia was running downstairs from the 6th floor, doing up her dressing gown, cursing the wind and her mistake she came across the boy from door 4, floor 4 the one who never says good morning She put the…
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Pandemic poem
(30 Jan. 2022) cut down cut down to bone cut off to spite it and cut off from cut away to put away just to stay away cut out cut out your needy cut me down I’m not cut out for it
Brett Hetherington 