Tag: poems
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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 Stay away Cut out Cut out your needy Cut me down I’m Not cut out for it
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La mà que va signar el paper* (The Hand That Signed The Paper) by Dylan Thomas
(*Translated into Catalan below with Antoni Cardona) La mà que va signar el paper va enderrocar una ciutat; Cinc dits sobirans van posar taxes a l’alè, Van duplicar els morts a la terra i van partir pel mig un país; Aquests cinc reis van fer que morís un rei La poderosa mà porta a una…
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“The skin of a bull” by Salvador Espriu (My translation from Catalan*)
Sometimes it is necessary, essentialthat a man dies for a peopleBut an entire people must never diefor a single man:Remember this, Sepharad. Make sure to keep the bridges of dialogue safeand try to understand and lovethe different reasonings and tongues of all your children.Drop by drop, let the rain fall on the seedlingsand the air…
Brett Hetherington 