Tuesday 28 May 2013

Ode to the Humblest of Flowers









Dandelion, ecumenic flower,
 the year obeys
your golden ardor
 to assign its happiest days
on unwritten folios.

You are worthy of a hymn,
 unregarded roadside bloom,
your one pure wish to sow
 the earth with seed --
so you blossom and fade,
 contriving the halo around
some unknown saint’s head.


Lucian Blaga, tr. by James Owens 






































Odă simplisimei flori

Păpădie, ecumenică floare,
după a ta aurie ardoare
– pe nescrisele file –
anul îşi hotăreşte fericitele zile.

De un pean te-nvredniceşti,
tu, neluată în seamă, floare de rând.
Sămânţă să faci pe pământ
e tot ce doreşti. Alt gând nu porţi.
Dar înfloreşti şi asfinţeşti
alcătuind o aureolă de sfânt.






Monday 20 May 2013

the solace of flowers








and then the colours came, and with them my endless fascination with vases - my vases full of flowers, again and again... i read in Kafka's letters to Felice that he "has no feelings for flowers", never had, flowers leave him cold, unless they come from her, and even then... 
some pages later, i read: "with the effort needed in order to keep myself alive and to not lose my mind, i could have built the pyramids". 

if only he had known the solace of flowers, it nearly burst out of me, if only ---














Tuesday 14 May 2013

and off into the empty sky













you will be able to see more photos from my travel to Japan on the new blog that i have created for telling the story of my trip:  

and off into the empty sky