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purplespirit Echoes Family Member Posts: 5,455	Sometimes Jan 1, 2012 13:16:36 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by purplespirit on Jan 1, 2012 13:16:36 GMT -5 A very lovely piece and it is not felt as 'fragments from a original' but as a whole perfect poem which I enjoyed very much, thank you! Ulla xx

The Great Fulcanelli Echoes Full Member "Magic is the means by which we transform our own consciousness." Posts: 241	Sometimes Jan 2, 2012 8:46:07 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by The Great Fulcanelli on Jan 2, 2012 8:46:07 GMT -5 I actually fudged the translation - the meaning of this work is clearly not consistent with the original Portuguese :-> but i am indeed flattered to know that it did well by your standards.
	"The coming to presence of technology threatens revealing, threatens it with the possibility that all revealing will be consumed in ordering and that everything will present itself only in the unconcealedness of standing-reserve." — Martin Heidegger, Die Frage Nach Der Technik

michaelgallatin Echoes Family Member Posts: 4,782	Sometimes Jan 2, 2012 11:27:18 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by michaelgallatin on Jan 2, 2012 11:27:18 GMT -5 Very nice imagery, I like the wording a lot. A pleasure to read and much enjoyed. Happy New Year! Namaste, Mike

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Post by rrw on Jan 2, 2012 22:50:54 GMT -5

Yeah, It is diffently shorter than the original work. But the translation has some fine qualities. The since of singularity is strong... the feel for the emptiness of night and the hope that stars can fill the void is stunning to me. Lovely imagery.

johan Echoes Family Member Just me:The Watering Place of Good Peace can only be the long sleep of eternity. Posts: 4,464	Sometimes Jan 3, 2012 9:15:33 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by johan on Jan 3, 2012 9:15:33 GMT -5 Did click, excllently written my friend, great translation. Johan
	The Sad Sailor. Poetry by Johan (Andrew Shiston) can be found as a guest poet on the excellent site of writer and published poet JB Stillwater. www.jbstillwater.com Johan voted poet of the year 2007. My book 'A Bay of Skeletons' is now on sale at Author House My new book 'Diary of a Merchant Seaman' is now being published, out in the spring published by Casa De Snapdragon. JBStillwater (Jan