2014, day after day

[Anthea]

For the moment, only 3 : France, Turkey and Italia. Let's hope that one day, I will be translated in Kurdish… and in English

But you keep writing fantastic boos and I cannot read them

I imagine that you have a large readership in Turkey among the Kurds

Have you been invited to to sunny Italy for a book signing tour?

[Piling]

Not yet, the book is just published. If it has success, who knows ?

[Piling]

Sometimes I would like a world with one single head then I will crash it in one shot.

[Piling]

Peshmerga from Rojava trained in Bashûr. Too bad that PYD refuses them to enter in their own country.

[Piling]

Valentine Day



As I am currently working to translate one of Melayê Cizîrî's poem, I might post it in English here, if I have finished before the end of the day

[Anthea]

Valentine Day

As I am currently working to translate one of Melayê Cizîrî's poem, I might post it in English here, if I have finished before the end of the day

I love poems

[Anthea]

Colin did not send me a valentine card - perhaps it got lost in the post

[Piling]

The Heart is One, then Love will be One, to Lovers, a single Beloved is enough.
There is one Qibla*, to the wounded hearts, a single Beauty is enough.

* Direction of Mecca

My heart, slave of a lock, is in the Pîr* of Love's hand.
In love, binding the ihram** with a ***zonar is enough.

* Mystical Master,
** Pilgrim's dress in Mecca.
** Special belt wearing by Christians as a distinctive sign of lower-status.


Forms, shapes are, one by one, cross and zonar
For me, a zonar and a single cross are now enough

Some come from covent, others go to synagog
I am not like these and those, the door of Tavern is enough.

While at every dawn, a hundred of sweet-sounding reeds go to dance and sema
Among the assembly of sweet fairies, the Sweet-with-good-manners for me is enough

*Sufis' dance

Ah ! How precious are these jewels dressing body and soul !
But among these huri-being, this fairy-face is enough.

I have no desire for the Golden Calf if this plait is dark.
The eyes are binding to the Pretties but a lock of this race-horse is enough.

Nightingales look at hundred roses, they watched hundred roses,
In the garden of roses, a single one for me is enough.

In the rose market I saw a strange and unbelievable picture :
Scars of rose thorns in the hands : for a rose-worshipper, thorns are enough !

This torment is vanished front of the borders of your Tyranny, spread until China.
Were you never pity, O Cruel, this pain is enough !

Vortices in the sea are sins, the thirst of divine grace is the truth.
The generosity of the Merciful and the light of the Redemptory are enough !

For ever, people in the world will be your foes, Mollah,
If your defender is Ali the Lion of Desert, that's enough !

Sorry for the poor English, I translated it quickly and I was disturbed by a lunatic from Erbil .

[Piling]

I've found an Emma version from 1996, but could not watch it longer. Knightley is old and ugly !




Let 's compare with these gentlemen :

[Anthea]

Jeremy Northam is sexy

[Piling]

Until now, he is my favorite Knightley.

[Anthea]

I saw this and thought of Piling

A veterinary surgery has taken the unusual step of treating a cat's arthritis through sessions in a swimming pool.

Fourteen-year-old feline Morph has one hydrotherapy session a week to help ease painful joints.

Jo Scott, principal at South Coast Hydrotherapy School, based at Verwood Hydrotherapy Centre in Wimborne, Dorset, said it usually reserves the treatment for dogs.

But after an initial unsure start, staff said Morph is now doing circuits with a "doggy paddle stroke".

Link to BBC Video:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-26231292

[Piling]

Fortunately Piling has no arthritis, for I am sure he HATES baths !

[Piling]

49 ghazal of Cizîrî translated. Tomorrow, I will attack the 50th.

But that is only the first translation. Then will follow the re-checking, then making it read by other peoples, then when I will be sure of the exact meaning, the big challenge will start : How to translate so beautiful poetry in another language, and reach a balance between Beauty and Truth in a translation ?

[Anthea]

49 ghazal of Cizîrî translated. Tomorrow, I will attack the 50th.

But that is only the first translation. Then will follow the re-checking, then making it read by other peoples, then when I will be sure of the exact meaning, the big challenge will start : How to translate so beautiful poetry in another language, and reach a balance between Beauty and Truth in a translation ?

Is that the same poem you were translating earlier ?

The Heart is One, then Love will be One, to Lovers, a single Beloved is enough.
There is one Qibla*, to the wounded hearts, a single Beauty is enough.