Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Gloucester Sailboat For Sale

Alfred Capaliku

very conscious that a poem by Alfred Capaliku. There is still known as sudden stops and the description of real people and what surrounds it: all are part of a collection that hangs in a sense the poet and urges him to think about how people change with the changing world. His poetry is sometimes a complaint with the modernizing too fast and did not want people to see better what and how to make this modernization of the world every day. And this scrutinizing look and judge poet is in the "rhythm of the rain" which seems to indicate a tear of the heavens to see the decline of the world.


***


The goal

The dead wear new shoes because
walk on endless roads, scattered ognidove
desert mirages,
without traffic lights and white lines and poles, traffic and
unsupervised fashion mannequins ,
without passing the opposite direction as dunes,
to find the time, the exact recive. Over the hills
paved stone blocks used as
knock of horse hoofs,
hasten the tires as bumping into cars,
shatter the mirrors of luxury. How many new shoes are

been sold this year! Sybil

a word unanimous
"No Stop" with emphasis
modern language as a knife, without stopping the biblical
no trees, no birds that carry news from decorations.

upside down left right forward back - heaven, with angels
distracted with devils tempting,
under the terms of passers-by Dante.
They watch their doubts over the dust of the shoes that
falter as a chorus in the ancient empty
while off the skin, the foot remains bare.
Far is the goal for God, with
maze of hope opened by itself.


***


Skies marble


Sky marble
weightless
swallows against the current without
arrival

old memories
chewing smokeless,
stunt of trees over roads
odorless.

The white becomes blue,
black ink runs out.
The die is cast,
life is a game.

Rain, virgin tears, shattered
river,
disappears in mystery, as
shots without punishment.

The white is red, black
change color.
In the trap of the day,
life is a game.


***


Symbiosis

Two halves of life not make one,
even split from the cross of pain,
even multiply in the hope,
summed with themselves in poverty,
subtracted from the sky.
The man has the color of autumn woods,
two halves of life does not make it one.


***


Carnival

Day
carnival masks are everywhere,
under the rhythm of the rain, playing with air
smiling
imitate animals, insects, berries,
asymmetrically make accrobazie
to forget the masks of all time.





*** The happy season

As the winds blew season yesterday,
as if the spring would give a concert violinists among its
months
squares and streets in the suburbs.

How hurried lovers under umbrella, laughing
two by two,
and scattered among the green under the
rhythm of the rain.

All this happened yesterday, while waiting for you

near the bar and find your name written on the glass.

(Translations of Anila Resul Albanian)

*

Capaliku Alfred was born in Shkodra in 1952. Debutò with his poems already in high school. He graduated from the University of Tirana in Albanian Language and Literature in 1973. Then began working as a teacher in the city of Shkodra and Tropoja. E 'professor of Albanian literature at the University of Shkodra "Luigj Gurakuqi.
He has published several works including: - "Kenga and kantiereve" (poems "The Song of the yards"), Tirana, 1976 - "For njerezit and punes" (poems "To working people"), Tirana, 1980 - " Java pa ty "(poems" A week without you "), Scutari, 1995 -" At Vincenc Prendushi "(monograph," Father Vincent Prendushi "), Scutari, 1996 -" NJE perralla jave me "(prose for children" A week of fairy tales "), Scutari, 1998 -" Bernardin Palaja "(monograph), Scutari, 1999 -" Tregime for ty " (Prose stories for you "), Scutari, 1999 -" I levizje Muzik "(poems," Music in Motion "), Scutari, 2000 -" Ufoja dhe lulet "(poems for children" The UFO and the flowers "), Scutari , 2001 - "Gasper Pali" (monograph), Scutari, 2002 - "The Alphabets Mungu" (literary studies "The alphabet is missing"), Scutari, 2003 - "Ese studime dhe letra" (literary studies and essays, "Essays and Studies literature "), Scutari, 2005

Friday, April 13, 2007

Blueprint For Pontoon Trailer

Ko Un

will also be the paradox of paradoxes
but in reality I tell you
get poor people of today get tomorrow

poor countries not to America, get
agl ' American Indian
Somali women
news on the new century


*


the line of ants crossing the road in
horizon

perhaps to make us understand, little by little, today


tomorrow and again tomorrow
that this world is not
only in humans

burning light of noon the cuckoo stops singing *





some say you have memories of a thousand years ago
and who says he has already visited the thousand years in the future

a windy day I wait for the bus


*



to think of it more times I buried
why I
are many graves

ah, brag to be here!


*


today I spent my days as a story of someone

on the way home I watch the trees




* Poems taken from "Flower of a moment", published by the Home publishing "Cafoscarina", edited by Vincent D'Urso.


Born in 1933 in the region of Cholla-do province, is probably the most controversial and certainly the most prolific writers of contemporary Koreans. He has published over one hundred volumes of poetry, novels, essays, translations and drama. His poetry ranges from short lyric two lines to vast epics, like the one dedicated to Mount Paektu (Paektu-san) in seven volumes. Born to a poor family
when Korea was under Japanese colonial rule, he studied the Chinese classics and soon cultivated their own language, especially trained by his grandfather (then in Korean school children were forced to study and speak Japanese). The sad experience of suffering during the Korean War led him later to become Buddhist monaco, but after ten years, disgusted by the corruption found in that environment, he abandoned the monastic life and returned to the world with an attitude deeply nihilistic, culminating in 1970 in a suicide attempt. Who later became one of the main spokesman of the artists and students who opposed the dictatorial regime then in force, was arrested several times around the year 1980 and suffered imprisonment. In 1982, at age 50, married and went to live in the countryside away from Seoul.