by guido monte
[ Once Terence’s Chremes: humani nil
a
me alienum puto, ‘ all that’s human,
it isn’t far from me ’ −
but
Hesiod’s visiting angels: idmen
pseýdea
pollà léghein etýmoisin omoia,
‘ ours are voices of credible
lies ’ −
at
last Pindar, dedaidalmenai
pseydesi poikilois
ecsapatonti mýthoi...‘ myths, mixed
with credible lies, confuse us...’ ]
1
When it’s caught up
every
little human illusion...
Wenn aus den
Weltenweiten
an ending voice
says:
«es medianoche...midnight»,
je reçois the
last black human clouds
d’un monde encore tout seul,
of a wars world alone
wars that can’t be off
2
Ting,
the
melting pot:
_______
___ ___
_______
_______
_______
___ ___
linn
the fire,
sunn the wind
on
this different way
où nous sommes des otages de l'obscurité,
where we’ re hostages of darkness
where we’ re hostages of darkness
(sed
Ezra: «nor are
here souls, nec personae...
nothing
matters but the quality
of affections»)
3
L’antico umore una volta
s’accese nel calore del sole
once the ancient mood caught life;
here
are the lands, vastes mondes,
“beithe luis nin” −
how many stars listen
to
the mutable human noises
et
dans un instant
you
must decypher un long espoir,
time
sweeping away the pale day −
dans
une terre loin de la terre
and
before chaos...
chaos,
the only cosmos’ face:
nous
ne sommes rien d’autre
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Beithe luis nin ( birch, ash, rowan) are the universal references of beth
luis nion , the first three letters of an ancient Celtic alphabet.
The verses of “Ezra”: Ezra Pound,
Canti Pisani (Pisan cantos), LXXVI.