marți, 23 octombrie 2007

cununi

Se veştejeşte-o cunună de flori pe fruntea Heliodorei;
Dar ea străluceşte şi pare cununa acelei cununi!

meleagros, coroana lui meleagros, 143, v

luni, 22 octombrie 2007

monday a.m.

I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

emily dickinson

vineri, 19 octombrie 2007

miercuri, 10 octombrie 2007

for far away friends


London, thou art of townes A per se.
Soveraign of cities, seemliest in sight,
Of high renoun, riches and royaltie;
Of lordis, barons, and many a goodly knyght;
Of most delectable lusty ladies bright;
Of famous prelatis, in habitis clericall;
Of merchauntis full of substaunce and of myght:
London, thou art the flour of Cities all.

william dunbar, in honour of the city of london

luni, 8 octombrie 2007

de luni

she
stolen from my bone
is it any wonder
i hunger to tunnel back
inside desperate
to reconnect the rib and clay
and to be whole again

some need is in me
struggling to roar through my
mouth into a name
this creation is so fierce
i would rather have been born

lucille clifton, adam thinking

vineri, 5 octombrie 2007

...

Again, in the north there was a church called that of Arsamosata, which was very strongly built and beautifully decorated. On a fixed day in each year, namely on the day of the commemoration of the martyrs who were deposited in it, many used to gather together thither from all quarters, partly for prayer and partly for traffic; for great provision was made for the people who were assembled on that occasion. When there was a great crowd collected of men and women and children, of every age and class, there were terrible flashes of lightning and violent peals of thunder and frightful noises; and all the people fled to the church, to seek refuge with the bones of the saints. And while they were in great fear, and were engaged in prayer and service at midnight, the church fell in and crushed beneath it the greater part of the people who were in it. This happened on the same day on which Nicopolis fell.

Joshua the Stylite, Chronicle composed in Syriac in AD 507

miercuri, 3 octombrie 2007