Re: [Cz-L] Poetry

Dear Ruth,
thanks a lot for sharing this wonderful text : I put it in my Facebook page
about Moguilev Podolsky cemetery.
Yours
Sylvie

Sylvie Reicher Gsell
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2013/3/15 RUTH GOLD <glasgold_at_bellsouth.net>

>
> Since we are now in the mood for poetry, I have a small contribution to
> make.
> I hope you'll forgive my not-so-perfect translation.
>
>
> Transnistria
>
> Daca toate frunzele pamantului s-ar face hirtie, daca toate marile s-ar
> preface
> in cerneala, daca toate padurile s-ar preface in condee, daca toate
> vietuitoarele ar scrie indeajuns... Scriu despre supraqvietuitorii dela
> Vapniarca (Transnistria) si as vrea ca fiecare litera sa arda, sa arda ca
> ochii
> lor rataciti, ca fetele lor devastate, ca miinile tremurinde, ca pasii lor
> tirsiti, paralitici, ca trupurile lor inconvoiate si frinte.
>
> Aurel Baranga ( His real name was Leibovici, born 1913 dramaturgist, has
> been
> compared to the poet Caragiale.)
>
>
>
>
>
> Transnistria
> If all the leaves on earth would turn into paper, if all the seas would
> turn
> into ink, if all the forests would transform into pencils, if all the
> living
> would write enough... I write about the survivors ofVapniarka and I would
> like
> that every letter (character) should burn, should burn like their stray
> eyes,
> like their devastated faces, their trembling hands, their dragging feet,
> paralyzed, like their bent and broken bodies...
>
> Translated by Ruth Gold
>
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>
>
> Ruth Glasberg Gold

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