Poetic-Verses from ATHANASE
Deux fugaces impermanences du coeur (English)
In Impermanence The Heart Persists
To Ibrahim Kounanbaiev Abaï
‘ Why conceal the deepest laws of life?
They have no walls around them.'
Victor Hugo
1.
Mute matter, I speak your name
And you begin to vibrate,
I lend you my voice
And there and then you become music.
Mute matter, I caress you with my eyes
And, trembling with life,
You emerge from your dark anonymity!
The mist you appear from is an alien mist
And you speak to me in an alien tongue,
Matter!
This is how universal tenderness is written on the world!
O love of God,
Sole path through reality
Into the world's greatest mysteries!
2.
This tiny violet
On the rain-soaked path
Which opens beneath my gaze,
Unconscious of its own existence and of mine,
Touched through and through by my love,
Smiles and begins to dance,
Such joy, like a child free on the longest reins,
So as to give pleasure to the air, to the earth,
To the sun,
To my soul!
That violet, so fragile, so graceful
Held in the warm hand of God
Who cherishes its joy
More than anything in the world!
O the stainless souls who dwell
On that lily white Archipelago!
Translated from the French of Athanase Vantchev de Thracy by Norton Hodges
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Deux fugaces impermanences du coeur (English)
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