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bhairo in the morning skip to main skip to sidebar bhairo in the morning monday october 18 2021 la umanità nuova come the revolution our poems will all conform to the deepest ideal within the heart of man pure egalitarian esteem will become the norm that nurtures each through a long fruitful lifespan happenstance will join love s madcap caravan time itself assuming a mode gentle warm violence will cease to the spiritual plan come the revolution our poems will all conform each event of life will be seen as a petal unfolding in the perfect place at the choicest time we will be daily astounded how we re now beholding blussful wave on wave in a boisterous sea of glee humankind will at last have hit its winning spree like an alchemist whose crucible is a golding every thought being wreathed in gossamer poetry each event of life will be seen as a petal unfolding that an age of intuition will emerge to replace in time our era of rational thought that of such a fresh chapter we re on the verge that its rosy fragrance can e en now be caught that this is largesse from god not an ornament bought at the ted talk shop where oftentimes we ll splurge is a pearl through hide seek our souls have sought that an age of intuition will emerge now we find ourselves a sail on a novel voyage over waters dark toward an unknown haven of landing like a couple cloistered in their wedding carriage like a newborn who must crawl in lieu of standing like a slumberous dreamer suddenly at the ending of a nightmare like a vessel amid the boyage of an unknown port with darkling dusk descending now we find ourselves a sail on a novel voyage we assume the ego s conflicts are required to push forward in the narrative of our lives the same expanded keeps society fired for the thrust that drives our buzzing social hives yet the ones who into unity s ocean dive when they surface bring a vision so inspired it retools the route whereby our thoughts arrive to assume the ego s conflicts are required humankind is ready for a complete reboot like a noisy day that s ready for night s hush like a wilted flower ready for fine fruit like a gambler waiting for his royal flush like a californian in a new gold rush like a milkmaid hearkening lord krishna s flute like a field well sown awaiting verdure lush humankind is ready for a complete reboot that the new humanity can become our reality is a point worth adding to our computations yes we ve weathered many a scrape in rough duality having scuffled through a myriad reincarnations yet of revelations meriting contemplations let us use to quote cole porter our mentality review meher baba s bright prognostications that the new humanity can become our reality this rather ambitious poem contemplates the topic of the new humanity as described and predicted by meher baba in a discourse with that title first published i believe in the late 1930s posted by david raphael israel at 5 59 am 1 comment tuesday january 5 2021 of gentle maidens translated from the shi jing of gentle maidens she most fair awaits me by the wall s corner she i love but see not there i scratch my head a forlorner of gentle maidens she most comely brings a red hued reed to me the red hued reed indeed is lovely pleasing is the girl s beauty she yields from the meadow a soft leaflet truly lovely yea tis rare not that thou art comely but thou art the gift of one most fair i first translated this poem more than 40 years ago it came to mind today and i ve given it a fresh polish my prior rendering of verse 1 had been of gentle maidens she most fair awaits me by the wall i know she i love but see not there i scratch my head bewildered so my new translation of line 2 is more literal more accurate if i recall correctly arthur waley translated line 4 as i scratch my head and pace up and down the shi jing an anthology of ancient folksongs is traditionally believed to have been compiled by confucius he makes reference to some of the poems in some of his discourses this courtship poem has always struck me as quite special and i like how the poet addresses the leaflet gift in the 3rd stanza directly what sparked my recollection of this olden poem today a terse tweet what is the theme of this poem liking boy pascale palaces pascalepalaces 10 55 am jan 4 2021 posted by david raphael israel at 4 30 am no comments thursday december 31 2020 ghazal for janet fine too soon for trips don t leave this festive party the moon s eclipse would grieve this festive party we met along a road toward a rare concert the tablas taps retrieve this festive party you twirled in kathak as a whippersnapper must rudra s steps re weave this festive party you found a manuscript on pleasing women god s microfische conceived this festive party the dusk of palaces caught your affection you threw raj pipla s eve this festive party you sliced my heart critiquing my first movie don t seal your lips nor leave this festive party i still have tales to tell who ll understand me don t doubt my quips believe this festive party i won t be brief i ll flourish my bandana i ve got tricks up my sleeve this festive party the kiss of death they say is liberating reluctant lips receive this festive party the smile of tukaram lives in the painting newspaper clips frame jiv this festive party does bollywood recall one who first named her the skinnydips are brief this festive party mumbai cairo new york pearls for your piercing low budget trips don t peeve this festive party ellen sends love from yon out at east hampton there s contretemps with steve this festive party too swiftly time s page flits we were still reading the boat tips and upheaves this festive party the ghazal s wit wraps love in lamentation a form that fits the sleeve this festive party a million notes the soul jots on its journey we ve still chits to retrieve this festive party in haridwar there s aarti morn evening trays wave as shiv bereaves this festive party from raphael accept gratitude s bandish his note slips through the sieve this festive party posted by david raphael israel at 2 15 am 3 comments labels ghazal sunday december 27 2020 what birds express by han shan 寒山 what birds express my heart just cannot grapple with at such times i ll recline in my thatch hermitage the peach cherry blossoming scarlet scarlet the willow poplar spangling slender foliage the daybreak sun o er sailing azurite hills the limpid clouds awash in the kelly ponds who d guess i pass beyond the dust of worlds in swiftly ascending southerly han shan 鳥 語 情 不 堪 其 時 臥 草 庵 櫻 桃 紅 爍 爍 楊 柳 正 毿 毿 旭 日 銜 青 嶂 晴 雲 洗 淥 潭 誰 知 出 塵 俗 馭 上 寒 山 南 ________________________ some notes i ve repeatedly worked at polished my translation of the above poem now then over the past 40 years or so this fresh rendering was instigated when i recalled a couple relevant couplets from the han shan poem in the course of dashing out what became an almost mini essay in the form of a twitter thread late last night the impromptu twitter essay grew out of my initially one word response to a one sentence question posed by a literary acquaintance sridala swami who lives writes in hyderabad india han shan literally cold mountain was an otherwise anonymous except for his nom de plume poet of tang dynasty china believed to have flourished in the 9th century ad evidently he may originally have been some sort of petty official but apparently grew disgusted with worldly life and like other seekers influenced by chan zen buddhism in that era he precipitously withdrew from society residing as his collected poems attest for at least 30 years as a hermit at the eponymous remote mountain in suzhou province where he took to meditation with his shadow as his sole companion though sporadically he may ve gone down to chat with another poet recluse at a small temple below gary snyder translated line 1 of the above poem as i can t stand these bird songs about 40 years ago i rendered that line as what birds express my heart cannot endure till today i ve been satisfied with that version why did i alter the phrase in intervening years my sensibility has been schooled by exposure to farsi urdu poetics with those traditions ubiquitous use of baḥr cadence percolating into my poetry practice this cadence principle impacting how i write in or translate into english in the past couple decades today i felt i needed line 1 s cadence to better approximate line 2 s cadence and last night i newly re settled on thatch rather than grass or rustic etc for the character 草 cao re snyder s rendering of line 1 there s an idiomatic truth to it 情不堪 qíng bùkān commonly signifies i can t bear it while my old translation my heart cannot endure is arguably more literal if my latest rendering w grapple invokes a new image c est la vie i might add i owe much to snyder whose han shan translations along with burton watson s that s a pdf link invited me to read this exceptional poet in the original i remember first stumbling on a small edition large page printing of snyder s cold mountain poems at erstwhile shambhala bookstore on shattuck ave berkeley in the 1970s at times such chance meetings with certain books can have long consequences i think i only later albeit not much later began to appreciate snyder s own work in its own right but i digress in my above rendering of line 4 the poet s typical beautiful rigorous parallelism is admittedly partially obscured for sake of affording a suggestion of the poet s rhyming heard in the original but i d hasten to point the interested reader to my above linked essay where i offer a more literal ergo a more elegantly parallelistic translation of the parallelistic couplet lines 3 4 i might also add a caveat re lines 3 4 i m not 100 sure willow poplar represent as they seem to those two trees with ditto re peach cherry or whether contrarily these phrases could ve at han shan s time been e g terms signifying a single more specific conifer a single more specific fruit tree respectively regarding such lexical questions if uc berkeley s late prof edward schafer were around hypothetically he could ve been pestered to address the issue as he did many other obscure questions of tang dynasty language in his writings i only took one class from prof schafer and two classes from prof michel strickmann both of whom are now no more the loss of olden associates whether eccentric sinologists or one s immediate family friends is a theme familiar in han shan s poetry as in life re line 7 the phrase 俗塵 súchén which i render the dust of worlds is from the buddhist lexicon this wiktionary note suggests its general meaning or connotation to delve into this more deeply might require a new mini essay but not today p s in my essay comprised of tweets i didn t bother to translate the bengali utterance kolkatar gaan kolkatar pran a motto i d incessantly hear on radio when living some weeks in kolkata a dozen years ago it means calcutta s song s calcutta s life breath but sridala prob didn t need a translation for sake of thoroughness i append this footnote ________________________ this is my 1st blog post in abt 20 months glad to be back to bhairo in the morning in the morning i ll offer hat tips to han shan snyder watson professors schafer strickmann and sridala swami as well as new twitter met acquaintance joe lamport for spurring this prodigal s return posted by david raphael israel at 3 24 am 1 comment sunday april 7 2019 logging out ghazal simply to be at ease not in pain seems such a blessing simply to be not wholly down the drain seems such a blessing requisite for accomplishment is nuts bolts survival logging out from concerns of loss gain seems such a blessing multiple worlds the tragicomic soul perforce traverses knowing how god exists on every plane seems such a blessing from the first dawn far destiny was marked upon my forehead feeling at length the marker s darkling stain seems such a blessing somebody zoomed to storied heights others fell off the radar walking the hushed prosaic earth again seems such a blessing well you might ask that painter raphael where did he wander somewhere he s grinding plants for paint the twain seem such a blessing april 5 2019 posted by david raphael israel at 12 26 am no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me david raphael israel los angeles california united states dri occasionally tweets at raagatodi see also his earlier blog kirwani view my complete profile blog network join my blog network on facebook blog networks my other current blog padma bilawal a film blog my earlier blog kirwani with lots of sidebar links blog archive 2021 2 october 1 la umanità nuova january 1 2020 2 december 2 2019 1 april 1 2017 1 may 1 2016 1 june 1 2015 3 july 1 january 2 2014 37 december 6 november 2 october 2 september 2 august 2 july 3 june 2 may 3 april 2 march 7 february 4 january 2 2013 58 december 2 november 6 october 2 september 3 august 4 july 6 june 3 may 2 april 2 march 9 february 6 january 13 2012 96 december 11 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