Tadeusz Różewicz |
philosopher’s stone
by Tadeusz Różewicz
we need to put
this poem to sleep
before it starts
philosophizing
before it starts
fishing
for compliments
called to life
in a moment of forgetting
sensitive to words
glances
it looks to
a philosopher’s
stone for help
o passerby hasten your step
do not lift up the stone
there a blank verse
naked
turns
to ashes
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From a group of poems by Różewicz (translated by Joanna Trzeciak) published in the lovely Little Star Journal (see here and here).
Happy Birthday, Ed! Love that Don published your self-celebratory birthday poem at <a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2011/04/happy-70th-ed-baker-from-ed-baker-issa.html" rel="nofollow">Issa's Untidy Hut</a>. Issa would love it!
WOWOWOW!<br /><br />this Little Star Journal is located at<br /><br />(DIG THIS!)<br /><br />107 Bank Street<br /><br />http://littlestarjournal.com/submit.html<br /><br /><br />I just sent to them and to you an email explaining the VERY DEEP connection that I have to 107 Bank Street long about 1971/72.<br /><br />ciaoo, Ed