Sunday, May 26, 2019

The Brown mug

                          
                                   The Brown Mug


              As I contemplate

              The brown mug,
,,
               That I made some

                Sixty years ago,

               I feel vertigo -

               Stare dizzily

               Over life's panorama -




               How times' topography

               Has deceived us -

               By its slow increments,

              Time has made 

              A seamless passage,

             Towards today.

             Places people, family-

              Rainbow bubbles

             That hold us, then break -




              And yet I remember

              As a young man,

              Centering the clay

              On the spinning wheel -

              Feel my fingers forming

              The sides of the brown mug.

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Because I now have Nederlands citizenship I thought that I should make the effort to translate (with the help - lot of help from Maaike ) And anyway its great to see something translated ,it seems different ,often in a good way MAYBE I HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED !.




                                  Rivier


             De rivier stroomt 

             Door mijn aderen,

             Op het ritme van

             Mijn ademhaling -

             Soms zingend in

             Het zonnenlicht,
  
             Dan weer verdwijnend

             In donkere grotten -


            De verborgen kracht

            Die alles in leven houdt

            In zijn goedheid ,

            Drijvend -

            Een concerto grosso -

            Naar de oceaan

            Van oneindigheid -

            

Lino and mono print -entitled -River.( see poem below )



Wednesday, May 15, 2019

River


                                       River


                     
                    The river moves
                     
                      Within me -

                              Through the arteries, 

                               In the rhythm

                     Of my breathing-

                    Sometimes singing

                    In the sunlight 

                   Or falling deep

                   Into dark caverns -



                  The hidden energy

                  That maintains

                   All livingness

                  In its beneficence -

                  Moving on and on

                  A concerto grosso -

                 Towards the ocean

                 Of its endlessness -