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Romani Folk PoemEditor's Note: Rita Banerjee, co-director of the Cambridge Writers' Workshop (CWW), wrote the following mis/translation poems during the CWW's Yoga and Writing Retreat in Verderonne, 2014. Mis/translation is a creative writing invention exercise during which a poem is performed aloud in a "foreign" language that none of the participants can speak. The participants then provide a "mis/translation" of the performed poem based entirely on the feel and sound of the words. Check out the CWW's Writing & Yoga Retreats in Paris, France and Granada, Spain this summer. The application deadline for both retreats in May, 25th. You may also enjoy the CWW interview with Quail Bell Magazine. Ederlezi (Mis/translation of the Romani (Gypsy) folksong/poem) Salve Roma, save, Soul Roma-- some call me Roma or a killer or a killer, defiant killer, my love’s dying my love’s defying, my love’s dying idyllically… Soul Roma…dying Soul Roma, papa, papa, is dying idyllically, see- idyllically, see- Soul Roma’s dying
Kaddish
(Mis/translation of a Hebrew prayer) It’s gold, it’s Kaddish, a chimera. My mother decides: it’s over. Mercurial, the bird is burnt. overturn Israel. be my god. Carry the fever: amen. A man shivers bare, or the maze almanacs, lightning strikes-- Be it Roman, be it Tartar, be it Allah, or blood On roads, bare-hoofed: broken A Hymn to Beauty Mis/translation of "Hymne à la Beauté" by Charles Baudelaire Veal on the ceiling on the beam, a defiant formality. confusing verse on the cream understood or go-- A sleeping room, the debasement is a filter, the sleep’s an error, sort through the comfort, the courageous woman, the Seine’s overturned with disaster-- Disaster? That’s nothing! the hour’s not charming, the monster allows sleep and the dead plant: the dance of love, beautifully flaming enormous monster & a frying ingénue The feet, finally, I know orange compote: the love I knew, fake azure, red phantom the liver on the bed in an instant, I think, is disaster #Unreal #Poetry #Yoga #JuiceCleanse #CWW #PreThanksgiving #Translation #Baudelaire #Roma #Romani #Gypsy #Kaddish #Hebrew #Prayer
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