[New-Poetry] Poem for Anny

[Anny Ballardini]

Thank you, Bob, for having thought of me.

On the other side there is something that disturbs me in this poem.
Something connected with some poetry that comes from the East. A sort of
razor-like impression so well given back by Yukio Mishima first with his
work, and then through public seppuku mainly to be faithful to his
philosophy. A fearful distance from the body.
If I can admire the masterful use of the cinematic technique in the first
strophe, on the other hand I feel like suffocating with that flying in and
zooming out at the same time.
The second strophe with the removing of the wings just seals the poem into
its frozen state. I can't but gasp and look for air.
Also,
Who wants to be better than a bird? Why should I?


On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>wrote:

> Tia Ballantine sends poems regularly to a list I'm on.  The following was
> on it today:
>
>
> THE BIRD
>
> The sky flies the bird close in
> It flies him far away
> It erases the poppy-seed speck of him
> That is all the sky can do for him
> All we can do for him is to say
> "Birds fly"
>
> Dear Bird,
> Won't you remove both wings for me?
> Because I believe
> It's not simply having wings
> That lets you glide through the sky
> That lets you look so imperial
>
>        -- Hiroshi Kawasaki
>        -- From: Poems. Kokubunsha, 1968
>        -- translated: Takako Lento
>
>
>
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Anny Ballardini
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
star!
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