Showing posts with label transcreation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transcreation. Show all posts

Monday, November 23, 2015

Playing with Lalla G:41. Breathing

From which four winds did I arrive
and what passageway was taken? 
With what wind do I go
and by which passage leave? 
Here I waited for my vital life instructions—
for empty breath has little value.

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Playing with Lalla G:106. Sleep

Asleep, confused, I dreamt I was a riverboat and being
towed across the ocean by a single strand of some belief.
I sang O Shiva will you hear me; will you help me in my crossing?
And then I dreamt the sea was seeping through this clay container
like some precious sand that's falling through an hourglass.
I sang O Shiva will I have the time to get back home to you?
Or do I sink before I see we are one sea and be awake?

my playful transcreation of Grierson's translation & commentary no.106
of Lalla (Lal Ded) while also utilizing those of Hoskote, Barks, and Kak

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Playing with Lalla G:98. Coin

They say we arrive in this world 
by a way that is not the way. 
You can’t take it with you of course, 
so only by selling my soul to the ferryman 
do I cross the river to the land of karmic rebirth.
O, but with Shiva's name I'm suddenly unborn
to see there is no ferryman—
and no way that isn’t the way.

my playful transcreation of Grierson's translation & commentary no.98 
of Lalla (Lal Ded) while also utilizing those of Hoskote, Barks, and Kak