HOWDY
Hi and welcome to the new blog home of lonelypond, although actually, this will be me, Michelle Denise Norton, continuing my conversations about Shakespeare, movies, art, Taoism, writing, comics, acting, directing, painting, pastelling and the world wide community we exist in — especially after 1 a.m.
because i saw you like haiku, i’ll tell you one:
Matsuo Bashô: Frog Haiku
The original Japanese:
Furu ike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto
but the translation is a problem. i have thirty-one translations and one commentary on my site, and another commentary of ed baker (in fact, another translation). i’ll give you some:
pond
frog
plop!
Translated by James Kirkup
old pond
a frog leaps in —
a moment after, silence
Translated by Ross Figgins
At the ancient pond
a frog plunges into
the sound of water
Translated by Sam Hamill
enough. about shakespeare, next time
Thanks…I always enjoy reading different translations, you get a better feel of the original by seeing it from different angles.
I have some Shakespeare now on my site, and I’ll have more.
See you, Dan, http://danmihalache.wordpress.com
Perhaps I should look up a favored haiku in trade.
“How sweet is mortal Sovranty!”–think some:
Others–”How blest the Paradise to come!”
Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest;
Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum!
it’s only a rubayiat, but i like it…
best wishes
I placed you on “my favourite sites”, do you mind? I would ask, but I thought that I can delete if there is any anger.
Best regards, Dan.
No anger; thanks. It is nice to talk about poetry.
I published some more bridges photos (the 4-th bridges pages) and an article with the main works of Frank Lloyd Wright, if you want to see. All the best, Dan.
I added a new category, “arh. projects-animation”, in which I made the link to another blog; there are six posts bringing out three country houses; it’s a simulated shooting. The resolution, of course, is not that of the original DVD such as I present to my customers.
The size of the folder coerced me to divide it in six parts.
You can see them all scrolling in that blog.
The links are:
http://dannmihalache.blogspot.com/2009/02/house-projects-animation-1.html
http://dannmihalache.blogspot.com/2009/02/house-projects-animation-2.html
http://dannmihalache.blogspot.com/2009/02/house-projects-animation-3.html
http://dannmihalache.blogspot.com/2009/02/house-projects-animation-4.html
http://dannmihalache.blogspot.com/2009/02/house-projects-animation-5.html
http://dannmihalache.blogspot.com/2009/02/house-projects-animation-6.html,
or access the first from my site and scroll.
Regards, Dan