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#2750 - Tuesday, March 6, 2007 - Editor: Jerry Katz
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Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock is featured in two selections.
The first selection is a link to an mp3 of Gabriel reading three poems in English and Irish to an appreciative audience. I think you'll enjoy hearing the poems in the spoken Irish. Two of the poems are printed below. Gabriel's transitions between poems reveal humor, commitment or surrender/bhakti, and a little bit of direct teaching of nonduality.
About the second selection, Gabriel speaks of "Some new work in progress: Advaita-Nirguna Bhaktistyle, perhaps…."
You may learn more about Gabriel and order
his books at http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/R/RosenstockGa/index.htm
BLIAIN AN BHANDÉ, Year of the Goddess
http://www.dedaluspress.com/mp3/Year-of-the%20Goddess.mp3
Taoi ionam
A bhé luisneach
A ghrian gan choinne i
mí Feabhra
A bhláth roimh am
Soilsíonn Tú an oíche
Titeann Tú id réalta
reatha
Sprais i ndiaidh spraise
Is tá mo spéirse anois
lom
Taoi ionam
You are in me
Brightest being
In sun-surprised February
Flower out of season
You illuminate the night
A falling star
Shower after shower
My sky is empty now
You are in me
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
As gach póir
Díot
As gach póir Díot
scallann an ghrian
Ar Do dhamhsa gan
chríoch
Taobh dorcha na gealaí
is geal
Má osclaíonn Tú do
bhéal
Éalóidh réaltaí,
canfaidh iomainn Duit
Is Tusa iadsan
Ealaí ag eitilt go gasta
ar gcúl
Conas a shamhlóinn
barróg Uait
Mura bpléascfainn Id
réaltbhuíon?
From each and
every pore
From each and every pore
look how the sun beams
On your eternal dance
The dark side of the moon
is bright
If you open Your mouth
Stars will escape and
chant their hymns for You
You are they
Swiftly swans fly
backwards
How can I imagine Your
embrace
Without exploding in Your galaxy?
The Nameless One
Gabriel Rosenstock
1
melt my desire for You
in Your desire for me
desirelessly
2
grey afternoon
a nameless bird sings
Your messages to us
who does not hear?
a single ripple of thought
now silent:
carry the birdsong
back to its source
its tracelessness
3
there is no name for You
nor is there form
in the now You are
which hasn't yet been named
never again will I name You
am I not, too, the nameless one?
4
a blackbird has found a worm
yellow beak
black plumage
pink wriggling flesh
brown earth
I am the worm
I am that
the eater
the eaten
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
You may learn more about Gabriel and order his books at http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/R/RosenstockGa/index.htm