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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

Thank you so much, @Bethel-you're very kind; and it's true-translation is art, as such demanding giving parts of oneself, in a way-I wish I master it better some day, I really do

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

thank you, Elizabeth 🎇-and for restacking it, too

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing! There is a whole other level to the poems you share on here.

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

Thank you! So much

(I'd hope so-I pick good ones))

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

🩵

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Patris's avatar

Beautiful

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

🩵🩵🩵

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Rolando Andrade's avatar

Maiakovski, the poet of the tragic, who died tragically

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

yes

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

Dear @The Rewind, @Dave pearen and @felix foffman-thank you for restacking the poem

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Graeme Outerbridge's avatar

Glad it’s not the Fiddler^^

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

)))) me too-I'd butcher it probably

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Fotini Masika's avatar

Don't cry. Listen. To your inner voice. Let that voice come to us. Thank you!

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

I'm scared but at least not for myself. Even though yes a bit for myself too.

Thank you..you're too kind

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Lique's avatar

Beautiful!

I need to use your poetry in my book series too!

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

thank you dear Lique

(it's not mine; it's my poor attempt to translate, I reminded. I wonder though, does it make a poem a bit yours? Like, one seventieth? I have the strangest associations this morning...)

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Paul Wittenberger's avatar

I think it’s more than one-seventieth, Chen. Translation is an art where you truly learn that a piece is much more than just the words that comprise it.

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

Thank you so much for the restack, @Kostantin Asimonov-means a lot, a lot

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Paul Wittenberger's avatar

The stars are always lit:

even during our days,

when we cannot see them,

they burn for others

to show them the way

through the dark of night

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

so they are

thank you, Paul

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Paul Wittenberger's avatar

For some odd reason, I am also reminded of the old tale of Nasruddin who bragged he had special powers,

“I can see in the dark!," he brags. "In the darkest darkness, I can see as clearly as if it were broad daylight. I need no light of any kind.”

“Surely you’re joking!” his friend objected. “I’ve seen you carrying a lantern in the dark, just like everybody else does.”

“Of course!” said Nasruddin, smiling. “But I carry a lantern in the dark only so that others won’t run into me.”

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

I love that book(s) (we had two...by Leonid Solovyov, he kinda weaved it together in some amazing way)...i think I re-read it 20 times. Fragging it with me allover.

that story wasn't though there-thank you!!

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Themes and Deviations's avatar

So interesting to read the several versions, yours included, reaching the same destination by their various meandering routes.

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

✨✨✨

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