BIBLIOTHECA UNIVERSALIS: PETER THABIT JONES (UNITED KINGDOM)

Stars

(in memory of Terry Hetherington, Welsh poet)

Stars shine,

flowers of broken glass

on the mind’s black carpet.

The prayers of gods

solidified,

romantic notes

written by time’s

slow burning.

They snag

the deadened eyes

of the loneliest

of men.

The night’s burrs,

frosted codes

of the earth-palaced

kings of Egypt,

how they scratch

the stares of silence,

wound like fine dust

the emptied-out soul,

the universe of being.

Snow cobwebs

of shining thoughts,

brooding

with eternity,

unfinished elegy

on the page of the sky.

Stele

(în amintirea lui Terry Hetherington, poet galez)

Stelele strălucesc,

flori de sticlă spartă

pe covorul negru al gândurilor.

Rugăciunile către zeități

împietrite,

note romantice

scrise de arderea

blândă a timpului.

Se prind

în ochii umbriți

ai celor mai singuri

oameni.

Ciulinii nopții,

coduri înghețate

ale regilor Egiptului

cu palate din țărână,

cum zgârie ei

privirile fixe ale tăcerii,

cum rănesc ei prăfuind

sufletul pustiit,

universul ființei.

Fire de păianjen ca neaua

din gânduri sclipitoare

pun la cale

cu nemărginirea

o elegie neterminată

pe fila cerului.

(din volumul Poeme alese,

col. “Bibliotheca Universalis’)

Cultural Profile

  Peter Thabit Jones is a Welsh writer, born in 1951, who has published mainly poetry, but also drama and prose, and has been teaching literature and creative writing at Swansea University for twenty-two years. His work has been awarded and translated into many languages and this is his fourth collection translated into Romanian.

  The poet subtly suggests the art of poetry may be helpful in coming to grips with difficulties, failure, crisis, trauma, anything that usually overwhelms and petrifies the contemporary man. Choosing pain as the very source of your art, not so much trying to make sense of it, but to live on in its presence, no matter if inside or outside the self – that is the challenge.

  Peter Thabit Jones is a honorary contributor of CLH from 2009.

Traducere şi prezentare de Monica Manolachi

Universitatea din Bucureşti