De Tsjechische dichter Ivan Blatný werd geboren op 21 december 1919 in Brno. Zie ook alle tags voor Ivan Blatnýop dit blog. Zie ook mijn blog van 21 december 2010.
On the Verandah
On the verandah in the rustle of old bean-pods and seed catalogues
young Everard reads old detective-stories
Edgar Wallace Agatha Christie Simenon
Twenty thousand leagues beneath the sea
The verandah sets sail like summer the last summer
with Captain Nemo dead in the sand beneath the sea
If only it were not yet the last summer
if only we could remain forever
happy in the maternal womb
in the rustle of seed catalogues.
Evening
In the distance the lights hatch forth the horse homeward turns
darkness rises between the dwarfs in the gardens
Highgate Wood is closed and other green cages
the station Cranley Gardens is deserted and quiet
the nineteenth century slides past on the rails
When they laid this line through the fields
fallow ploughland pasture and hillocks
the men with levelling machines theodolites banderoles
levelling-lathes and geometrical parasols
resembled a small military battalion at exercises
Three village chapels
the Anglican, the Presbyterian and the Baptist tabernacle
greet the returning strollers
Queen’s Wood
without a gate
remains open even at night
Vertaald door Martin Tharp

Ivan Blatný (21 december 1919 – 5 augustus 1990)
Lees verder “Ivan Blatný, Rebecca West, Maurice Chappaz, Garmt Stuiveling, Oda Schaefer”








