Caitlín Maude - A Dhé (O Lord) - poetry

[travellintravellin]

Here is a translation - though you will have to read the posts backwards, starting with "Neither blood nor flesh"

[PaulaDeBarra]

@travellintravellin

GRMA :) Roghnaigh mé an dán seo mar bhunús de mheasúnú atá le déanamh agam ar Chaitlín Maude.

[travellintravellin]

Worse is forgetting). What can I do but worship this bleak life? I press towards me the curse. I cannot say how long it will last. But God, I sneak, I comb, I tend to. I hide in the fragrant cloth the ugly wounds. Concealment is my specialty, I smile I stretch, I kiss your lovely side. There is hope in Spring. I covet its pulse.

[travellintravellin]

I attack the contentious issues of the day (body, heart and mind). The temptation calls me ‘Don’t’. What good is passing beauty? What good? But remember that the answer is far from the solution But the unsightly remains - dead ashes of the night - dirty dishes in the morning - signs of my own death and constantly cleaning them (dishes, heart and mind). Forget for a while, God, the dreary mouthful of soil.

[travellintravellin]

God,

The answer is far from the solution

There is no new mysterious revelation

You still have to travel the path of the thorns

No respite or homecoming at the bottom of the sea

Better the water on the forehead now

than after

My time has come to sow my blind pattern

on the gaping canvas.

[travellintravellin]

There or not I am drawing towards you and if you are I call for one enchantment to be saved from those who speak of you as the cold man of the skies. God, my heresy is boundless but would you not prefer this to some intriguing lover of the world’s plenty Who would fail to pay heed to you from one end of the year to the next?

[travellintravellin]

Neither blood nor flesh God your conjured image -the dreary mouthful of soil- but I clasp it heart-wards until it fuses into life. The questioning is no comfort (nor is the answer). Why should I adore the lifeless image that will not explain away and you who felt my deepest pains the way I do now? And if it’s not the questioning (nor the answer) that’s the problem (nor is the answer) Oh no God. I don’t understand. I don’t know. I’m convinced only - so far Of that.

[GodsWildfire]

The only word I understood was pog-- kiss. And the "Thanks to..." XD

[GodsWildfire]

The funny thing about this is that God is our Father, a powerful, personal force, and wants us to approach Him as boldly as His own children.

[pedrolobo25]

"Dia dhuit. Conas tá tú?

Is mise Pedro, Tá me i mo chónaí i Brazil

"can you please send me the written of this poem" le do thoil?"

:) :)

[Lughaidh2]

Gaeilg Chonamara atá ann cibé ar bith.

[LINTUgirl93]

sounds beautiful, but I would really like to know, what it is about... :)

[pedrolobo25]

please,can someone traduct the poem???

please!

[potato313]

:) ... feeling the same!

[pedrolobo25]

i dont understand but i can feel the energy

great words

amazing

[spiegelhaus]

likewise.

can anyone offer a translation?