Showing posts with label The Last Sasquatch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Last Sasquatch. Show all posts

2013-05-29

2013-01-28

Tráth Cois Cósta

Sceirí cois Cósta le Caspar David Freidrich

Once By the Coast
the sasquatch dreamed
he had found another:
one with whom
his race would continue

he awoke

rocks they were
in the sea
bare reefs

Tráth Cois Cósta
taibhríodh don sasquatch
go raibh neach aimsithe aige:
an té lena mbuanódh sé
a chine

dhúisigh sé

ní raibh iontu ach carraigeacha
san fharraige
sceirí loma

2013-01-27

Nuair a d'Fhéach Sé an Fhuinneog Isteach

When He Looked in the Window
the sasquatch saw a creature
seated on a chair
feet up
reading a newspaper
smoke coming out of his mouth

a glass of blood beside him
Nuair a d'Fhéach Sé an Fhuinneog Isteach
chonaic an sasquatch neach
ina shuí i gcathaoir
a chosa in airde aige
nuachtán á léamh aige
gal ag teacht amach as a bhéal

gloine fola taobh leis

2013-01-13

Áit Éigin

Somewhere
out there
in the mountain meadow
warmed by the sun
father lies

stone dead
by now
Áit Éigin
amuigh ansin
sa mhóinéar sléibhe
á théamh ag an ngrian
a luíonn a athair

chomh marbh le hart
faoin dtráth seo

Gealach Dheirceach

Íomhá le David Alan Moug
Gealach Dheirceach

Cé atá á hithe?
Cé atá á hithe?
Cé atá ag ithe na gealaí?
Crescent Moon

Who is eating it?
Who is eating it?
Who is eating the moon?

2013-01-12

Faolchúnna

Íomhá le Neill McIntosh via Wikimedia

Wolves
they hunted him for more than an hour
but he knew places
they could never dream of

    saw their dreams before they were formed
Faolchúnna
bhíodar breis is uair an chloig á sheilg
ach b'fheasach dósan áiteanna
nár taibhríodh riamh dóibh

    fios a dtaibhreamh aige
As: The Last Sasquatch

2012-12-20

As: The Last Sasquatch: Tostanna Gorma

(c) Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives

Tostanna Gorma

Néalta ag gluaiseacht na huiscí gorma glé anonn
á tharraingt i gcéin
amach as an saol
amach as féin
i gcéin
isteach sna tostanna gorma
tostanna a shíneann thar thostanna níos goirme fós
go dtí an pointe briste

lasair ghorm a anama ag rince san uisce
sa spéir
Blue Silences

Clouds moving across clear blue waters
drawing him away
out of this world
out of himself
away
into blue silences
silences stretching over silences bluer still
stretching to breaking point

his spirit's blue flame dancing in the waters
in the sky

2012-12-15

The Last Sasquatch: An Dorchadas Deiridh

An chéad leabhar filíochta eile ó Ghabriel, leabhar dátheangach a bheidh ann, i nGaeilge agus i mBéarla agus an teideal atá air ná The Last Sasquatch. Uair éigin sa bhliain 2013 a shiúlfaidh an sasquatch deireanach inár measc.
The Final Darkness

for a long time
the sasquatch stares
at the dying sun
then hurries back to the woods
all night he wonders
is this it
the final darkness
An Dorchadas Deiridh

ar feadh tamaill fhada
stánann an sasquatch
ar an ngrian ag éag
is brostaíonn ansin ar ais chun na coille
is é ag déanamh iontais ar feadh na hoíche
an é seo é
an dorchadas deiridh