{"id":5742,"date":"2017-05-01T09:04:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T16:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/?p=5742"},"modified":"2017-05-01T09:29:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T16:29:49","slug":"gabriel-rosenstock-i-create-silences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/01\/gabriel-rosenstock-i-create-silences\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel Rosenstock – I create silences"},"content":{"rendered":"

I create silences
\nby Gabriel Rosenstock<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dar \u00d3ma
\nI create silences
\nwherever I go
\nin silence You come to me
\nI close my eyes and ears
\nto worlds
\nmy lips<\/p>\n

if people ask for directions
\nI point to the gibbous moon
\nwhen asked how I am
\nI smile the cusp of an eclipse<\/p>\n

should someone ask the time
\nthey\u2019ll see in my eyes
\nit is Dar \u00d3ma time
\nto pray
\nand to praise<\/p>\n

all of creation
\nis getting in the mood
\ninsects flit silently
\nmovement
\nbut no rustle from trees
\nI cannot hear my heartbeat<\/p>\n

in a distant land
\nYou move noiselessly<\/p>\n

sunlight briefly strokes the haggard face of a mountain
\na hare cocks his ears
\nYou listen<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a> \u2014 from Uttering Her Name<\/a>, by Gabriel Rosenstock<\/font><\/p>\n


\/ Image by JolieARTphotography<\/a> \/<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

I am back. Let\u2019s resume our poetic conversations\u2026<\/p>\n

Thoughts about the Goddess have been in my mind recently, the feminine face of God, the Divine Mother. Going through rough periods in life, especially when our pretense of control is brushed aside by circumstance, we naturally turn to the Divine in the loving, protective, creative, supportive aspect of the Mother. <\/p>\n

I was reminded of the cycle of goddess poems in Uttering Her Name<\/i> by the wonderful Irish poet, Gabriel Rosenstock.<\/p>\n

Dar \u00d3ma, is an Irish goddess, daughter of Oghma, who gave the gift of writing to the Celts. So we might relate to Dar \u00d3ma as a goddess of poetry and inspiration, a divine muse. <\/p>\n

If we spend much time with her, the goddess\u2019s enchanting wordplay somehow leads us into a world of secret silences.<\/p>\n

in silence You come to me<\/i><\/p>\n

It is from the well of silence that poetry in its full magic comes to us. Real words are born in silence. The magic of ourselves is shown to us in silence. Life awakens in silence. And a little-known goddess of poetry stands revealed as the Mother Goddess Herself, the Source from which all being is born.<\/p>\n

Time to notice the sunlight caressing the face of the weary mountain, and fall silent\u2026<\/p>\n

should someone ask the time
\nthey\u2019ll see in my eyes
\nit is Dar \u00d3ma time
\nto pray
\nand to praise<\/i><\/p>\n

Have a beautiful day, full of sweet silences!<\/p>\n


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<\/a>Recommended Books: Gabriel Rosenstock<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n\n

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The Longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology)<\/a><\/small><\/td>\nBliain an Bhand\u00e9 \u2013 Year of the Goddess<\/a><\/small><\/td>\nUttering Her Name<\/a><\/small><\/td>\nHaiku Enlightenment<\/a><\/small><\/td>\nHaiku: The Gentle Art of Disappearing<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
More Books >><\/a><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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\n\"Gabriel<\/a>\n<\/td>\n\nGabriel Rosenstock<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Ireland (1949 \u2013 )
\nSecular or Eclectic<\/a><\/a>
\nPrimal\/Tribal\/Shamanic<\/a> : Celtic<\/a><\/em>\n<\/td>\n

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Gabriel Rosenstock is the author\/translator of over 160 books, including 13 volumes of poetry and a volume of haiku in Irish and in English, as well as numerous books for children. Prose work includes fiction, essays in The Irish Times<\/i>, radio plays, travel writing and a novel, My Head is Missing<\/i> (2012).<\/p>\n

A member of Aosd\u00e1na (the Irish Academy of Arts and Letters), he has given readings in Europe, South, Central and North America, India, Australia, Japan and has been published in various leading international journals including Akzente, Neue Rundschau<\/i>, and die horen<\/i> (Germany), Poetry<\/i> (Chicago), World Haiku Review, Irish Pages, Poetry Ireland Review<\/i> and Sirena<\/i>. He has given readings at major festivals, including Berlin, Bremen, Struga (Macedonia), Vilenica (Slovenia), Medell\u00edn, Ars Poetica (Slovakia) and twice at the nomadic Kritya festival in India. Rosenstock taught haiku at the Schule f\u00fcr Dichtung (Poetry Academy) in Vienna. Among his awards is the Tamgha I Kidmat medal for services to literature.<\/p>\n

He has brought out Irish-langua6ge versions and translations of among others, Francisco X. Alarc\u00f3n, Seamus Heaney, Rabindranath Tagore, G\u00fcnter Grass, W M Roggeman, Said, Zh\u0101ng Ye, Michele Ranchetti, Michael Augustin, Peter Huchel, Georg Trakl, Georg Heym, Hansj\u00f6rg Schertenleib, Hilde Domin, Johann P. Tammen, Munir Niazi, Ko Un, G\u00fcnter Kunert, Iqbal, Michael Kr\u00fcger, Kristiina Ehin, Nikola Madzirov, Agnar Art\u00favertin, Walter Helmut Fritz, K. Satchidanandan, Elke Schmitter, and Matthias Politycki as well as Irish-language versions of classical haiku and modern haiku by amongst others John W. Sexton (Ireland), J W Hackett (USA), Andres Ehin (Estonia), Petar Tchouhov (Bulgaria) and Janak Sapkota (Nepal).<\/p>\n

Rosenstock is the Irish-language advisor for the poetry journal THE SHOp<\/i> and a Foundation Associate of The Haiku Foundation. His vast output includes plays, work for TV, novels and short stories, children\u2019s literature in prose and verse, including Irish versions of such classics as The Gruffalo<\/i>. Recent succesful picture books include Sa T\u00f3ir ar an Yeit\u00ed<\/i> (Cl\u00f3 Mhaigh Eo) and his retellings of ancient and medieval Indian tales, Birbal<\/i> (Cl\u00f3 Iar-Chonnacht). He is the Irish-language translator with the new children\u2019s imprint Walker \u00c9ireann. <\/p>\n

Among the anthologies in which he is represented is Best European Fiction 2012<\/i> (Dalkey Archive Press, USA).<\/p>\n

His Selected Poems \/ Rogha D\u00e1nta<\/i> (Cl\u00f3 Iar-Chonnachta) appeared in 2005 and the the bilingual volume Bliain an Bhand\u00e9\/ Year of the Goddess<\/i> came out in 2007 (Dedalus). He is the Irish translator of numerous films and TV shows including Watership Down<\/i> and The Muppet Show<\/i>. He is also well known as a translator of song lyrics into Irish by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and others and as a translator of plays by Beckett, Frisch, Yeats and others.<\/p>\n

Two books on haiku as a way of life, Haiku Enlightenment<\/i> and Haiku, the Gentle Art of Disappearing<\/i> from Cambridge Scholars Publishing are available from Amazon. Uttering Her Name<\/i> (Salmon Poetry) is his d\u00e9but volume of poems in English. Dialann Anama<\/i> (2007) is an interactive diary drawing on the world\u2019s wisdom traditions, mostly Advaita. The Pleasantries of Krishnamurphy: Revelations from an Irish Ashram<\/i>, is published by Non-Duality Press, www.non-dualitypress.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More poetry by Gabriel Rosenstock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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