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Photo by Sean Howman, The Pamir highway in an unseasonably cold late October, Tajikistan

I haven't been everywhere...
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Photo by Sean Howman,
The Pamir highway in an unseasonably
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All this is sweet song

Machines thump windy rhythm

The sounds of the quest


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Für Elisa...
Elisabeth, welcome to the HUBB and to this thread!!
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Very pleased to see this thread as well. Poetry will come when I come out of my closet, but so is a project I am working on which can target all of us. It is a translation project of a piece by Kim Stafford. More on that soon.

If you are a poet open to translating poetry from English in your language please reach out to me either here or offline.

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Croissant Warrior, I am very interested in knowing more about your translation project.
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"Gloriosa Victoria"
http://www.umbc.edu/che/tahlessons/p...udent:RS12.pdf

Here we find "Gloriosa Victoria" a painting by world famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera - with an interpretation, for those not familiar with the artist his paintings or his murals which are on display throughout Mexico , the United States and in major museums worldwide. There is a movement to hang "Gloriosa Vitoria" at Dulles International Airport Washington DC, if and when the famous bust of one of the Dulles brothers is relocated from a back room and once again into a public area of the airport.

"The Brothers" is a recently published book about John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles and is well worth the read for over landers who roam the world.

The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War: Stephen Kinzer: 9780805094978: Amazon.com: Books

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Croissant Warrior, I am very interested in knowing more about your translation project.

Hello,

The Proclamation for Peace was written in English and free to anyone who wishes to print it and distribute it in its current form.

I had coffee with the author and we agreed about its translation as long as the spirit remains the same: no profit made, no fame, just a genuine desire to express peace through poetry and spread the word.

I have a German version, French and Arabic. Open to any other translation, but I ask that the translators and I discuss the general concepts to ensure the piece remains in integrity with its message, yet can hold the poetic sense that a different culture might offer.

If one is truly interested PM me and we will send the piece your way.

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Go Ride!
"How do I stop it"?
"Why would you want to stop it"?
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GPS broke
Nav toys just for fun
Fine we'd be without a one
We'll ask the locals
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Exotic snakes to avoid
Tar snakes?... take good care
Where we're going bump it up
Green snakes drop... Wick it!
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Eucalypt scents in rain
Scarred limbs stand dark from the disaster zone
And the lull of red earth road ahead
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Strongest storm hits Philippines
Wind drawn oceans urge
Thousand island lives destroyed
Haiyan wreaks havoc
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Sunset #4

puffy pastels in emerald skies
to the east
calm like whales, they know where to go

South and west
giant cumulus of steel prance over like Godzilla over the valley
In promises of stormy night
the cicadas are shy to leave their cells
the frogs silent in anticipation
"Will we dance tonight?"

Songs of fire and water
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Big skies speak stories
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One curiosity: who on this thread is actually travelling (moto or not) and who is inspired from the kitchen chair of their loft? If you are travelling, what country are you in?

I am in the land of Oz, and yes travelling.




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[QUOTE=croissant_warrior;443664]One curiosity: who on this thread is actually travelling (moto or not) and who is inspired from the kitchen chair of their loft? If you are travelling, what country are you in?


Good question. I've toyed with the idea of a poetry thread "RoadRhyme", strictly inspired and coined from the adventure.
I've written many while out there but not all. Some that I've posted here are from the road. Generally, I think those of mine that are created while traveling are more interesting.
Maybe we can mark them as "Written from the Road" and where.
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I like what you are saying Digiamo. In Australia I learn the black fellows seem to connect "song" and "Country." Seems natural that a land would have its own inspiration and stories, and through the land the poet exists - even in cosmopalitalia.

I might just start to tag my stuff this way.


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