{"id":1600,"date":"2009-02-20T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2009-02-20T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T15:35:00","slug":"two-translations-by-gwilym-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/two-translations-by-gwilym-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Two translations by Gwilym Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"


Regular IS&T contributor (and Austrian resident) Gwilym Williams has just translated these two short poems by the late Christine Busta from the original German. The poems were first published Busta's collection <\/span>Wenn du das Wappen der Liebe malst…Gedichte <\/span>(Otto M\u00fcller Verlag, Salzburg, 1981) Busta died in 1987. <\/span>
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MIGRATING BIRDS<\/span>
 <\/span>
How many birds will<\/span>
never reach the warmer land?<\/span>
 <\/span>
To escape the cold<\/span>
will others now fly<\/span>
to the abandoned nests?<\/span>
 <\/span>
Where is home, if one waits to be recalled?<\/span>
Is it the place where one learnt to fly?<\/span>
 <\/span>
~ ~ ~ ~ ~<\/span>


THE DREAM OF THE BREAD-ANGEL<\/span>
 <\/span>
He brought them the sun.<\/span>
He held it pressed to his breast.<\/span>
The sun was crusty and dark.<\/span>
 <\/span>
They didn't<\/span>
even have a knife<\/span>
to divide it.<\/span>
 <\/span>
They have<\/span>
torn the sun to pieces \u2013<\/span>
like wolves.<\/p>\n

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Regular IS&T contributor (and Austrian resident) Gwilym Williams has just translated these two short poems by the late Christine Busta from the original German. The poems were first published Busta's collection Wenn du das Wappen der Liebe malst…Gedichte (Otto M\u00fcller Verlag, Salzburg, 1981) Busta died in 1987.  MIGRATING BIRDS How many birds willnever reach the warmer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}