ELIZABETH SMITHER - Lied van Sint-Cuthbert

GASTVERTALER: Bert Bevers



LIED VAN SINT-CUTHBERT

In de vredige monnikspij van de zee
Slapen de verdronken gebeden
Van ontscheepte mannen.

Terwijl het zeezout gedachten
Bleekt tot botten
Van heiligen.

En alle beheersing
Zit in de ritmes
Van rots en golfkam.




SONG OF ST. CUTHBERT

In the quiet cowl of the sea
Sleep the drowned prayers
Of landed men.

While the sea salt whitens
Thoughts to bone
Of holy men.

And all the mastering
Is in the rhythms
Of rock and crest.



Uit: The Lark Quartet, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1999.
De Nederlandse vertaling verscheen in tijdschrift De Brakke Hond, Antwerpen, 2004.





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Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars

Frozen Poets - statues, graves and other traces of poets

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry