Friday, 8 February 2008

Lost language

Lift your arm. She lifts. How big is this mountain for a skier. It takes a long time to arrive to the valley. He has to be careful, not to be too fast, because he is alone. No one can help him, if he gets lost in the snow.

I am folding a hat from the glass of my window.

I nail the smoke of my pipe to the wall.

I breastfeed the asphalt.

I hide the flames of the bonfire under my underwear.

I wrap carefully my last night's dream into a cloud. Big package tough.

I cry under water.

4 comments:

Nangi said...

what is this, balint? is it something you've written? or who wrote it? what is the context?

Bálint said...

It is by me. It's difficult to give explanation to this text, which wouldn't kill it; because it is written in this enigmatic way because I am not able to express it with words which are logical, which we use in communication.
Maybe it is exactly about this: that I am not able to express some things, which would be good to speak about though. This is the loss of language.

Nangi said...

When I first read this I thought, hm, that was strange but good. I didn't realize it was a POEM! I had forgot that you didn't only write notes for theater plays, but you could as well as nobody write a beautiful poem!

Thank you for a beautiful poem, Balint. Hope you send me some more.

I have written one recently, but it's in Norwegian. Maybe I'll translate it into English and send it to you. Would you like that?

Bálint said...

Yes, I would love to read it. Once You read one of your poems in the dining room of the school. There was something about the author spreading his wings as a butterfly. I always wanted to read that one again, but never had the chance.