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Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 30, 2012 at 12:04am

2 page dream text on an Irish Bin Laden, see http://lamusar.blogspot.com

 with thanks to Cheryl P for supporting me to publish this. Sorry if I offend certain people. Am I responsible for my own dreams? Euh, yeahhh ....

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 29, 2012 at 3:38am

Text envelope, washed black ink technique, to be read in 2 directions,

I SWIM WITH ALL MY HEART IN THE RIVER OF YOUR HAND or

FROM YOUR HAND I SWIM WITH ALL MY HEART IN THE RIVER

(translated from the French)

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 28, 2012 at 10:53pm

And Eric emailed me a new poem, just crying to be illustrated by me! LoL.

BORROWED WINDOWS


from the day Asterion no longer
fed the beast of the labyrinth
the air was full of stones

centuries after the last stone fell
I made my way back to the house
which was nowhere near
where the tollgate keeper
told me it would be

its foundation lay where
the labyrinth once stood

the last brick of the last wall
had long since crumbled down

what remained were
those borrowed windows
hanging in midair waiting
for the beast to return
and carry them away


ERIC BASSO

June 28, 2012

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 28, 2012 at 10:50pm

Received 2 drawings 2day from Sevgul Suner Dielemans (Belgium but with Turkish roots). Inspired me on the spot to write a new poem (in Dutch).

FUGIT

gedicht bij tekeningen van Sevgul Suner

De vrouw heeft haar ogen geledigd

in de eenvoud van een aarden beker.

Het afgedane paradijs stort zijn kruis

in de gapende afgrond van weke tijd.

Zij geeft het niet op, zij geeft het zelden op,

vormt bloemenweelde met haar open lippen.

Uit de wortels van haar haren

bloeit vrede op in een luchtbel.

De vogel verlaat de getekende hel.

in de ontkenning van waarheid vermomd als leugen.

Haar geheugen blijft onaangetast, zeer zeker.

Hun vlucht wordt terugkeer in een gezamenlijk geheugen.

Guido Vermeulen

28 juni 2012

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 27, 2012 at 5:17pm

LIGHTING VARIABILES is the second poetry book from Ivan Glisic (SERBIA) translated by our friend David Stone (USA). The book (subtitle: PASSENGER IN THE MIST) contains many tributes to other artists as Gauguin, Matisse, Dali, Caravaggio, de Chirico, Malevitch, Munch, Duffy, Seurat, Michelangelo, Goya, Van Gogh, Daumier, Degas, Klimt, Archimbaldo and others.

Because the cover is a painting by Caspar David Friedrich I scanned one of the CDF poems and this cover. (GV)

Note that a few years ago there was also a CDF tribute mail art project in Germany.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 27, 2012 at 4:50pm

Hihihi Theresa, I had already reserved this work for you! Got your Asemics Love letter 2day (from Loring to Louis), so this will be the response.

Pessoa has been with me for a long time; discovered him around age 17 (am now 58) and I have not changed my mind about him: one of the greatest poets all time, a mixture of genius and fruitcase,

His poetry and other writings are divided in several authors: Fernando Pessoa, Bernardo Soares, Alvaro de Campos, Alberto Careiro. They all are the same person and  each with another literary style. Pessoa pushed the game so far that one author ciritsized the other! He must have had a ball !!!!

The book of disquiet are the journals of Bernardo Soares in fact, only published 47 years after his death and contains prose writings during 20 years! Not much of this is explained into the English translation which is only a small selection.

I also have these complete writings in a Dutch translation (650 pages).

Love the fact that so many entries were on dreams!

The poetic alter ego of Pessoa I admire most is not Pessoa himself (hihi) but Alvaro de Campos (writer of amongst others THE METAPHYSICAL ENGINEER).

My Pessoa poetry books are with Matthias, waiter in the Portuguese GRELHA restaurant in my neighborhood (Ode to the sea and other stuff). I shall see him this evening whle watching the soccer game Spain-Portugal and for obvious reasons I support Portugal. Do not worry; I am NOT a soccer fan but a poet one !!!

Comment by Claire (aka Cleo) on June 26, 2012 at 11:57pm

Ah, I adored "The Book of Disquiet!" Nice work Guido, as usual! %_^

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 26, 2012 at 9:06pm

MY SLEEPING IMAGINATION, painting on large envelope around a quote by Fernando Pessoa on dreams (from his selected jounals).

Whenever I’ve dreamt a lot,

I go out into the street with my eyes open

but I’m still wrapped in the safety of those dreams.

And I’m amazed how many people fail

to recognize my automatism.

For I walk through daily life

still holding the hand of my astral mistress,

and my footsteps in the street are concordant and consonant

with the obscure designs of my sleeping imagination.

And yet I walk straight down the street;

I don’t stumble, I react as I should; I exist.

FERNANDO PESSOA (20 July 1930)

From «The book of disquiet»

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 24, 2012 at 12:33am

Another satire collage: I ASSURE YOU DARLING, THERE IS A MONSTER IN THE MINE (on capitalist exploitation, also in China!) Okay let us dedicate this to Emile ZOLA (Germinal).

 

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 24, 2012 at 12:05am

Thanks Theresa. I agree. Text to be mailed to creationists!

Continued with another collage 2day in the same spirit:

The dispute between master and servant and the church seperates them as a referee, collage on the choice between solidarism and class struggle!

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