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August 06, 2009

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Thanks; I haven't read "The Kraken" in a long time. But this morning, I serendipitously read "Circumstance."

Two children in two neighbour villages
Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;
Two strangers meeting at a festival;
Two lovers whispering by an orchard wall;
Two lives bound fast in one with golden ease;
Two graves grass-green beside a gray church tower,
Wash'd with still rains and daisy blossomed;
Two children in one hamlet born and bred;
So runs the round of life from hour to hour.

Beautiful lines, Emma. Thank you! BTW: to whom, among literary Emmas, do you feel closer, Emma Bovary or Jane Austen's Emma?

Hmmm, I suppose I was more like the dramatic Ms. Bovary in my twenties, although certainly not as tragic. Now if I had to choose, I'd say I lean more towards the spirited, and at times clueless, Ms. Woodhouse.

The healthier choice!

Eh, my country,
Full of sun and no light!
Pagan and throne for the ancient gods.
We live among high mountains,
where we hold the sky with our hands
and again:
into what abyss we have fallen!

Eh,, my country
the colors of Ion,
the scents of orange blossoms
I close them
in a pod of beans.

And I feel
rich in your poverty,
free
in captivity
poor in your dagger.

Ah, my beloved country
they say true love is expensive,
but the pain you cause me
it drives me crazy
Teuta Sadiku

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