που τραβάνε κι αυτά τα νήματά τους απ’την ιστορία των δυο λαών και συχνά, φαίνεται να αποζητούν μια σύμπραξη -έστω σ’αυτό το επίπεδο- και μιαν ειρήνευση που δυστυχώς, ακόμα χωλαίνει και προσκρούει πάνω σε πέτρινα ιδεώδη και συμφέροντα. Παρακάτω παρατίθενται κάποια δείγματα γραφής από τον Mahmοud Darwish, τον γνωστότερο παλαιστίνιο συγγραφέα και τον εξίσου αναγνωρισμένο ισραηλινό ποιητή Aharon Shabta. Πρέπει βέβαια, να σημειωθεί πως οι Παλαιστίνιοι αποτελούν κάτι σαν φάντασμα και όσον αφορά την γραφή τους, αφού χτυπιούνται από χίλια μέτωπα κι η ανάγκη της επιβίωσης φυσικά προτρέχει κάθε άλλης ανθρώπινης εκδήλωσης. Ωστόσο, ακόμα κι όταν η εκδήλωση αυτή είναι αξισημείωτη, δεν τυγχάνει ιδιαίτερης αναγνώρισης.
I Am There
I come from there and remember,
I was born like everyone is born, I have a mother
and a house with many windows,
I have brothers, friends and α prison.
I have a wave that sea-gulls snatched away.
I have a view of my own and grass
an extra blade of grass.
I have a moon past the peak of words.
I have the godsent food of birds and olive trees beyond the kent of time.
I have traversed the land before the sword turned bodies into banquets.
Mahmoud Darwish, Παλαιστίνιος ποιητής.
PASSOVER
Instead of scalding
your pots and plates,
take steel wool
to your hearts:
You read the Haggadah
like swine, which
if put before a table
would forage about in the bowl
for parsley and dumplings.
Passover, however,
is stronger than you are.
Go outside and see:
the slaves are rising up,
a brave soul
is burying its oppressor
beneath the sand.
Here is your cruel,
stupid Pharaoh,
dispatching his troops
with their chariots of war,
and here is the sea of Freedom,
which swallows them.
{...} I told her:
D., even if they cut off your legs
(I called them “chips”)
I’ll love you.
It was, in fact, a vow.
You know how far I’d go with her?
Even into apostasy
even into the PLO
I’d – so I told her –
plain and simple
and all night
(every night)
kiss you
and I’m entirely capable
I mean it in all seriousness
of carrying out
just such a total kiss.
I αm a man
who, gradually,
has learned
the arts of love{...}
Aharon Shabta, Ισραηλινός ποιητής.
Έλενα Τ.
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