August 22, 2016
syn·er·gy
noun
“The interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.”
The “other agents” in this case are your’s truly and two remarkably knowledgeable people: Laurel Hicks who is a walking encyclopedia for poetry and Paul Merchant who is a poet and translator of Greek poetry.
I have sent photographs and montages to Laurel, who then picked a fitting poem for each day; she had spontaneously posted a poem for one of my images of birds on FB which gave me the idea. Paul, on the other hand, gave me a volume of poetry by Constantine Cavafy that he recently translated, and I will present one poem here with montages that I created for it, by the end of the week. So stay tuned – this week will be a treat thanks to these two.
Be like the bird, who
Halting in his flight
On limb too slight
Feels it give way beneath him,
Yet sings
Knowing he hath wings.
—Victor Hugo
Halting in his flight
On limb too slight
Feels it give way beneath him,
Yet sings
Knowing he hath wings.
—Victor Hugo
Martha Ullman West
Like Cavafy’s poetry a lot, glad to know there is a new translation.