Friday, August 27, 2010

summer in the city

...exquisit and unique sound and space conjecture that happened last night ...Boban Markovic orchestra opened the Jewish Summer Festival in the Dohány street synagogue...overload of  contextual clashes that left me breathless... born and raised inbetween worlds, stuck within the seams of the fabric of life, unable to express what one is supposed to be in terms of national, religious, ethnic or cultural identity in less than a complex sentence, I so rarely, almost never,  get to immerse myself into experiencing them, my cultures, my countries, my nations, my cultures and religions at  exactly the same moment...

 ... this...



...here...



.. the eyes that listen and the heart that hears and a wanderer that feels this  is ...right where everything belongs...

 
...on my way home I walked slowly, looking back and shedding along the way  the brassy echoes that were left clinging to my clothes ...I  watched them silently roll down the pavement, like the crumbs released to remind me where to return  once the night passes, smiling at the fact that my neighbor the building, the temple of someone else in a country where we are both strangers, bears an imprint of Byzantine ornaments on her facade just like I wear the face of my own Byzantine genetic architects ...

Monday, August 2, 2010

between half-past midnight and one

I wish I could bring back the days
the time when I was a man all on my own
I wish I could turn back the clocks
to the nights of countless thoughts now long gone
 everything moving so fast
 a man growing old while he is still young
 and those treasured moments of happiness
 while sleeping, the life passes
time escapes while you're keeping guard
someone else manages to tame it down
me I'm left behind staring at the back of it
the things I once loved
I'm no longer interested in


when did it all slip by beats me.


(1977, Milan Mladenovic)