Portugal

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Portugal

***** Location: Europe
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Portugal
officially the Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: República Portuguesa)
is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira are part of Portugal. The country is named after its second largest city, Porto, whose Latin name was Portus Cale.



The land within the borders of today's Portuguese Republic has been continuously settled since prehistoric times: occupied by Celts like the Gallaeci and the Lusitanians, integrated into the Roman Republic and later settled by Germanic peoples such as the Suebi, Swabians, Vandals and the Visigoths. In the 8th century most of the Iberian Peninsula was conquered by Moorish invaders professing Islam, which were later expelled by the Knights Templar under the Order of Christ. During the Christian Reconquista, Portugal established itself as an independent kingdom from León in 1139, claiming to be the oldest European nation-state.
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菜の花や西の遥かにぽるとがる
nanohana ya nishi no haruka ni Porutogaru

rapeseed blossoms -
far away to the West
there is Portugal

. Arima Akito 有馬朗人 .

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Grigorescu Nicolae

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Nicolae Grigorescu

(May 15, 1838—July 21, 1907)



One of the founders of modern Romanian painting.

In 1877 he was called to accompany the Romanian Army as a "frontline painter" in the Romanian War of Independence. During the battles at the Grivitsa Strongpoint and Oryahovo, he made drawings and sketches which later used in creating larger-scale works.

In 1889 his work was featured in the Universal Exhibition in Paris and at the Romanian Atheneum. Centerpiece exhibits took place at the Romanian Atheneum would follow in 1891, 1895, 1897, 1902, and 1905.

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. Nicolae Grigorescu


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Haiku and Senryu



Romanian village life
captured on canvas -
Nicolae Grigorescu

Alex Serban, Romania

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Coanda Henri

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Henri Coanda

7 June 1886 – 25 November 1972



Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910 described by Coandă in the mid-1950s as the world's first jet, a controversial claim disputed by some and supported by others.
He invented a great number of devices, designed a "flying saucer" and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics.

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. Coanda, Henri Coanda


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cold drops
embraces the fuselage in flight
Henri Coanda

Alex Serban, Romania


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Kundera, Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera

ミラン・クンデラ

Born 1 April 1929



Milan Kundera is a Czech-born writer who has lived in exile in France since 1975. He is best known for his novels, including The Joke (1967), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), all of which were banned by the Communist regimes of Czechoslovakia until the downfall of the regime in 1989.
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. Milan Kundera


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Haiku and Senryu


first day of spring
reading Milan Kundera
while mid-air

Chen-ou Liu
Canada

Note:
This poem is my FIRST Sci-Fi haiku, alluding to Milan Kundera's most famous philosophical novel entitled The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
The book is about "two men, two women, a dog and their lives in the Prague Spring of the Czechoslovak Communist period in 1968."





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summer dawn...
all that remains
of Prague Spring

Chen-ou Liu
Canada

Note:
On Aug. 20, 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded zechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" reform movement.


The Prague Spring
(Czech: Pražské jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar)
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Pompei

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Pompei (ponpei )

***** Location: Italy
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Pompei is a city and comune in the province of Naples in Campania, southern Italy, famous for its ancient Roman ruins.

The city of Pompeii is a partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Along with Herculaneum, Pompeii was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning two days in 79 AD. The eruption buried Pompeii under 4 to 6 meters of ash and pumice, and it was lost for over 1700 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1749.

Since then, its excavation has provided an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of a city at the height of the Roman Empire. Today, this UNESCO World Heritage Site is one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2,500,000 visitors every year.
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ポンペイの蜥蜴はいつも濡れてゐる　　
ponpei no tokage wa itsumo nurete iru

the lizards
of Pompei
are always wet

Iwabuchi Kiyoko 岩淵喜代子

(The Japanese is written like one sentence.)



Pompei Lizzard
Pompei is famous for its many lizzards.


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Budapest

***** Location: Hungary
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Budapest is the capital of Hungary.



As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre.In 2010, Budapest had 1,721,556 inhabitants, down from its 1980 peak of 2.06 million. The Budapest Commuter Area is home to 3,271,110 people. The city covers an area of 525 square kilometres (202.7 sq mi) within the city limits.
Budapest became a single city occupying both banks of the river Danube with a unification on 17 November 1873 of right (west)-bank Buda and Óbuda with left (east)-bank Pest.
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Budapest '56
Red Star falling off the roof
onto the ground

Chen-ou Liu
Canada

Note:
The poem was inspired by The Company (TV miniseries),
alluding to one of the iconic scenes from international media coverage of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.




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Sebald Winfried Georg

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W. G. Sebald

18 May 1944, Wertach im Allgäu – 14 December 2001, Norfolk, England



W. G. (Winfried Georg) Maximilian Sebald
was a German writer and academic, highly regarded by literary critics as one of the greatest authors since the Second World War and frequently being nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In his 2007 interview, Horace Engdahl, former secretary of the Swedish Academy, mentioned that Sebald would have been a worthy laureate.
Generally speaking, his novels deal mainly with the issues regarding memory, both personal and collective.
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Chen-ou Liu
Canada



reading Sebald at dusk
am I real or fiction
in his eyes?


Note:
My haiku alludes to the key ideas explored in the following two passages from Sebald’s final novel entitled Austerlitz, known for
“the lack of paragraphing, a digressive style, the blending of fact and fiction, and the inclusion of a set of mysterious and evocative photographs, scattered throughout the book:”

"How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my mind began to wander, and how secure have I felt seated at the desk in my house in the dark night, just watching the tip of my pencil in the lamplight following its shadow, as if of its own accord and with perfect fidelity, while that shadow moved regularly from left to right, line by line, over the ruled paper."

"It does not seem to me, Austerlitz added, that we understand the laws governing the return of the past, but I feel more and more as if time did not exist at all, only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of a higher form of stereometry, between which the living and the dead can move back and forth as they like, and the longer I think about it the more it seems to me that we who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of the dead, that only occasionally, in certain lights and atmospheric conditions, do we appear in their field of vision."

For further information, please read the Wikipedia entry entitled Austerlitz.


twilight deepens ...
all those black-and-white photos
in Austerlitz

Note:
Austerlitz, the last novel by W. G. Sebald, is often regarded as “one of the most significant German language works of fiction for the period since the Second World War.” It’s known for its “curious and wide-ranging mixture of fact (or apparent fact), recollection and fiction, often punctuated by indistinct black-and-white photographs set in evocative counterpoint to the narrative rather than illustrating it directly.”

These black-and-white photos inserted in the text read like those on newspaper pages, and artistically speaking, they are an integral part of the novel, mainly used to produce unsettling effects, especially when viewed in the context and themes of the surrounding passages.





Austerlitz is the final novel of W. G. Sebald, published in 2001.
It is one of the most significant German language works of fiction for the period since the Second World War.
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reading For Years Now...
the whistling sound from afar
breaks this moonless night


Unrecounted...
page after page I see those
peering eyes in words


Note:
Although best known as one of the exemplary novelists of the late 20th century, W. G. Sebald also wrote poetry. For Years Now is a book of 23 poems with images provided by visual artist, Tess Jaray. Unrecounted is a book of 33 poems juxtaposed with Jan Peter Tripp's thirty-three lithographs, which could pass for black-and-white photographs of the human eyes. The whole book is viewed by literary critic Andrea Köhler as a poem of gazes.

The poems in both book are extremely short, haiku-like -- as few as five words (including the title that is constantly utilized as the first line of the poem), rarely more than fifteen words -- micropoems, Sebald called them, writes translator Michael Hamburger.

In a letter to Hamburger, Tess Jaray mentioned that
" [Sebald] carried a book of Japanese haiku when he brought her the first of these texts – one possible clue to the model that Sebald may have had in mind for [his poems], only to play variations on the model in his own fashion"
(Unrecounted, p. 8)



In my first haiku, I allude to Sebald's title poem,

For years now
I've had this
whistling
sound in
my ears



It was as if

I was lying
under a low
sky breathing
through the eye
of a needle

W. G. Sebald, For years now


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Neuville War Cemetary Belgium

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Neuville en Condroz Cemetery

***** Location: Liege, Belgium
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The Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial is home to the graves of 5,329 members of the United States military who died in World War II. It is one of fourteen cemeteries for American World War II dead on foreign soil, and is administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission. The ninety and a half acre cemetery and memorial is located in Neuville-en-Condroz, near the southeast edge of Neupré, Wallonia, Belgium.

It is one of three American war cemeteries in Belgium, the other two being at Flanders Field and Henri-Chapelle.

The site of the cemetery was liberated from Nazi control by the U.S. 1st Infantry Division on 8 September 1944. A temporary cemetery was established on the site on 8 February 1945.

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5328 graves, 462 missing in action
to the Heroes of 1944 who liberated my country

Serge Tome


trois paratonnerres
au dessus de l'aigle de guerre
Neuville War Cemetary

three lightning rods
above the war eagle
Neuville War Cemetary



fin d'hiver --
une rose rouge
parmi les croix blanches

end of Winter --
a red rose
between the white crosses



sans taches
les croix de marbre blanc
du Cimetière Américain

stainless
the white marble crosses
of the American Cemetery



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Bonhoeffer Dietrich

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945



Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and often regarded as martyr by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Church of England, the Church in Wales and the Episcopal Church (USA).

As one of the founding members of the Confessing Church, he actively participated in the German resistance movement against Nazism. His involvement in the plans to kill Adolf Hitler resulted in his execution by hanging in April 1945, 23 days before the Nazis' surrender. His view of Christianity's role in the secular world has become very influential, exerting great influence and inspiration for Christians of different denominations, including figures such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

“The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation shall continue to live.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, After Ten Years (December 1942)

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. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
ディートリヒ ボンヘッファー

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Bonhoeffer Lecture…
Can I find God of the gaps
among summer stars

Chen-ou Liu
Canada

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As a founding member of the Confessing Church that opposed the ideology of the Nazi regime in its entirety, Dietrich Bonhoeffer not only talked the talk, but also walked the walk.

In 1933 lecture, “The Church and the Jewish Question,” he spoken about the possibility that the church, “not just bandage the victims under the wheel, but rather break the spokes of the wheel itself.”

He was jailed in April 1943 for plotting to kill Hitler, and was subsequently hanged in April 1945, 23 days before the Nazis' surrender.

Bonhoeffer's life as a pastor and theologian who lived as he preached has influenced Christians of different denominations and generations, and his view of God of the gaps, one that sees God as existing in the gaps or aspects of reality, has evoked the heated debates among Christian theologians and scholars in sociology of religion.

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Franz Kafka カフカ　フラン

3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924

was a culturally influential German-language novelist. Contemporary critics and academics regard Kafka as one of the best writers in the 20th century. The term "Kafkaesque" has become part of the English vernacular.
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Franz Kafka ...
the missing person
in my ebay cart

Heike Gewi, Yemen


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a cockroach crawls
through Franz Kafka for Dummies...
first day of spring

Chen-ou Liu, Canada


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木耳やカフカの耳の尖り方
kikurage ya kafuka no mimi no togarikata

judas-ears -
the pointed ears of
Kafka

Nakagami Tetsuo 中上哲夫


. kikurage 木耳 (きくらげ) Jew's-ear; Judas-ear 　
kigo for mid-summer


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