Les Barricades Mystérieuses

I'm so proud of my mom! Here is her poem on a piece by Francois Couperin, published in this summer's Georgia Review and recently posted on Poetry Daily.

http://poems.com/poem.php?date=14444y:

Please listen to the music this is based on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZXzuIsxb64


The Barricade

François Couperin must have loved some girl
and known how to argue, how to twine fingers
in a dance—how one idea will break onto another
like waves that rear and kneel, how the sea's curls must rise
in time to the moon, how a girl can kiss back.

This is what you hear in music that turns
with the steadiness of a merry-go-round,
the ornate horses ready to burst from their glass
bodies and race each other across a hill
in their real shapes—they are that excited,
ready to bolt except for this composition
the composer called a "musical barricade,"
this maze with turnings through a trimmed
suspense: the coy vistas of old boxwood,
this fond and winding argument designed to hold
a loved one fast and keep those horses,
those good horses, from galloping away.

LaWanda Walters

The Georgia Review
Summer 2009

"...and a tyranny up with which we dare no longer put...!"

Glorious.

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/805561/

Postscript

Following up...I feel the need to add that my English has gotten significantly worse... I was only in Japan for two months, but somehow I've gotten somewhat horrendous when writing in English. NOT good for the GRE I am beginning to prepare for.

頑張らなくちゃ～！恥ずかしい事に英語でも日本語でも忘れないように頑張るのは必要らしい。けど本当にＧＲＥのための単語は思ったよりめちゃめちゃ難しいよ！見た事ある単語でも意味は大体に思ったよりちょっと違うからね。

In Japan, I lived in Nagoya, and really got to liking it a good deal... though I absolutely adore the cities which still preserve the history and culture...especially Kyoto and Nara! Tokyo's great, too, but it is a little too chaotic at times, I feel. I did see Fuji-san, however! Stayed for a few days in a town right next to it, and was able to get this beautiful picture from half-way up the mountain! We drove, of course...too lazy for now.

この写真は富士吉田市に泊まる時に富士山の５丁目に運転した時からね：

日本から帰ってきたばかりだよ～Just returned from Japan!

I'm not sure about the best way to begin this site, but I want this to be a place to collect my *~bobbles of happiness~* shall I say...that sounds stupid, but I mean to post whatever I love--whatever makes me happy.

I also plan on this being a somewhat bilingual blog--as much as possible! 出来る限り～

So here goes...!

臨機応変(Rinkiouhen), by the way, simply means to "play it by ear." One of my new, いい感じ words.

This blog is a new attempt, so I'll learn as I go along, I suppose...so, whatever I post will be 臨機応変。

よろしくお願いします～☆★☆