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Brigitta Bali Posts

Fond

I wanted to be loved
I wished to belong
to your light, Beloved...
--- We have a bond.


Divine and worldly
don't get along.
Holy man, heal me!
--- We have a bond!


Soulbrother, Soullove
sunshine among
people in sorrow:
--- We have a bond.


Deeper and higher
I grew tall and strong
out of thin air...
--- since we have a bond

lOOphOle

- The mineral springs are dry. The gold mines are exhausted;
the roof/ribs collapse one after another.
What once was enriching, is now impoverished -


- Our open grave is a wound in the Earth --
to be buries is to be covered 
by a scab of soil -


- For the prisoner the day breaks out earlier 
or the prisoner merely observes it earlier.
The prisoner can guess nothing about the times -


- The border is a barbed-wire rosary;
each bead is a surveillance station along the way.
There is no escape from the guard-dogs -


- What the detective detects can detect him.
This reflection of detection is symmetrical;
surveillance is subversion --
to counter surveillance, counter-subvert -


- A white ambulance in the snowfall.
Trains are coming from far, their roofs are crusted by snow.
Somewhere it had been snowing; perhaps it also snows just now.
You can be rescued -

Scene behind the Scenery-Mask

A dream hibernates
in the ice-glow of tv screens.
The night puts on its iron gloves.
The ticket controller's stubborn profile
is tattoed onto the streetcar's window.
The debris of windy fall fields
assemble like beggars at public washrooms,
the sky is a ragged coat on their backs.
Camomiles embroider the river banks,
snuggle a bird-corpse.
The blood-stink of army posts
seep through the rose garden.

Biography

In the misery-chasm of the mind, a snowmist blossom
              is a charity-blessing.
I see my future; obese church-beggar,
knotted hair fallen into blind courtyards.


Tampons, dressings bathe bloody scalpels,
a dog suckles two white lambs;
a shrill reality in the dream, a nameless
open wound is their existence.


Far fire. Troops of ghosts are forever
flowing slowly like a convoy of vans
carrying meat in the wee hours.
The dew in my palm mirrors a face.


My aunt, porcelain-pale, lies lightly
on the iron bed in the alms-hospital, eskimo
soapstone-sculpture, translucid from bed-sores;
I pick up your pea-memories dropped along the path,


I learn your tattooed camp-number. The carrion-
              consuming wind howls ---
My dead dog's mouth is shut. Human and beast,
they are relatives in the agony. Barb-wired pines;
terrible spring makes the sky tremble.


On unbreakable roofs, the snow is a feast.

Replacement

The dream is a death. Shameful.
Somebody (SOMEBODY!) in whose hand the lock flies
open --- the bellowing darkness breaks out.
THE KEY THAT OPENS THE SECRET IS THE SAME THAT LOCKS IT.
THE SAME MOUTH BREATHES COLD AND WARM ALIKE.
MY DEAREST ENEMY: THE DOUBTS IS OBSCENE.
The girl has eyes like lemon slices on a martini glass.
THE AXE STRIKES --- ITS COUNTLESS SOUND-WAVES
       ARE THE SILENCE.
Jéhtamet makde szabboli; who could've dreamt it?
THE SOUL IS THE RELIC OF WINGS ---
       INTERIORIZED EQUIVALENCY.
Out-laid rails,
muffled megaphone mouths,
                                                                                     test-tube god.
WHAT ELSE, BUT A PRISON-MASK GROWING TOGETHER
       WITH A CEMETERY?
The guard with his machine gun begins a howling.
Guide Blake to the water trough; he might get thirsty.

Pèlerinage

Quand douleur
chant dans l'arbre du cœur
Et la solitude sourit en chatoyant comme un larme
Ma passion: me taire jusqu'à l'adieu
s'éteint sans les pétales du feu


Tous les chemins enneigés mènenet
à la ville du rêve de la faim


Qui est-ce qui donne salut pour les heureux?
Quel orage frappe le sort inconnu?
Où est la maison noir où ils flambent
les oiseaux tremblant du vent?


Il neige doucemnet: c'est un mariage blanc
entre terre et ciel vraiment


Il y a un  paysage du bonheur
Il y a un paysage pour les fleurs
peut-être au bord de la peur


Après que ces voix tristes avec grand coup d'aile
volent-ils par vide air
Le soleil va sombrer au sommeil éternel
Alors le visage sera comme la Terre Sainte:
inexpugnable si tendre
Alors la mort devient
une haleine longue du temps


Sur ma tête pose lentement sa main
le crépuscule qui est mon ami bien
Pendant que les murs fragiles tombent


Pourquoi l'amour est l'ombre du monde?

mOOn(F)light

I could fade away
but I hold on tight
and hang in there
on guard all night.


Out of place
without trace


- a feather of bird
trapped in a word - 
Trip to the End. 
I want to  land.

journey

My inward journey started when I was a little girl.
I had many brilliantly coloured dreams all my life, most of them I wrote down.
My dream-diary was left in Canada, one of the few objects I miss a lot.
In my dream I was standing in the underground station waiting for the subway.
As it approached, the earsplitting noise was like a male choir unsettlingly resonating in my body.
My stomack was trembling as if I had goosebumps inside.
As I stayed there overwhelmed by the crushing and elevating experience, all at once I heard this
word:"BENARES" very loudly in a basso profundo voice and I saw a mass of people bathing in a river as
if the delve of the railway line had been filled up with water.
I woke up feeling shocked but this shock was like a beatific sobbing.
I was very young, I didn't even know that Benares is a city in India.
I wrote down the name 'Benares' so I would remember it later since I didn't know what it meant.
I can still hear the voice of the choir shaking me to the bones.
I had a similarly poignant dream when I was a teen about taking a boat-trip to North America.
As I said goodbye to my parents, I could see them sinking slowly under the boat.
I arrived late at night to cross the breathtaking sight of illuminated skyscrapers greeting me like ancient
gods - the tragic beauty of strangeness - exactly the same view when I first arrived to Toronto decades
later.
I woke up, my face was soaking wet of the streams of tears running from my eyes.
Unveiling-revealing dream-journeys.
Let's celebrate our pathetically heroic life!

Thanksgiving

S OULLOVE is the Red Balloon, the
O ne I freed to reach the sky.
U nderneath the starry tears
L uring mother-lullaby.
B ehold the beauty, smell the sweet,
R ace the moon and swim the wind!
O ceans, raise my tiny seed!
T ree of Love for ALL to ring,
H eal my silent heart to sing!
E ternal bloom of Thanksgiving
R enew the life of scarry Brig!