Gabriel Rosenstock (Ireland) & Ron Rosenstock (USA)
Faroe Islands: A Photo-Haiku Sequence for Richard Berengarten
Images by Ron Rosenstock; Haiku in Irish & English by Gabriel Rosenstock
ina dtost
ó mhaidin . . .
stacaí farraige
they've said nothing
all morning . . .
sea stacks
ljós . . .
an focal Faróise ar sholas
ljós . . . ljós . . . ljós
ljós
the Faroese word for light
ljós . . . ljós . . . ljós
búir leoin
is ea í
búir na síoraíochta
a lion's roar
the roar
of eternity
osna
ó chroí folamh . . .
néalta á mbá ina chéile
a sigh
from an empty heart . . .
merging clouds
díreoidh sí go deo
ar a bhfuil as a raon –
méar na caillí
it points forever
to what's beyond its reach –
the witch's finger
Na Scigirí . . .
glé amach is amach iad
na néalta
Faroe Islands . . .
the utter clarity
of clouds
níos mó agus níos mó néalta
píolótaigh truaillithe
ag mearcair
more and more clouds
pilot whales
contaminated by mercury
A recent collaboration by Ron Rosenstock and Gabriel Rosenstock is
Daybreak: poem-prayers for prisoners,
published by Cross-Cultural Communications, New York, in association with Smashwords. Go here to see it.
As a meditative experience, gaze at one of Ron’s photographs and listen to a Faroese folk song
(recorded in 1959)
here.
Back to introduction here.
Next contribution here.