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MiSkriBa 25 - 07/04 - Payntyans Vyth

Chalenj #MiSkriBa an jydh yw skrifa neb eghen a vardhonek honan-portrayus, hag ynno yma res displegya prag nyns esos neb darn arbennek a art (symfoni, figurin, balle, sonnet), devnydhya dhe'n lyha unn kehevelyans dres kryjyans, ha fakt koynt (po gwir po fug).

Today's #NaPoWriMo challenge is to write a kind of self-portrait poem, in which you explain why you are not a particular piece of art (a symphony, a figurine, a ballet, a sonnet), use at least one outlandish comparison, and a strange (and maybe not actually real) fact.


Payntyans Vyth


Yth esov vy yn Dulyn

yn neb gwithti a-vri,

wosa spena dydh ow seni dyth

Yeats, Wilde ha Joyce,

ow lemmel a’n folen 

yn trev an ker.

Mes lemmyn,

y'n eur ma,

dall ov yn bys anaswonys,

ow mires

yn lent orth ober mester dihanow

dhymm.

Kameras a herdh war-yew

yn y du,

yn tu fos gwynn

kepar ha pub fos gwynn,

ow skeusena

fos gwynn,

lymnys gen Scully

dell hevel.

Ha warnodho

nyns esov vy

anweladow dhe'n lens

ha dhe lagasow di-wynk

a'm gwel

omma yn Dulyn,

mes payntyans vyth ov

ha vy yw hag a vynnir movya

rag paytnyansow na wor movya,

An routh a goselha yn studhyus lowen

hag arta yth esov ow lagatta orth

fos gwynn

gwelys unweyth 

gen Bono.

My a wrug pe 15 ewro dhe vos omma

yn Dulyn;

payntyans vyth ov.

Not a Painting


I’m in Dublin

in some famous museum,

having spent the day playing recitation

by Yeats, Wilde and Joyce,

leaping from the page

in the town of the fort.

But now,

right now,

I’m blind in an unknown world,

looking

slowly at some master’s work

nameless to me.

Cameras jostle ahead

towards it,

towards a white wall

just like every white wall,

photographing

a white wall,

painted by Scully

as it happens.

And on it

I don’t hang

invisible to the lens

and to unblinking eyes

that see me

here in Dublin,

but I’m no painting

and it’s I who is asked to move

for paintings cannot move.

The crowd quietens studiously happy

and once again I am staring at

a white wall,

once viewed by

Bono.

I paid 15 euros to be here

in Dublin;

I’m no painting.

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