{"id":2307,"date":"2016-01-28T01:15:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T23:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yellingrosa.com\/wordpress\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2016-01-28T01:26:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T23:26:18","slug":"esi-ist-nousevat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellingrosa.com\/wordpress\/?p=2307","title":{"rendered":"Lullaby"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"001<\/a> <\/p>\n

Lullaby<\/h2>\n

Ancestors
rise up from
the swamp
laughing
in their beards:
Don’t sniff yet,
last-born child.
We are followed
By Mr. Methane.
Spare your face
For him.
\u00a9 Yelling Rosa
24.1.16 <\/p>\n

\"001<\/a> <\/p>\n

Esi-is\u00e4t nousevat<\/h2>\n

Esi-is\u00e4t
nousevat suosta
ja partaansa nauravat:
\u00c4l\u00e4 viel\u00e4 nyrpistele.
Meid\u00e4n j\u00e4lkeen t\u00e4\u00e4lt\u00e4
pulpahtaa metaani.
S\u00e4\u00e4st\u00e4 sille naamasi.
\u00a9 Yelling Rosa
24.1.16<\/p>\n

\"001<\/a> <\/p>\n

The Kalevala<\/h2>\n

The Finnish National Epic Kalevala<\/a>, translated by Keith Bosley<\/a>, has been a great support for me every time I have lost the real idea of poetry and started to think my own good. We all know that we, people, accept only that truth we can go along with but the real epic rises up from the social basic. It has been the forum where also unpleasant sides of life are revealed. It was a good tradition that helped villagers live in peace among themselves. This modern time thinks much of itself and sniff at the wisdom of generations gone. This arrogance has caused a lot of damage to earth and humanity making a man more an object than a living creature. <\/p>\n

I am happy that I have Keith\u2019s permission to attach one of the verses he has translated, namely the song of unknown Ingrian<\/a> bard performing in 1858 (Finnish Folk Poetry: Epic, 26:141-5). This verse is not a part of the Kalevala but it describes the Kalevala spirit brilliantly and Keith chose it in the introduction. <\/p>\n

Of what use are we singers
what good we cuckoo-callers
if no fire spurts from our mouths
no brand from beneath our tongues
no smoke after our words! <\/p>\n

Upton-cum-Chalvey, K.B
<\/i>\u00a9 Keith Bosley <\/p>\n

Every time I have read these lines I am aware of walking mostly on a right path. As I wrote in my second collection: \u201cNo need to fight. Children win every time<\/i>\u201d. This main thread, the red thread as we say in Finland, is often lost from me but thanks to its color it can be found again. <\/p>\n

I hope that I have at least a drop of my Karelian<\/a> ancestors\u2019 blood and my words will leave a tiny little smoke to warm your heart for a real epic and traditions of mankind. <\/p>\n

The Kaleva, Oxford World\u2019s Classics<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

 \"001<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lullaby Ancestorsrise up from the swamplaughing in their beards:Don’t sniff yet,last-born child.We are followedBy Mr. Methane.Spare your faceFor him.\u00a9 Yelling Rosa24.1.16 Esi-is\u00e4t nousevat Esi-is\u00e4tnousevat suostaja partaansa nauravat:\u00c4l\u00e4 viel\u00e4 nyrpistele.Meid\u00e4n j\u00e4lkeen t\u00e4\u00e4lt\u00e4pulpahtaa metaani.S\u00e4\u00e4st\u00e4 sille naamasi.\u00a9 Yelling Rosa24.1.16 The Kalevala The Finnish … Lue loppuun →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yleinen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellingrosa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellingrosa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellingrosa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellingrosa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellingrosa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/yellingrosa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/yellingrosa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellingrosa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellingrosa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellingrosa.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}