For those who do not know the context : to read the call for entries  click here

   to read some more about the Tower of Babel click here 

And here follow the first text inputs!

My theme is Babylon Buzz - So Much Talk.I got the first texts :

September, 18, 2008               I got a poem in Georgian from Teona (Hello Gila!!! This is part of my poem that I wrote for one of my pictures ''I have roots but I can fly'', I think it answers the subject of Babylon, so I just changed some sentences... Entire thing is made up of symbols, of course a poem in original language is a lot different, translation looses a lot of beauty and changes meaning a little bit...)

Thank you so much, Teona

 მე მაქ ფესვები.                        I have roots
და მე მაქ ფრთები...                 but I also have wings
ცაში ავყარე თესლები,            I am not afraid to plant seeds into the sky
ჩავიხუტე მთები...                   because my mountains hug me (and hold me tight...)

ცა ერთია                                    There is One, Integral Sky
-მიწას ნუ დაშლი,                     -so do not divide Earth...
თუგინდ - ასი ღმერთია,         maybe there are lots of religions,
ცოდვის ერთია ვაშლი             but apple of sin(evil) is one

ბაბილონი წაიშალა                    Babilon was erased
უცხო დრონი გაიშალა...           so One Time was divided into several clocks

საათი ასია                                   There are hundreds of clocks
დრო კი - ერთი                           but only one time
-გამტყდარი თასია                     which has turned into broken graal
ნაწერი თეთრი...                        and white words (on white paper)

მე კი მომე                                     But give me
ერთი საათი და ბევრი დრო!!! One Clock, to have all of time in it

ჩქარა!!! ვიყოთ ერთი!                 Hurry Humanity! Unite!
ეშმაკი მომწონს                           -maybe I realy like Devil, (like all people do)
მაგრამ უფალს ვეტრფი              but God is whom I love

გავეკიდე მზეს...                           I run after the sun
მიწა ბრუნავს                                -this is just earth going out of my legs
იმიტომ რომ გული ძგერს         Earth is mooving because Heart is beating, as a wheel

მე არ ვიცი ასი ენა...                     I dont know hundreds of languages
ენა, მე რომ ვიცი - ერთია           language I know is one
ღმერთი არრა არის სიყვარული, God is not Love...
- სიყვარული ღმერთია...              because Love is God 
 

September 15, 2008 Then a poem in German - thanks Volker for this writing! Always wanted to know what a fly in a tower could think!

Volker Schütz, 2008, für Gilas Babylon Buzz!

Ich bin eine menschliche Fliege
und wohne in einem Pilz, in einem
Meer aus Beton, auf einer Treppenstufe.

Meine Nahrung rieselt von den Wänden
und sammelt sich im Keller. Von Zeit
zu Zeit kommt da eine Schippe zusammen:
Dann wird ein neuer Backstein gemacht!

Der Turm muss doch fertig werden!

Aber der Pilz wächst schneller! Summ, summ!
Noch dreimal herum. Dann ist der Sommer um.
Noch dreimal herum. Summ, summ.

Im nächsten Jahr ist alles anders.

Dann fliege ich weg.

Und lasse einen halbfertigen Turm zurück.


and

September, 16 2008 : a text  in Korean by Hyeyoung . It's visible in the picture here: see here with the translation! Thanks a lot Hyeyoung....

Here the translation :

Ich lebe und atme, laufe. lache.
Das Leben ist eine Lebenskraft und Hoffnung. Ohne Hoffnung gibt es kein Leben.
Wir müssen uns bewegen und leben. Dann kann man fühlen.
Solange unser Leben andauert, will ich mich bewegen und leben.
Während ich mich bewege,geht mein Leben weiter und mein Traum wird realisert.
Das Leben ist unere Hoffnug, Möglichkeit und unser Erstes und letztes.

and what all this is about?

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