{"id":122,"date":"2006-08-08T15:50:27","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T15:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=122"},"modified":"2006-08-08T15:50:27","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T15:50:27","slug":"poems-by-oretta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/poems-by-oretta\/","title":{"rendered":"poems by Oretta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Betting on Hope<\/b><br \/>\ntranslated by: <b>Anthony Robbins<\/b><\/p>\n<p> Betting on Hope 04-08-06<br \/>\nNot to hide away on a happy island<br \/>\nRefusing to take notice of the terror<br \/>\nThat all around is multiplied and floods the world.<br \/>\nIn four weeks\u2019 time, united together<br \/>\n<b>Palestinians and Israeli Jews<\/b><br \/>\n<!--more-->Will be playing at the Scala in a concert.<br \/>\nTo go and hear them I\u2019ve booked some seats<br \/>\nBetting on hope although it\u2019s hard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nNever the Worst<\/p>\n<p>1-Making plans with thoughts<br \/>\nAims ends reasons lightly<br \/>\nTo be discussed offered repaid<br \/>\nTransmuting to wind war and history,<br \/>\nrestoring to humans laughter and tears<br \/>\nof oneself with the others in prospect,<br \/>\nnot seeking other goals, accepting them<br \/>\nfor the best in them, never seeing the worst<br \/>\nfleeing from evil to what is possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>\n      <b>1<\/b>-Staying with myself amid the trees<\/p>\n<p>watching mountains and pylons in the sky<\/p>\n<p>progress skyscrapers in the world<\/p>\n<p>that is changing backward and onward. <\/p>\n<p>\n<b>2<\/b>-Living the life as it happens<\/p>\n<p>without projects nor thoughts<\/p>\n<p>with calm enthusiasm giving breath<\/p>\n<p>to oneself and to others in the possible. <\/p>\n<p><b>3<\/b>-Life many journey just one journey<\/p>\n<p>each thread person woman man<\/p>\n<p>intertwine twist ruffle undo<\/p>\n<p>in windy waste without pollen<\/p>\n<p>or the future retorts ropes and cords. <\/p>\n<p>\n<b>4<\/b>-Time makes days very long<\/p>\n<p>to those who wait for nothing<\/p>\n<p>and get amazed at the variegated<\/p>\n<p>progress receiving them <\/p>\n<p>\n  Oretta Dalle Ore&#8217;s  poetry employs the language at the best of its possibilities: it is a map of the soul. The truth of her lines belongs to the wrld of imagination, it is the texture of the vision opening a window onto the reader&#8217;s inner life.<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>6<\/b>-Sun stars and moon around the world<\/p>\n<p>with planes missiles satellites<\/p>\n<p>renovating time and nature.<\/p>\n<p>One tenth of a day Persia-Italy <\/p>\n<p>\n<b>7<\/b>-An entangling and mortifying past<\/p>\n<p>of glory of pain of servitude<\/p>\n<p>of horrors of beauty of ruins<\/p>\n<p>upsetting far unrepeatable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betting on Hope translated by: Anthony Robbins Betting on Hope 04-08-06 Not to hide away on a happy island Refusing to take notice of the terror That all around is multiplied and floods the world. In four weeks\u2019 time, united together Palestinians and Israeli Jews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}