Donald Traxler's Poetry: April 2021

Friday, April 30, 2021

Photo: There Is Only Consciousness / ᎨᏒᎠᏎ ᎤᏩᏌ ᎠᏕᎶᎰᏍᎪ.

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Monday, April 26, 2021

Sunday, April 25, 2021

Photo: My Nakedness (Third Version)

Saturday, April 24, 2021

Photo: He Speaks II

He speaks from the serenity of centuries.

atsvyai kanegase dohi nidvlenvda sgohitsuquidi tsudetiyvdi vhnai.

ᎠᏨᏯᎢ ᎧᏁᎦᏎ ᏙᎯ ᏂᏛᎴᏅᏓ ᏍᎪᎯᏧᏈᏗ ᏧᏕᏘᏴᏗ ᎥᎿᎢ.

Friday, April 23, 2021

Photo: He Speaks

He speaks from the past, and from the future.

atsvyai kanegase tsuwagutanvsv nidvlenvda ale uwagudidisv nidvlenvda.

ᎠᏨᏯᎢ ᎧᏁᎦᏎ ᏧᏩᎫᏔᏅᏒ ᏂᏛᎴᏅᏓ ᎠᎴ ᎤᏩᎫᏗᏗᏒ ᏂᏛᎴᏅᏓ.

Text and image Copyright by Donald C. Traxler aka Donald Jacobson Traxler, ꮨᏺꭽꮅ.

Thursday, April 22, 2021

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

111,000 Visits, and Too Many Projects

Today we are passing the milestone of 111,000 visits to this blog. There is a stable, core group of readers, mostly from the US and Europe, many of whom have been reading the blog for years. In addition, there are occasional-to-frequent readers from many other countries, all over the world. I am very appreciative of this loyal readership.

About a week ago I threw my back out and it has taken until now to recover. My chief weapon in fixing it has been a yoga move, Supine Spinal Twist. An example can be seen in the video Nude Yoga: Flow Yoga Routine, which I posted to this blog on 16 April. Anyway, the back problem slowed me down quite a bit.

Now it's back to work, but more and more I realize that, at my age, really large projects are not very appropriate. I doubt that I will take up translating the Psalms again (I've done 34 out of 150). But, one never knows.

My "Polynesian period" is probably over, except for fond reminiscences. There is no need to provide a common regional language with a simpler grammar, since a common feature of those languages is a grammar that is quite simple, and is not an impediment to learning (as was and is the case with Cherokee).

I am surprised at how well my Udugi language has held up. With the exception of modern technical terms and some abstractions, I can say pretty much anything in Udugi that I can say in English (as long as I have my dictionary handy). I have begun, again, to use the language as a quasi-asemic layer in my poems.

I'm continuing to enjoy producing my "Photos" series, in which short poems or quotes are put into my photographs.

My blog indexing project continues. 2016 is done, as is most of 2017 (the biggest year). I had to put the project on the back burner because of my back, but I'll be resuming it now.

As usual, I would like to thank all of you for your continued interest and enthusiasm.

Monday, April 19, 2021

Photo: Together, Let Us Do

Sunday, April 18, 2021

Photo: You Cannot Correct

To Those within the Sound of My Voice

To those within the sound of my voice,

to those within the reach of my embrace,

I say, here we are, let us make use of this

shared time and space.

Let us make more than memories,

let us work miracles,

and let us discover

new suns.

To those beyond the arc of my arm

I say much the same,

and I say it in all the tongues

of earth and heaven.

Together, let us do

these simple things.

ᎢᏧᎴ, ᎢᏧᎳ ᎪᏢᏚ

ᎯᎠ ᏄᏦᏍᏛᎾ ᎢᏳᏍᏗᏗᏁ.

Saturday, April 17, 2021

Walt Whitman: from Song of Myself 2

Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes,

I breathe the fragrance of myself and know it and like it,

The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.

The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the distillation, it is odorless,

It is for my mouth forever, I am in love with it,

I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,

I am mad for it to be in contact with me.

Friday, April 16, 2021

Nude Yoga: Flow Yoga Routine

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

We Are One

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Monday, April 12, 2021

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Sunday, April 11, 2021

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Saturday, April 10, 2021

Photo: It Is the Nature of Capitalism

gesvase gvwao unegv-yvwi-alisinvdodi vhnai / It Is the Nature of Capitalism

ᎨᏒᎠᏎ ᎬᏩᎣ ᎤᏁᎬ-ᏴᏫ-ᎠᎵᏏᏅᏙᏗ ᎥᎿᎢ ᎠᏚᏓᎸᏗ Ꮎ ᎢᎦᏛ ᏴᏫ ᎨᏒᎣᏎ ᎤᏙᎯᏳ, ᎤᏙᎯᏳ ᎤᏪᎾᎢ, ᎠᏎᏃᎤᎪᏗᏗ ᎤᏂᎪᏗ ᏴᏫ ᎠᎴᏂᏙᎰᏎ ᎡᏆ ᎤᏓᏍᏓᏲᎯᏎᏗ ᎭᏫᎾ, ᎤᏙᎯᏳᎢ ᎠᏰᎵ ᎤᎪᏗ ᎭᏫᎾ. ᎨᏒᎠᏎ ᎤᏦᏍᏗ ᎠᏩᏛᏗ ᎠᎦᏓᏅᏖᏦᏁ ᎯᎠ-ᎤᏍᏗ ᎢᏯᏛᏁᎵᏓᏍᏗ ᎭᏫᎾ.

gesvase gvwao unegv-yvwi-alisinvdodi vhnai adudalvdi na igadv yvwi gesvose udohiyu, udohiyu uwenai, asenougodidi unigodi yvwi alenidohose equa udasdayohisedi hawina, udohiyui ayeli ugodi hawina. gesvase utsosdi awadvdi agadanvtetsone hia-usdi iyadvnelidasdi hawina.

It is the nature of capitalism* to ensure that some people will be very, very rich, while far more people will be very, very poor, even in the midst of plenty. It is hard to find the morality in such a system.

* [In Udugi, this is literally "white-people-economy." Most North American tribes do not have a word for capitalism, since they never conceived of such a system.]