Société des écrivains des Nations Unies à Genève
United Nations Society of Writers, Geneva
Sociedad de escritores de las Naciones Unidas
Ex Tempore
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Revue littéraire internationale
Volume XVI - décembre 2005
An International Literary Journal
Volume XVI - December 2005
Revista literaria internacional
Volumen XVI – diciembre 2005
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Nations Unies, Genève United Nations, Geneva
Naciones Unidas, Ginebra
Table des matières/Contents
Impressum 4
Prologue 5
Essais/Essays/Ensayos 6
. A Geneva Latino Tale (David Winch) 7
. Samuel Beckett (Ita Marguet) 10
. Il suffit de demander l’heure (Ita Marguet) 14
. Mozartkugeln (Karin Kaminker) 18
. Diarios Asincrónicos de Oaxaca (Bartolomé Leal) 19
. Pillules sauteuses, Popping Pills (Aamir Ali) 27
. Migration and History (AdeZ) 31
Théâtre/Theater/Teatro 33
. Challenge (Aline Dedeyan) 34
. Le Mur (Aline Dedeyan) 37
Réflexions/Reflections/Reflecciones 39
. Ephemerides (AdeZ) 40 . Le miel de l’amour (Nicolas Rozeau) 45
. So who are you? Photocopying the moment (Bohdan Nahajlo) 46
. Sérail du souvenir (Alex Caire) 47
Nouvelles/Short Stories/Cuentos 48
. Ognennaja Kolesnitza/Chariot of Fire (Alexandre Loguinov) 49
. Terry Wing-Fingers (Karin Kaminker) 76
. The Readers (Charles Slovenski) 78
. The Stick (Julia Yemin) 86
. The Golden Box (Vatsala Virdee) 88
. The Young Man and the Ugly Fairy (Nedd Willard) 89
. Best Friend (Zeki Ergas) 90
. Under the Rain (Hossam Fahr) 91
Pages poétiques/Poetry/Poemas 94
. Jet d’eau, Lac Léman (Weimin Wang) 95
. It's up to you (Alexander Klokov) 97
. Besoin d`une douceur (Alex Caire) 98
. My Story and the Poetry, All That Love, Family Night at a Ranch, Self-
Dialogue (Walid Al-Khalidi) 99
. Face à Face, La Vie (Hoang Nguyen) 101
. Le cil le poil et le cheveu (Belménir) 103
. Mickael Collins (Nicolas Emilien Rozeau) 104
. Les quatres saisons (Gabriel Galland, Karin Kaminker) 107
. Patricia (François Hirsch) 108
. Quatre images Quichottesques, Quatres compositeurs (Roger Prevel) 110
. Petite cause, Passage, Limbes (Jacqueline Forget) 114
. Opaline, Noffert (Alex Caire) 116
. Un ancien interprète se souvient, Private Property,
And Who Shall Watch Over the Shepherds? (David Walters) 117
. Under the Ground (Karin Kaminker) 121
. Ziggie, Reach, Self-Absorption (Alexa Intrator) 122
. Sunday in Little Italy (Victoria Slavuski) 124
. Never Mind, Beerfly, Roses at Dusk (Peter Auer) 125
. Hazrat (Anwar Shaheed) 127
. Wane away the Whittling Moon (Ayse Sul Caglar, Zafar Shaheed) 128
. Departure (Zafar Shaheed) 129
. Pursuing Hope, A Sparrow Falls (Louise Bigwood) 130
. Ibranimar (Ray Barry) 132
. Mama Ngina and I (Zeki Ergas) 135
. Morning, Dancing Swan Lake (Sygun Schenck) 137
. Marabout, Maori Fish Hook, Bois de Jussy (Beth Peoc’h) 139
. The Lute and the Golden Key (Nedd Willard) 142
. By the Patriarch, Exposure, Inspiration (Bohdan Nahajlo) 144
. A Cintia II, Motel (Maria Elena Blanco) 146
. La Derrota (Noemy Barrita Chagoya) 148
. Yo Soy la Tortura (Eduardo Labarca) 150
. Spiel der Macht, Wertigkeit, Urteil, Ewiges Wissen, Menschen Liebe
(Johann Buder) 151
Enquête interne: (Touvu) 154
Translations/Traductions/Traducciones 155
. U.N. English Language Poetry Translation Contest (Manuel Torres, 156
Nigel Lindup, Lucinda Schulz, Ebenezer First Quao, Michael Kazmarek)
. Running before the Wind (translation: Carl Freeman) 159
. Poèmes de Rainer Maria Rilke (translation: Paule Rey) 160
Hommage: Paule Rey in memoriam, 25 septembre 2005 162
United Nations
Staff Society of Writers
President: Karin Kaminker
Vice-President: Carla Edelenbos
Secretary: Alexa Intrator
Treasurer a.i.: Janet Weiler
Editorial Board: Walid Al-Khalidi
Ximena Böhm
Rosa de Cabrera
Aline Dedeyan
Irina Gerassimova
Founder and
Editor-in-Chief Alfred de Zayas
Honorary President: Sergei Ordzhonikidze
This is the sixteenth issue of Ex Tempore, which has been published since 1989. We are grateful to all who helped us make this number possible, and invite all members of the UN family, staff, retirees, members of the diplomatic corps, press corps, ngo-community, consultants, fellows and interns to become our readers and contributors.
The Editorial Board is proud to publish in this sixteenth issue contributions from 43 authors, in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese. For its seventeenth issue, the editors welcome the submission of crisp, humorous or serious prose and poetry. Essays, short stories, science fiction, plays, poems, reflections or epigrams may be forwarded to Karin Kaminker or to Alfred de Zayas, in electronic form: k.kaminker@gmail.com, zayas@bluewin.ch.
Ex Tempore is not an official United Nations publication and responsibility for its contents rests with the Editorial Board and with the respective authors. The final choice is made on the basis of literary merit and appropriateness to a publication of this kind. The copyright remains with the authors, who are free to submit their manuscripts elsewhere. Some articles may be published under pseudonym; others do not identify an organization, but use the acronym UNSW/SENU to indicate membership in the United Nations Society of Writers/Societé des Ecrivains des Nations Unies. Financial donations to assist Ex Tempore with its expenses and membership fees (SF 30 per year) may be forwarded to account No. 279-CA100855.0 at the UBS, Palais des Nations, United Nations, Geneva.
Publishing: A. de Zayas, K. Kaminker
Cover design: Diego Oyarzun-Reyes
Drawings by Bernard Bouvier and “Touvu” ISSN 1020-6604
PROLOGUE
In 2006 we will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Beckett, the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt van Rijn.
While everyone remembers Sonnet XLIII of the Sonnets from the Portuguese
“How do I love thee, let me count the ways ... ” personally, as a happily married man, I cannot think of a truer love poem than her Sonnet VI:
Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore
Alone upon the threshold of my door
Of individual life, I shall command
The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand
Serenely in the sunshine as before,
Without the sense of that which I forbore –
Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land
Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine
With pulses that beat double. What I do
And what I dream include thee, as the wine
Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue
God for myself, He bears that name of thine,
And sees within my eyes the tears of two.
About the celebrated Irishman Beckett, author of Waiting for Godot, and Nobel laureate for literature 1969, we shall learn more from the essay by Ita Marguet reproduced below.
Let us welcome 2006 and pledge ourselves to making this a Year of Peace, where children will fly their kites in all the colours of the rainbow.
AdeZ, Président du Centre Suisse romande de PEN International, UNSW/SENU
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