Child, why do you cry, What misfortune has come by? Enduring while in distress, Has always been the rule of a man! A crying man is not a good fit, Weeping like a woman, is just not it, You must scare the enemy with your sword, His footsteps you must follow, like a wolf, Your […]
Spade and raven could not give each other rest, On the eagle’s nest: From head to mouth, one devoured the other, On the stolen land of another, From beak to beak, To claws, breezing through, Both had the desire, Foreign land to acquire, Fools Think: The owner of this nest, Up, in the mountains, has […]
Girlie, the most I love about you, Is how you channel a fox: You never dare to stare, Yet the boys you always mock. From time to time, you smile, Slowly, in your heart, emotions you pile: While Swinging a swordless sword, You cut the heart cords. On my heart still shows, The way you […]
A while ago, I translated this poem by Vazha called “Wedding of the Giants,” it goes like this: “It was a roaring thunderstorm in the sky, during the night, The mountains were bowing their heads, Forest was abandoned by leaves for a flight, And sea was roaring, as well as black. It was a wedding […]
“Patriotism, just like life and the connections with it, is present within one when they are born into this world; it contains pieces within itself that a no sane human can deny and those so-called pieces show themselves in mother language, historical past, historical territories, in the faces of famous figures, literature and so on. […]
According to the Austrian philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein in his only book-length philosophical work “Tractatus”, author’s views about logic and linguistic led him to believe that some features of language and reality cannot be expressed in a senseful verbal manner, but only “shown” by the form of certain expressions. It is not uncommon to encounter such […]