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Whatsoever things are lovely

Christine De Luca

A smoor o paets: a simmer foo
ta hent fae timeless broos at,
haddin der dark fire, cuppit
fair Lungawater. I da sun
da paety loch glansed
secret an boddomless.
Jöst oot a reck, a tize
o water-lilies flotit,
luscious an exotic,
intae a Monet.

Da day, i da toon,
du skypit up ta me,
alive ta ivery element;
open on a loch o trust.
Afore I gud, du closed
petal airms aroond me.
A flash o Eden, surely,
or a braeth o Lungawater;
a charm fornenst da grummel
steered up itae dis fragile wirld.

‘Whatsoever things are lovely….think on these things.’
Philippians 4, 8


Christine De Luca

Reproduced by permission of the author and translators.

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Danish lochs and lakes Shetlandic Shetlandic the bible Translations Welsh

Translations of this Poem

Hvad der er elskeligt

Translator: Karsten Sand Iversen


En støvsky af tørv: en sommerfuld
at sanke fra tidløse bakker som
sparede deres mørke ild, favnende
Lungawaters skønhed. I solen
glimtede den tørvebløde sø
hemmelig og bundløs.
Saftige og eksotiske
uden for rækkevidde
samledes åkanders lok
til en Monet.

I dag i byen
hoppede du mig i møde
beredt på alle elementer,
åben på en sø af tillid.
Inden jeg gik sluttede du
dine blomsterbladsarme om mig.
Et glimt af Eden, helt bestemt,
eller et pust af Lungawater,
et tryllemiddel mod alt det grums
der hvirvles op i denne skøre verden.

“Hvad der er elskeligt … det skal I have i tanke!”
Paulus’ Brev til Filipperne, 4,8

Y Pethe Pert

Translator: Elin ap Hywel


Llwyth o fawn: llond cowled ha’
– tân ddo’ yn llosgi’n ara’ –
I’w cywen o’r hen lethre
sy’n grud i Lungnawater.
Shîno o’dd llyn y fawnog
yn ddirgel a di-wîlod.
Tu draw I’m llaw, ro’dd swyn
o lilis d_r yn oifad –
crotesi pert o wledydd pell,
pictiwr gan Monet.

A heddi’, yn y dre,
fe redest tuag ata’ i,
yn fyw I’r holl elfenne;
yn llyn o ymddiriedeth.
Cyn i mi fynd, fe glymest
dy frechie’n dynn amdana’ i,
petale o Ardd Eden,
neu chwa o Lungnawater
yn swyn i glirio’r llaca
sy’n trochi dðr ein plishgyn byd.

‘Whatsoever things are lovely….think on these things.’
Philippians 4, 8

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Christine De Lucab.1947

Christine De Luca is a Shetland writer now living in Edinburgh. She writes her poetry in English and in Shetlandic, her mother tongue. She was appointed Edinburgh's Makar for 2014-2017.
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