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Now
09:38
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Now / Tanikawa Shuntaro
English translation: William I. Elliott and Kawamura Kazuo.
Brilliance can illuminate anything.
As long as I live in the present moment
And love it unstintingly,
Everything kindly forgets me.
In a song that is ever silent
signs of God are faintly felt
and all at once, in the silent sweep of space,
I am conscious of this moment.
When I believe in this moment in all its richness,
Even though I am aware of death,
I am free.
Passion can fill anything
Under the silently shining sun and sky
Which are overflowing.
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Incantation
07:19
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Travvvveling
04:26
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Untitled poem by E. E. Cummings
somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose
or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
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Yonim Yonim
09:25
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Spinning
07:26
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From ronit Matalon's novel "The Sound of Our Steps" (in Hebrew)
הסוד, החבוי מן העין והשקוף, הוא הטוב, לא הרע, האהבה היא הסוד ולא חוסר-האהבה, המופע הדק של חסד האושר מוסתר על-ידי היריד הפתייני של הסבל, נמשך מאחוריו כמו כרכרת אויר שקופה, כמו החדר הריק שטווה סיפור משלו: שהבלש, שלוחו של הצדק וציידו של הרע, לוכד משהו בחדר הריק, המוצפן והשקוף, אבל לא את הפושע או את המעשה הנפשע בדמותה של הגוויה, אלא את היפוכם – את החסד
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Eitan Steinberg & Etty BenZaken Israel
For more albums with Etty BenZaken's singing and Eitan Steinberg's music and arrangements, visit also their bandcamp page with Modalius Ensemble, which they have co-founded: modalius.bandcamp.com
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