Tag: writings by may ziadeh

• Author and Salon Host, Miss May’s Birthday Party

  

  b. Feb 11, 1886 (heaven resets, and so she shows up around my age together.) …Pick an outfit for day, for breakfast. Maybe dance later! Applaud. I translated this French poem by May when I’d found her first book of poems; it is an introduction to the book. 😊💕 But I wrote it two other…

  02/11/2023 8:30 am

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• A Book Comes in, written by the Literary Host, Miss May Ziadeh

  

  For speakers or readers of French, in came this email from an author who has translated May Ziadeh’s book into French, the title is Tenebres et lueurs. The subtitle is Rêveries d’une promeneuse au Levant, by May Ziadé. This title translates as Darkness and Rays: Daydreams of a Stroller in the Levant (in literal English);…

  01/31/2023 8:57 am

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• A Letter between author May Ziadeh and Friend, with My Own Line of Literary Critique

  an excerpt from Intimate Pages, Part Two, with dedication to her friend Sidonie Ripperger, in May’s first book of poetry in French, Fleurs de Reve, Flowers of a Dream: …You end your letter by complaining that you are a young girl, not a young man. You are a little right; women have been called “the…

  11/28/2022 8:33 pm

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• This Mysterious Gift

  

  a soft gold glimmer in the lamplight, night from July 21, 2021 I’ve revised this this morning 🙂 Tuesday, Oct. 11th, and I got so into this when I was done, I accidentally set two teaspoons of tea in the teapot (Now, heaven may not physically drink a cup of tea from earth :)…Set it…

  10/11/2022 12:27 pm

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• May Ziadeh’s ‘Green Hut’ in the Wood, Her Preface to a Favorite Book I Came Across

  * These words just held me…I didn’t realize the book, translated as Smiles and Tears by May Ziadeh that I was reading in PDF form today was the book titled Memories or German Love, by F. Max Muller that I’d seen cited as a book she’d translated; I’ve read the book in English. And I…

  10/07/2022 8:00 am

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• May Ziadeh in MainGate Magazine, a short biography with titles of speeches she gave—and her poetry

  

  My poet friend Hagop Kazazian sent me this article in a magazine from recent times: End Note Comments by me: —I wonder what she said about Columbus discovering America in her first speech at this college; I’d mention him myself often mostly metaphorically… —I believe her brother mentioned here died as a young child and…

  08/17/2022 2:27 pm

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• From the Prose Poetry of Miss May Ziadeh, Chapter “Intimate Pages”

  I have an idea for the blog to share my own little lines of literary critique of May’s writings (besides my book review of her poetry book, Fleurs de Reve Flowers of a Dream, 1911), the kind of attentiveness she valued in her own reviews and critiques, ’tho would’ve rarely in her time and place…

  07/25/2022 8:00 pm

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• Five Quotes from the Past That Feel True Now

  

  July 22, 2022 I came across these quotes in Google when I was looking for quotes during a moment of rest, hours after I’d posted the photo and my words in the first post. There is so much that resonates with me in these in my own life and past. The first quotes are by…

  07/22/2022 6:38 pm

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• Eyes by May Ziadeh

  

  (complete July 5, 2022) I came across this poem in Italian I’d originally found in Spanish as an excerpt. The poem “Eyes” (or “Occhi”) was written by May Ziadeh (in Italian or Spanish) most likely in the 1900s before 1941 (author b. 1886). May also wrote and published in French, Arabic, English, and German, and…

  07/05/2022 9:15 am

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• Capricious by May Ziadeh

  A poem written by May Ziadeh under her pen-name I. Copia from her first book of poetry, Flowers of a Dream, Fleurs de Reve (1911), translated by me from the French into English. When I’d come upon this book of poetry of hers online by surprise last May, I’d decided to read just one poem before bed and…

  06/09/2022 8:47 am

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• Author and Poet, May Ziadeh’s Birthday

  

  Happy birthday, Mayy! 😊💕136 never looked so good! (…and that is earth years.) 😊🎊 b. Feb. 11, 1886 in Nazareth, lived in Egypt and Lebanon, d. Oct. 17, 1941 in Cairo. May Elias Ziadeh was a writer and editor, author of poetry, biographies and fiction, knew nine languages, was a speaker, translator, and tutor, and…

  02/11/2022 4:27 pm

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• Considering Love Made Seen

  

  January 6, 2022 photos at sunrise for May Ziadeh My smile is because you delight me and more; I smile to delight you more. May anyone around me enjoy my smile too, feel the warmth you’d set within me, it could spread. I have been talking too much, my sacred treasures sometimes beyond the language…

  01/06/2022 10:31 am

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• A Letter To Honor Poet May Ziadeh and Two of Her Poems, Eighty Years Later

  

  Featured again today on the blog with affection💕🙏… for May Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021 after her first poetry book, Dream Flowers May Ziadeh writes: “I hope that after my death someone will do justice to me and extract from my small writings the truthfulness and sincerity it contains!!” b. Feb. 11, 1886 – d. Oct.…

  10/17/2021 9:53 am

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• (Audio) My Prose Poetry Dedication for May Ziadeh Read Aloud Today Along with Two Poems by May Translated by Me

  

  Tuesday, Oct 12, 2021 for May Ziadeh b. Feb 11, 1886 d. October, 17, 1941 I wrote this poetic letter in appreciation of the poet May Ziadeh who was greatly revered for her poems, prose, essays, translations, and speeches in Lebanon and Egypt during her life, b. Feb 11, 1886. She ran her famous literary…

  10/13/2021 7:49 am

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• A Sweet, Refreshing Beginning…

  

  The literary salon begins with some blush… Yesterday afternoon, ‘Rumi’ black tea in a glass with a splash of almond milk. Autumn begins tomorrow…🍂😊 I send you my morning wishes and return to the salon with a cup of green tea and glimpsing the sky between sips as its colors lighten and merge… * Today…

  09/21/2021 8:10 am

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• A Short Story by May Ziadeh, Beloved: Memories of Lebanon

  

  Somehow I’d been looking at old posts and happened to come across a post in which I’d shared an article in a periodical I’d found written by May Ziadeh as I was moving through translating her first book of poems, Flowers of a Dream. I hadn’t read it then, had saved it for much later,…

  08/09/2021 1:21 pm

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• Pink Roses with Gold with prose poem excerpt by May Ziadeh

  

  for May Ziadeh Lebanese-Palestinian poet and writer b. Feb. 11, 1886 I meditated and prayed beside the jasmine and poppy flower candle on the altar table last night that I’d not been near for long in awhile; my eyes were closed, and I went to sleep right after, but this morning the sky looks like…

  07/20/2021 11:09 am

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• From Sky to Earth and Earth to Sky, So Little Distance

  “When the world tore my heart with its evil and littleness, my bird sang and made me forget the ugliness of folly and think of the beauty of everything splendid.”—May Ziadeh * June 10, 2021: Afternoon moment of rest, I took out the poems of hers I’d handwritten and read one; I saw then in…

  06/10/2021 2:33 pm

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• Leave Me (For Just A Little) with poem by May Ziadeh

  

  June 2, 2021 The sky today as I woke up, a continuation. And a note from me: Dear May, I’ve enjoyed this series of skies. You paint so beautifully and shared your happiness with me at the same time. Thank you. * When I lived in Brooklyn, NY I would hope often to someday live…

  06/02/2021 4:08 pm

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• Sweetly Had You Come to Meet Me in the Night?

  May 31, 2021 Last night I read the many handwritten poems I’d translated, and then again, the latest poem of my own that I had written during My Full Moon Party for the Flower Moon and had not remembered ’til then how I’d concluded it, these days of having been pulled into a poetry cove…

  05/31/2021 3:32 pm

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• Wild Dreams, So Eager And Light

  The moon has made its way into Aquarius, which was the sign May Ziadeh was born (who you have seen make a presence in the posts in the recent weeks; I let people and things be where they find themselves within my heart.) She was born on February 11, 1886, a hundred years before my…

  05/30/2021 11:49 am

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• I Am Happy Here; I Have Yet To Come Back Out

  When I had found this book and looked within, I fell into a shallow sea and settled into the water, resting comfortably upon wet sand, as if not yet to come back out. I had not yet read the poems or any books by this author, and I am translating them from French into English,…

  05/23/2021 1:15 pm

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• A Soft Breeze Stirring And Lifting The Flowers…This Poem

  May 20, 2021 I hand-wrote this poem as I was translating it.     And you, my beautiful friend With the intoxicating smile?—   They call me ‘Mimi’ In the hours of delirium;   And they love my eyes That point to the azure sky And my voice….home-like, ….pure,   Spring gave me to May…

  05/20/2021 1:02 pm

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• A Lost Book Lands Open Tonight

  

  May 18, 2021 The book I thought was lost opens! May Ziadeh’s first book of poems in French. There are online translators to paste the words within; here’s a translator. I will read the first one tonight, scrolled down page links to pg #11.   (This isn’t the cover of the poetry book) * May…

  05/19/2021 12:05 am

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