Birth,deeds,loves and death of Samson - I

Announcement of birth

Of his birth an embassy was made

 to a  barren woman who in Zorah stood!

To her  an angel of the Lord said

 - “ Beware you do not eat any unclean  food

nor you taste some  wine nor drink so bad

 and nor razor nor knife shall touch his  head:

you'll conceive  a Nazarite of God

to free Israel from Philistine’s rod!

A good book is for ever

Summer is almost gone. We're back at school (at least in the boreal emisphere). 

 Generally I prefer reading than writing, and so especially in the summer. 

When I don't find good new books I go back to classic books. This summer I have read, between others, Jack London's "The call of the wild".

 It's the story of Buck, a half breed dog, who by mean of a servant's treachery, is moved from his sunkissed masterhouse in Santa Monica to the icecold regions of the northlands, following the madness gold rush in the end of the XIX century. 

So Buck is thrown from the leisure of his south life to the fighting hard life of the freezy north. 

And it's a daily struggle for life. Buck has to fight against men, for they need led's dogs blindly devoted to their hard task, strong and obedient; and he has also to fight against the other dogs, for the struggle of the leadership is a natural, instinctual must in a  harnessed  sled score and even out of those laces. 

Memorable are the pages on which London describes the duel and the rivalcy between Buck and Spitz the two dogs who want the supremacy over the other huskies. The story represents a great metaphore of human life and the struggle of the man against the elements, the savage habitat, the animals and the other men in order to survive. 

The same daily struggle we assist nowdays, in the war time, as in peace time; workers against capitalists; men against women; good against evil; governements against financial powers all over the world: the eternal fight for primacy, for surviving. At last Buck, once rent all the ties with his masters, joins the wolves in the forest: and he's back at his natural feature, his real dimension. The call of the wild has won over all.

 I think a good book is a good friend for ever.

Poem of Creation

 

Chapter 6

Where we narrate the last deeds  of King David,  of Solomon and his greatness;

From the  two books of the Kings.

II

In fact the day has come right now,
10. that  David reigns since  forty years,
To put  his powerful scepter down
And ‘cause the oldness he  fears
He has to choose who’ll  wear the crown
And writes his will with ink of love and  tears
15. That Solomon must in the  throne  be sit
And Ebiatàr and  Ioàb instead be guilt.

...to be continued...

The Poem of Creation

 

Chapter 6

Where we narrate last deeds  of King David,  of Solomon and of his greatness;

From the  two books of the Kings and the two books of the Chronicles.

I

Now is David king feeling so cold 

To marry with a virgin feature; 

but with her is not so strong and bold,

although she’s warm and nice by nature

5. since a man who reaches to be old, 

behaves  like a celestial creature, 

Reaching the peak of brightness, 

Fading away  ‘till  nothingness.

…to be continued…