“There you are again, near the stage and the flowers, which were the great love”. The poem “A spruce in the yard of the National Theater” by Robert Schwartz, dedicated to the actor Prokop Mima

Memorie.al publishes the poem “A spruce in the courtyard of the National Theater” (recited for Prokop Mima) written by the famous translator, Robert Schwartz, “Great Master”, one of the best connoisseurs of the German language in Albania, who He passed away on April 25, 2003. The poem is dedicated to the great actor of the Albanian stage and cinematography, Prokop Mima, “Merited Artist”, which was published by the author and published in “Gazeta Shqiptare” on June 2. of 2000, on the occasion of the publication of a dossier article, about the giant of the Albanian scene.

By Robert Schwartz

A BROTHER IN THE OBORR OF THE NATIONAL THEATER

(Requiem for Prokop Mima)

Your whole life,

your whole life how long

so short, brother-in-law,

spruce remains, somewhere in the north acartin,

strong spruce,

straight like a candle,

dreaming of another fate –

perhaps that palm of the hot places,

perhaps that Mediterranean sky,

that our sun, that your sun

under which they did not want

to leave us a place!…

And now that you are no more,

now that they died prematurely

and the boards of your stage so dear

they turned them into coffin boards –

now a noble spirit

to uproot from oblivion

and out of ingratitude

and from envy

and rape

and immortalized you again

on  spruce,

according to the sacred rite of the ancient Romans

and of today’s Jews!

You’re there again, brother-in-law,

near your stage,

near your crystal word

of our masculine language,

near your flowers that were

your great love, near your life,

among your friends!

You’re there again,

simple and greedy

titles and crowns –

and you will become

a tall upright spruce,

as you were in life.

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