Blai Bonet

Parasceve

Language: catalan

Translations: english (Good Friday)

Parasceve

Lamentació

No me talleu els brots del meu dolor.
Deixau-me omplir la boca de donzell.
Segau-me els cascavells de glòria antiga
i les flautes collides a dins l'aire.

Despullau-me la meva pell cremada
de les fines camises de lli blanc.
Que resti com un mort estès, fet pedra,
en llarga quietud dura d'altar.

No puc parlar, que tinc la meva boca
-urna de sol ponent, flors de safrà-,
inflada de tant glopejar la deixa
de l'Amat: blanca lluna del seu cel...

Blai Bonet

photo © C Eloi Bonjoch

* 10.12.1926, Santanyí, Spain
† 01.12.1997, Santanyí, Spain

Blai Bonet was born into a humble family in Santanyí in 1926. At the age of ten, he entered the Catholic seminary of Palma, where he became acquainted with the Classics, Philosophy, and the Humanities. A lung illness caused him to abandon his ecclesiastical career and marked all his subsequent work. During his stay in the Caubet sanatorium, he started to write his novel The Sea, which had a deep impact when it appeared. His first poetry also dates from these early years. He died in his home town of Santanyí in December 1997, after some years of isolation from all literary circles.

photo © C Eloi Bonjoch

The work of Bonet (poetry and novel) is very much associated with light and colour. Light, as a metaphor of God, and colour, as the passions of light (Goethe): hence, poetry as the colour that gives character to life. Bonet once said that “my intention when I write is to illuminate those who read me”. Bonet’s work is also a meditation on God and human life, and offers a certain prophetic vision within the current of Christian existentialism. In regard to this relationship between God and man, Bonet also reflects on sin and its epitome, Judas, a recurrent figure in his poetic and novelistic universe. The poet, according to Bonet, explains the world through synthesis and, as a repository of Art, is called on to dispel darkness from mystery.

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