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Spring

Edgars Iltners (1973)

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Edgars Iltners (Latvian, 1925-1983) - Ice Hockey (1979)

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Farm Workers, Edgars Iltners (1925 – 1983)  Soviet-Latvian painter

Pan’s Bed

Between the last roses and the first mint, Between July’s bird chorus and November’s storms Fleeting Time has burned up the cult of Pan. So between the golden sunny days And the threatening stormy walls Pan sleeps in his gold and purple bed.

Though Pluto sends him Persephone With flax flowers, and narcissus in hand, Bacchus offers the cup with vine-leaf crown And sheaves and fruits, encircling round; Still the cups foam with divine fuel, Still the flow of plenty masks the rustle of destruction.

Is Autumn loss or gain? The seed of life? Or nearing of annihilation? Do we again feel chilled, turned to tin? No! - Autumn is more than just pain, He is both the culmination of Summer, And in death, wears the wreath of May.

- Aspazija (From her collection:  In The Time Of Asters - Autumn Poems, 1928)

My translation from the Latvian. Read more for the Latvian original. Even if you can’t read Latvian it is worth looking, just so that you can see the strong rhyming she used here - alas, sacrificed in the translation.

PĀNA GULTA Starp pēdējām rozēm un pirmajām mētrām, Starp jūlija tvīksmi un novembra vētrām Laiks gavilēs sadedzis Pāna kultā. Nu vidū starp zeltainām saules dienām Un melni draudošām negaisa sienām Guļ Pāns savā zelta un purpura gultā.

Gan Plūtons tam sūta Persefoni Ar veļu puķēm, narcisēm, rokā, Bet Bakhus sniedz kausu ar vīnlapu kroni, Un kūļi un augļi visapkārt stāv lokā; Vēl kausi puto no dievišķās malkas, Vēl pilnības plūsma sedz nīcības šalkas.

Vai rudens zaudējums ir vai guvums? Vai dzīvības sēkla? Vai nīcības tuvums? Vai atkal mums atsalt stinguma alvā? Nē! —Rudens nav vien tikai sāpinājums, Viņš reizē ir vasaras kāpinājums, Un nāvei maija vaiņags ir galvā.

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Edgars Iltners (1925-1983)

Jūras krasts // Seashore (1970)

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Edgars Iltners (Latvian, 1925-1983) - Amber Searchers (1959)

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Edgars Iltners (Latvian, 1925-1983) - Landowners (1960)

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Edgars Iltners (Latvian, 1925-1983) - In the Countryside of Latvia (1975)

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Edgars Iltners (Latvian, 1925-1983) - My Latvia (1982)