Bugün Pazar (Nazim Hikmet, 1948)

Bugün Pazar

Bugün beni ilk defa güneşe çıkardılar.

Ve ben ömrümde ilk defa

gökyüzünün bu kadar benden uzak

bu kadar mavi

bu kadar geniş olduğuna şaşarak

kımıldanmadan durdum.

Sonra saygı ile toprağa oturdum.

Dayadım sırtımı beyaz duvara.

Bu anda ne düşmek dalgalara

bu anda ne kavga,

                        ne hürriyet, ne karım.

                                    Toprak, güneş ve ben...

                                    Bahtiyarım.

Today is Sunday.

Today for the first time they let me out in the sun.

And for the first time in my life

I was astonished at how far, how blue, how vast the visible sky was from me

and I stood still.

Later on, respectfully I sat down on the ground

I leaned my back against the white wall.

At this moment, no worry

at this moment, no struggle

no freedom

no wife.

Just the earth, the sun, and I...

I am happy.

Κυριακή σήμερα.

Σήμερα για πρώτη φορά μ'άφησαν να βγω στον ήλιο.

Και σήμερα, για πρώτη φορά, έμεινα ακίνητος, έκπληκτος με το πόσο μακρινός

πόσο γαλάζιος

πόσο απέραντος είν' ο ουρανός.

Μετά, κάθισα με σεβασμό στο χώμα

κι ακούμπησα την πλάτη μου στον λευκό τοίχο.

Εκείνη τη στιγμή, ούτε μια έγνοια

ούτε ο αγώνας

ούτε η ελευθερία

ούτε η γυναίκα μου.

Μόνο το χώμα, ο ήλιος κι εγώ...

Είμαι ευτυχισμένος.

A tribute to ee cummings : "I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing, than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"

if up's the word;
and a world grows greener
minute by second and most by more--
if death is the loser and life is the winner
(and beggars are rich but misers are poor)
----let's touch the sky:
with a to and fro
(and a here there where)and away we go


in even the laziest creature amoung us
a wisdom no knowledge can kill is astir--
now dull eyes are keen and now keen eyes are keener
(for young is the year;for young is the year)
---let's touch the sky:
with a great(and a gay
and a steep)deep rush through amazing day


it's brains without hearts have set saint against sinner;
put gain under gladness and joy under care--
let's do as an earth which can never do wrong does
(minute by second and most by more)
---let's touch the sky:
with a strange(and a true)
and a climbing fall into far near blue


if beggars are rich(and a robin will sing his
robin a song)but misers are poor--
let's love until noone could quiet be(and young is
the year,dear)as living as i'm and as you're
---let's touch the sky:
with a you and a me
and an every(who's any who's some)one who's we