Rabindranath Tagore · ö. 1941
Stray Birds
Source: şairin kendi çevirisi · Project Gutenberg
Approaching this work
Take your time. Read it not as a doctrine but as a conversation — wherever a line stays with you, pause there. What you don’t understand is often where to linger.
Your intention
With what intention do you approach this text today? You don’t need to write an answer — just ask yourself, for a moment.
Kaynak: Stray Birds, şairin kendi çevirisi, kamu malı (PD-US) — Project Gutenberg
Sayfa 1 / 28
Produced by Chetan K. Jain and Eric Eldred
[translated from Bengali to English by the author]
1 Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
2 O troupe of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words.
3 The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.
4 It is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.
5 The mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away.
6 If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
7 The sands in your way beg for your song and your movement, dancing water. Will you carry the burden of their lameness?
8 Her wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.
9 Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
10 Sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening among the silent trees.
Bu metin, kaynağındaki kamu-malı çeviridir; resmî bir kurum çevirisi değildir. Bir mercektir — kehanet, dinî hüküm ya da kesin yargı değildir. Karar senindir.