Tu çi dixwînî?
Tarkovsky, helbestên Arseni Tarkovsky.
Bi Rûsî?
Na. Werger e.
Wergereke pir baş e.
Zûka wê bavêje.
Çima?
Wergêr şairekî pir baş e.
Helbest nayê wergerandin,
eynî layî hemû hunerên din.
Heye tu mafdar bî ku
ev helbest nayê wergerandin.
Lê mûzîk? Sermeselê mûzîk?
Ew çi ye? Çi ye tu dibêjî?
Straneke Rûsî ye.
Belê em ê çawa Tolstoy, Puşkîn
nas bikin, bixwînin.
…herweha çawa Rûsya fêm bikin?
Tu nikarî Rûsya fêm bikî.
Tu jî Îtalya naxwe.
Heke ne bi alîlarîya kesên wekî
Dante, Petrarca û Machiavelli be.
Helbet, ji bo me rebenên Xwedê ev ne gengaz e.
Em ê çawa, çilo hev nas bikin?
Bi rakirina sînoran.
Kîjan sînor?
Sînorên navbera dewletan.
Wer: B.Ronîzêr
The Laughing Heart
your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.
Pippa Passes
The year’s at the spring
And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven;
The hillside’s dew-pearled;
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn:
God’s in His heaven—
All’s right with the world!
Werger/Translation 