Category: Translations-Transcreations to English
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The Year 1400
A hundred years on from this day Who are you that reads my poem With such curiosity pray —
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The Illusion Tree (Mayatoru)
There happened to be a tree Throwing up its arms, As soon as the eve arrived, It danced in ghostly spree.
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Surrender (Samarpan)
Showers have arrived over the river The water has risen in a tide Like hopes one keeps concealed — a few Fireflies dim oft come to view
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When It Began to Rain
It’s begun to rain deep inside me, my boat has lost its keel To quit the shore in search of the shoreless, I have no means I feel At hand, perhaps, I had them before the showers had arrived …
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Tangerine
Once I leave this body Won’t I ever come back to the world again? I hope I do return
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Dedication
Ask me not, when, nor whichever song, To whom I had gifted, that’d all be wrong, On the wayside it gathers dust,
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Lost My Count of Time
Lost my count of time and the miles that travelled I The lands I went avisiting and let my purse go dry
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Hasn’t Your Mind Yet
Hasn’t your mind yet begun to rock, my dear
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Rainy Day
The rains’ turn it was — to usher in the morn, As the sky stood lost — in the embrace of the dark,
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Kurani (Foundling)
Lips pouted, head tilted in rage, Nostrils inflated, eyes ablaze,
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