My tears are running
Like a stream in the river.
Once more the sled of
Death launched me
Back in life and yelled:
Don’t blame me:
If the destiny has
trampled you
down.
© Yelling Rosa
27/5 -19
In English, the story is the same as in a Finnish version but I express it more abruptly, almost in a rude way. Luckily, I didn’t start to explain this verse though I didn’t immediately get its logic. Next day it was clear to me. Death is angry because it has been exploited. A human didn’t endure life. Of course, this is only my view. You might invent something else.
Kuoleman vaunut
Minun kyyneleeni juoksevat
kuin hengästynyt virta joessa.
Vielä kaatui kuoleman kelkka
mutkassa ja minut sinkosi
tykinkuulana taivaalle.
Perääni hihkaista ehti:
”Jos on elämä sinua
potkinut minua
älä syytä.”
© Yelling Rosa
27/5 –19
Finnish |
English |
Minun kyyneleeni |
My tears |
juoksevat |
are running |
kuin |
like |
hengästynyt virta |
a winded stream |
joessa. |
in the river. |
Vielä |
One more time |
kaatui |
fell down/did fall down |
kuoleman kelkka/vaunut |
the carriage of death/death |
mutkassa |
in the curve/corner |
ja minut sinkosi |
and launched me |
tykinkuulana |
like I were a cannonball |
taivaalle. |
in the sky/into the clouds |
|
Still it (death) has time |
Jos on elämä sinua |
If life has |
päähän potkinut |
kicked you to head => to kick to head (saying) = to treat cruelly |
älä minua syytä. |
don’t blame me. |
This poem recited in Finnish by me
You can read this verse in Interlingua here.
PS Please read my new poem in English, Russian and Finnish here.
Well put it, Yelling Rosa. Cheers
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Thank you. Happy to hear that 🙂
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Yes
Death is our destiny
Life is our story
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Yep, even it is so easy to forget.
Take care 🙂
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Death awaits us somewhere in life. Very good your poem.
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Thank you very much. You’re right 🙂
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Nice…
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Thank you very much 🙂
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You’re welcome…Rosa is it?
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👍
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I’m commenting on several of your posts, since past ones seem closed. Happy March Birthday to a fellow Piscean (mine is 3/15). Yes, we are sensitive souls who swim as gracefully as possible in this ocean of strangeness. I like your singing voice and how you used your own shadow in the YouTube presentation. Thanks for translating your poems here from Finnish to English. Fascinating poems. Well done.
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Thank you very much for your encouraging words. I am happy that you like my poems but my singing voice is not the same as it was in the eighties.
Lucky sailing to you ⛵️👍⛵️
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Our words, like voices, grow gravelly, deeper, wiser over time, like weathered rocks washed over and over by river water.
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Thank you. Let’s hope so 🙂
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Happy March Birthday. I’ll be 70 June 18. Health issues. Best medicine: live each day.
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Thank you very much. Yep, you’re right.
Let us try it every day 👍
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The death can wait. A beautiful poem!
Smile
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Thank you 🌝☃️🌝
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smile
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🙂
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😀
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We cannot escape death but must embrace life every day.
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Thank you for commenting. Yes, that’s right
Have a nice weekend 🙂
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Thanks for the comparison/contrast of languages! Loved the poem!
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Thank you. I am happy to hear that.
Have a nice weekend 🙂
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Enjoyed reading your beautiful poem!
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Thank you very much. I am happy that you like the poem.
Have a nice weekend 🙂
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Clever words, death has its own time planned for us and doesn’t want us to sneak up and choose just because we made a mess of things, then have everyone blaming death!
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Thank you for supporting the poem 😉
Take care
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If life has treated you cruelly don’t blame death. That is quite an interesting take. Death can be seen as the merciful ender of all suffering.
Don’t get cross with death because you suffered and did not die? Not death’s fault.
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Thank you for your comment. I agree with you 🙂
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That’s a beautiful piece there! 🙂
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It’s so crucial that we embrace life, accept it as it comes to us!🙂
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Thanks for your comment. You’re right 🙂
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You’re welcome 🙂
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🙂
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Thank you for nice words 😉
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My pleasure 😊
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Likewise 🙂
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🙂
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Oh yes, I guess we can’t blame death for destiny. But death shouldn’t be angry, because it wins in the end. 🙂
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Thank you for commenting. Perhaps this was one of those days when he/she was only in a bad mood 😉
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I would love to hear this recited in Finnish.
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Thank you for commenting. I have recited the poem named Kuoleman vaunut and you’ll find it under this title The Sled of Death
Take care ❤
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Nicely done! ❤
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Thank you very much 🙂
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That’s life.
You are a real poet!
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Thank you for encouraging words 🙂
Take care
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So interesting to read and think about the Finnish transliteration… a language I know almost nothing about. Strangely enough, in piecing together the Finnish word elements and idiom pictures, I arrive at a different possibility for the poem’s meaning, as compared to the English which seems more confined or straightforward.
In a way, I see death as a being, or it’s function as performed by a being with special capabilities and responsibilities. But he is constrained and bound to duty in this task. It is even a kind of sacred sacrifice for him, to uphold this task. He is not the one who chooses or decides the moment. That is governed by rules of destiny. One can also make very interesting readings of this poem while thinking on how it realtes to suicides.
Thank you very much, also, for looking at my technical writing website. Few have the patience for this… you deserve gratitude. 🙂
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Thank you for commenting. It can be so as you’re telling because I always try to find the result which suits with the language. On the other hand, I try to avoid explaining. I hope this leaves room for the reader to do own conclusions. Of course, I am not as skilled at English as I am at Finnish but what is possible in one language might be impossible in another one.
I earned my living by designing home pages and did some coding as well. Now after being retired some time I checked have things changed.
Take care 🙂
YR
PS You can listen to more of my poems in Finnish at here.
There is a Google Translator available 🙂
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Reblogged this on quirkywritingcorner and commented:
I enjoyed hearing this in Finnish and found it rather easy to follow. Delightful.
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Thank you very much for reblogging.
I am happy that you enjoyed hearing in Finnish.
If you want to have it more visit every now then my Finnish blog In most of the cases words are explained in English
There is a Google Translator available 🙂
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