Something else to translate
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 7, 2002, 5:18 |
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We seem to be in the mood lately, so here are the last lines of a favorite
poem of mine, Indonesian Chairil Anwar's "Di Mesjid" (At the Mosque), a
dialogue between the poet and God. I may have the first two lines, and the
adjectives in the last two, reversed; I couldn't find a text online.
In Indonesian:
....
binasa-membinasa,
nista-menista--
yang satu gila
yang lain marah.
....Destroying each other,
hurling insults,
the one crazy
the other mad(angry)
Kash:
...micaçakrum liya-liya,
niletu rumecut--
mesani hañukók
liyani mara-marak
mi-ca-çakrum liya-liya
1pl.-accid-destroy other-other
nile-tu rum-ecut
1pl-dat-refl. caus-dirty
mesa-ni hañu-kok (properly hañukonga)
one-3s/poss. soul-lost
liya-ni mara-marak
other-3poss. (redupl.)angry