Poesia kaiera
Poesia kaiera
Christopher Okigbo
itzulpena: Karmen Irizar Segurola
2021, poesia
64 orrialde
978-84-17051-64-8
Christopher Okigbo
1932-1967
 
 

 

I. Basoko Kanta

 

Nagiak jota zaude, basoko haur hori,

herrixkan, aterki baten azpian,

soka malguari idokiz

       Basoko kanta bat.

Etxetik urrun, ihes eginda

sorterriko mugak utzi beharrean nago ni

larre oparoak,

       aberria utzi beharrean nago.

 

Baina zuk, basoko haur horrek

aterki azpian nagiak jota,

oihanari irakasten diozu basoko

       kanta nola abestu.

 

I. Song of the Forest

You loaf, child of the forest, / beneath a village umbrella, / plucking from tender string a / Song of the forest. / Me, away from home, run- / away, must leave the borders of our / land, fruitful fields, / must leave our homeland. // But you, child of the forest, / loaf beneath an umbrella, / teaching the woods to sing a / song of the forest.