ترجمات أدبية

ترجمة لنص الشاعر الكبير

يحيى السماوي

ترجمة د. بهاء العلق

Two Homelands, Two Tombs, Two Dreams, and Two Hopes

By Yahia Al Samawy / Australia

Translation Dr. Baha Alak / USA

I have two homelands:

The first extends as an umbilical cord

Linking the palm trees of Basra1

With the fig groves in Kurdistan2

Exuding grass, joy and safety!

The second is from paper

I instill in it love songs;

They sprout into poetry, silk handkerchiefs, and Anemone coronaries.

I am betwixt them;

A songbird:

My nest is a luminous grove,

My wings are two rivers

But:

In the last dawn prayer of Shaaban3,

Of the National Year of the Elephant they burned4;

The first homeland turned into a cemetery of green joy

The second: turned into

Grief and weeping sequestered in a cave of delirium!

I have two tombs:

The first is in my heart

Where I buried a country

Once overflowing with laughing shores:

Where deer fall asleep without horror,

A kiss leads lovers into every prayer,

And the pedestrian would not turn around in fear of a cleaver,

The blast of a car bomb or the fragments of rancor.

The second tomb:

Lies inside a body living in exile that questions

Where the soul resides now!

I am betwixt them: a walking coffin,

A silent scream fired in exile’s cave

By an oblivious throat!

I have two dreams;

First: to combine my roots with my branches.

Second: to stop the grove keepers from stealing the threshing and the grapes.

I have two hopes:

To produce in each oppressed city a "Guevara",

To demolish, with justice’s axe, the gods’ idols.

The second:

To attend the last murder scene;

Whereby the killing of poverty, oppression, injustice, horror,

and every enemy of human beings takes place.

1 Basra is the second largest city in Iraq located in the south. It is famous for its palm trees and delicious dates.

2 Kurdistan is the autonomous region north of Iraq known for its delicious figs

3 Shaban is the eighth month of the Lunar calendar, referring to the day when the poet escaped from Iraq after the mass uprising of 1991 failed.

4 The National Year of the Elephant: a periphrasis referring to the year of the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Husain Regimen and the aftermath of events that led to the Gulf War, 1991. The name in Islamic history is the year approximately equating to 570 CE. The name is derived from an event said to have occurred at Mecca: Abraha, the Christian ruler of Yemen, which was subject to the Kingdom of Aksum of Ethiopia, marched upon the Kaaba with a large army, which included one or more war elephants, intending to demolish it.

وطـنـان .. وقـبـران .. وحُـلـمـان .. وأمَـلان

يحيى السماوي

ليْ وطـنـانْ:

الأولُ يـمـتـدُّ كحـبـلِ الـسُّـرَّةِ

يـربـط بـيـن نخـيـلِ الـبـصـرةِ

وبـسـاتـيـنِ الـتـيـن ِ بكـردسـتـانْ

يـنـضحُ عـشـبـاً وحـبـوراً وأمـانْ!

الـثـاني مـن وَرَق ٍ. .

أغـرسُ فـيـه أغـانـي العـشـق ِ

فـتـنـبـتُ شـعـراً ومـنـاديـلَ حـريـر ٍ

وشــقـائـقَ نـعـمـانْ

وأنـا ما بـيـنهـمـا

طـيـرُ أغـانْ

عُـشـّـي بـسـتـان ٌ ضـوئـيٌّ

وجـنـاحـي نـهـرانْ

لـكـنْ

في آخـر تـكـبـيـرةِ فـجـر ٍ مـن شـعـبانْ *

من عام الـفـيـلِ الـقـوميِّ احـتـرقـا

فـإذا الـوطـنُ الأولُ: مـقـبـرة ٌ لـلـفـرح ِ الأخـضـر ِ ..

والـثـاني:

حـزن ٌ ونـشـيـجٌ فـي كـهـفِ الـهَـذيـانْ!

ليْ قـبـرانْ الأولُ في قـلـبـي

حـيـث دفـنـتُ بـلادا ً

كانـتْ يـومـا ً ضـاحـكـة َ الـشـطـآنْ

تـغـفـو فـيـهـا الـغـزلانُ بـلا رعـبٍ

وتـؤمُّ الـعـشـاقَ الـقـُبـلـة ُكـلّ أذانْ

لا يـتــلــفـَّـتْ فـيـهِ الـمـاشـي خـوفـا ً مـن ســاطـور ٍ

ودويِّ " مـفـخـخـةٍ " وشـظـايـا أضـغـانْ

الـثـاني:

في جـسـدٍ لا يعـرفُ فـي دار الـغـربـةِ

أيـن تـقـيـمُ الـروحُ الآنْ!

وأنـا ما بـيـنهـما: تـابـوتٌ يـتـمـشّـى ..

صرخة ُ صـمـتٍ تـطـلـقهـا في كهـفِ الـمـنـفـى

حـنجـرةُ الـنـسـيـانْ!

لـيْ حُـلـمـانْ

الأولُ: أنْ أجـمـعَ بـيـن جـذوري والأغـصـانْ

الـثـانـي: ألا يـسـرقـنـا الـبـيـدرَ والأعـنـابَ

نـواطـيـرُ الـبـسـتـانْ!

لـيْ أمَـلانْ:

أنْ يـُولـدَ فـي كـلِّ مـديـنـةِ قـهـر ٍ " جـيـفـارا "

لـيـدكَّ بـفـأس الـعـدل ِ الآلـهـة َ الأوثـانْ

والـثـانـي:

أنْ أحـضـرَ آخـرَ مــشـهــدِ قـتـل ٍ

يُـقـتـلُ فـيـهِ .. الـفـقـرُ .. الـقـهـرُ .. الـظـلـمُ .. الـرعـبُ ..

وكلُّ عـدوٍّ للإنسان

*إشارة الى يوم هربي من العراق بعد فشل الانتفاضة الجماهيرية