Here is my Pangasinan translation of Pablo Neruda's Poema 12 (from Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada) based on the English translation by a Pulitzer Prize winner, W.S. Merwin :)
Say Pagew Mo Ag Ni Magenap
Say pagew mo ag ni magenap para’d pusok,
tan saray payak ko para’d kaoayangan mo.
No anto so nanaugip ed tapew na kamareruam ontagey
nauyos ed sangik a mamataoen.
Sika so duman pakamuria ed kada agew.
Sinmabi kan singa linaew a sankaakop da’ra’y rosas.
Mineleg mo’y nanabeta’y taoen tan dalin ed insaew mo.
Ag mangangga ya mantekiab a singa buraka.
Inkuan ko ya angansion ka ed dagem
singa saray saleng tan lusek.
Singa sikara atagey tan mangareereen ka,
tan maermen kan bengat la, a singa panlakbay.
Danopen mo’y ganagana ed sika a singa daan ya dalan.
Atoooan ka’y alalig tan makakailiw iran bosis.
Abangon ak tan no maminsan tinmekiab tan pinmikal la’ra’y billit
ya inmugip ed kamareruam.
Here is W.S. Mervin's translation in English:
Your Breast is Enough
Your breast is enough for my heart,
and my wings for your freedom.
What was sleeping above your soul will rise
out of my mouth to heaven.
In you is the illusion of each day.
You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers.
You undermine the horizon with your absence.
Eternally in flight like the wave.
I have said that you sang in the wind
like the pines and like the masts.
Like them you are tall and taciturn,
and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
You gather things to you like an old road.
You are peopled with echoes and notalgic voices.
I awoke and at times birds fled and migrated
that had been sleeping in your soul.
And here is Al S. Mendoza's translation--also in Pangasinan (published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sunday, January 3, 1999 issue). Copy of the said publication courtesy of Raul Moldez.
Susum Labat
Susum labat naksel lay pusok,
say paraypay koy pantikiab mo.
No antuman so unuugip untapew ed espiritum
unuyos ed sangik paunlad tawen.
Ed sikay ilusyon na inagewagew.
Simmabi kan singa linaew nilakap na rosas.
Say agmo imbuwat minelag mo kaimbuwasan.
Agka nabano ya singa layos.
Imbagak la ya angansiyon kad dagem
singal moy pinos tan mastilas.
Singa sikara atagtagey ka tan masansanting,
tampol, maermen kan singa biyahe.
Lingapen mon amin ya singa ka daan ya kalsada.
Manogaog so utek mon napnoy ecos tan boses ya papawilpawil.
No maminsan unliingak et timmikyab tan pimmikal iray billit
ya amin abayag immugip ed espiritum.
Say Pagew Mo Ag Ni Magenap
Say pagew mo ag ni magenap para’d pusok,
tan saray payak ko para’d kaoayangan mo.
No anto so nanaugip ed tapew na kamareruam ontagey
nauyos ed sangik a mamataoen.
Sika so duman pakamuria ed kada agew.
Sinmabi kan singa linaew a sankaakop da’ra’y rosas.
Mineleg mo’y nanabeta’y taoen tan dalin ed insaew mo.
Ag mangangga ya mantekiab a singa buraka.
Inkuan ko ya angansion ka ed dagem
singa saray saleng tan lusek.
Singa sikara atagey tan mangareereen ka,
tan maermen kan bengat la, a singa panlakbay.
Danopen mo’y ganagana ed sika a singa daan ya dalan.
Atoooan ka’y alalig tan makakailiw iran bosis.
Abangon ak tan no maminsan tinmekiab tan pinmikal la’ra’y billit
ya inmugip ed kamareruam.
Here is W.S. Mervin's translation in English:
Your Breast is Enough
Your breast is enough for my heart,
and my wings for your freedom.
What was sleeping above your soul will rise
out of my mouth to heaven.
In you is the illusion of each day.
You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers.
You undermine the horizon with your absence.
Eternally in flight like the wave.
I have said that you sang in the wind
like the pines and like the masts.
Like them you are tall and taciturn,
and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
You gather things to you like an old road.
You are peopled with echoes and notalgic voices.
I awoke and at times birds fled and migrated
that had been sleeping in your soul.
And here is Al S. Mendoza's translation--also in Pangasinan (published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sunday, January 3, 1999 issue). Copy of the said publication courtesy of Raul Moldez.
Susum Labat
Susum labat naksel lay pusok,
say paraypay koy pantikiab mo.
No antuman so unuugip untapew ed espiritum
unuyos ed sangik paunlad tawen.
Ed sikay ilusyon na inagewagew.
Simmabi kan singa linaew nilakap na rosas.
Say agmo imbuwat minelag mo kaimbuwasan.
Agka nabano ya singa layos.
Imbagak la ya angansiyon kad dagem
singal moy pinos tan mastilas.
Singa sikara atagtagey ka tan masansanting,
tampol, maermen kan singa biyahe.
Lingapen mon amin ya singa ka daan ya kalsada.
Manogaog so utek mon napnoy ecos tan boses ya papawilpawil.
No maminsan unliingak et timmikyab tan pimmikal iray billit
ya amin abayag immugip ed espiritum.
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