3 poems from Lidia Chiarelli

Lidia Chiarelli (Torino, Italy). Artist and writer, co-founder, with Aeronwy Thomas, of the art-literary Movement Immagine & Poesia (2007). Award -winning poet.

Her poems are translated multilingually.

http://lidiachiarelli.jimdo.com/

Garden in October

In my Autumn garden I was fain

To mourn among my scattered roses

Christina Rossetti

Colours and sounds

mix in the October garden

where dying roses feed your soul.

Amber brown leaves waltz on the boughs

as you, Queen of Pre-Raphaelite beauty

discover wonder in

Autumn’s languid sun

of this ephemeral reign.

And in the dappled light

your words become

a subtle song

a hymn of devotion

to the fugitive hour

to the vanishing moment.

Bindu muna Gumiguru

Mubindu rangu reMatsutso ndaida

Kuchema pakati pemaruva matsuku aparadzirwa

Christina Rossetti

Mivara nemimanzi

Zvinobatana mubindu raGumiguru

Apo maruva matsvuku anofa achigutisa ninga dzako dzepfungwa

Uromba kutsvukirira mashizha anotamba achitenderera muviri wemuti

Kunge iwe, Mambokadzi weguva yakatangira runako rweRaphaelite

Wana zvishamiso mune

Zuva rakapomodzwa reMatsutso

Rekutongo uku kwenguva shoma

Uye mune mwenje mivara mivara

Mazwi ako anova

Rwiyo rusingaburitse zvese pachena

Rwiyo rwokurumbidza kuvimbika

Kune iyi nguva yakahwanda

Kune nhano ino inonyangarika

November sky

I love that sky of steel

Charlotte Brontë

Flocks of black  crows

re-write

the winter sky

with ancient signs.

As an impalpable veil

the cold haze

wraps

the barren moor

and your eyes

gradually

get lost

into that

magic metallic

light

Denga remunaMbudzi

Ndinoda iro denga resimbi

Charlotte Brontë

Ungano yemakunguwo matema

anonyorazve

denga rechirimo

nenyora dzechinyakare.

Kunge vharidziro yokumeso isingaonekwi

Mhute tete inotonhora

Inosunganidza

Gokora ivhu risina zviberekwa

Uye maziso ako

Zvishoma nezvishoma

Anorasikira

Mune iyi

Shamiso yenderama

mwenje

Poppy Red

I put my hands among the flames

Sylvia Plath

Of that summer

you had no memories

only red poppies

small flames

that burned your soul

a thousand poppies

open wounds

bleeding

inside you.

Your journey in search of oblivion

started in the soundless  hours of the day

now lost

in the barren paths of the mind.

Then  long sunset strips

sad omens

stained the sky red

slowly

surrounding  you

in deep muffled silence

Muti Mutsvuku Popi

Ndakaisa maoko angu pakati pemarimi

Sylvia Plath

Zvenguva iyi yezhizha

waiva usina kana ndangariro

kunze kwemiti yePopi mitsvuku

marimi emoto madiki

akapisa ninga dzepfungwa dzako

chiuru chemiti yePopi

maronda avhurwa patsva

ochururuka

mukati mako

rwendo rwako kutsvaga kunyangadika

rwakatanga munguva dzisinganzwikwe dzezuva

iye zvino dzarasika

munzira dzepfungwa dzisina zvibereko.

Zvakare marambi ezuva rodoka marefu

Shuvidziro dzakashata

dzinosvibisa denga dzvuku

zvinyoronyoro

dzinokutenderedza

mune runyararo rwakadzipirwa mukati kati

5 poems by Niladri Mahajan

An award winning bilingual poet, author of Poetry books- "A Diffused Room" and “Aura of Light”, a counselling psychologist, Niladri Mahajan lives in Kolkata, India. His poems are translated into French, Arabic, Bengali, Japanese and Italian. He is also a PhD student in Bioinformatics of Calcutta University. He is trained in Eastern and Western Classical music, is also participated in three group painting and photography exhibitions in recent past, and active as a street photographer, watercolour artist. He loves to do long afternoon walks, scuba diving and gliding.

 

Akahwina mikombe munyori anonyora nomitauro miviri, munyori wemabhuku enhetembo “Imba yakapfapfaidzwa” uye “Uromba hwemwenje”, dokotera anorapa pfungwa, Naladri Mahajan anogara kuguta reKolkota, Indiya. Nhetembo dzake dzakaturikirwa muchiFrench, Arabic, Bengali, Japanese uye Itariana. Mudzidzi wezvidzidzo zvepamusoro pauniversity zvefilosofi dhokotera mune zvokufambisa mashoko mukati memuviri paCulcutta Univhesiti. Akadzidziswa nezvemimhanzi yokumabvazuva neyekumadokero yechinyakare, uye akabatana nevamwe mukushambadzirwa kwezvemifananidzo yokupenda uye mipikicha yekamera munguva yapfuura, uye anowanikwa kazhinji achitora mipikicha munzira dzomudhorobha, uye kupenda. Anofarira

Maple Leaves

This morning light is a winter...

When I am in deep muse,

Spreads the snow

Beneath the deepest nature.

 Mashizha eMepuru

Rujeko rwemangwanani ano mwaka wechando…

Apo ndinenge ndiri mukufunga kwakadzama,

Unopararidzira chando

Kuenda pasi pasi pezvisikwa

You     

My offerings are

Only one word… you!

I murmured it slowly

As a never ending

Burning of an incense stick.

 Iwe

Zvipirwa zvangu ndizvo

Rimwechete izwi… iwe!

Ndakarizevezera zvinyoronyoro

Kunge chisingaperi

Kupiswa kwemuti weInisenzi

What is life?

Simplify all the figures

That’s in front of you.

Are you still angry?

This is not geometry

With a compass

And pencil, I know.

But I reflect you

As long as you are willing

To answer my questions

There.

Chii Chinonzi Hupenyu?

Tsanangura yose miviri

Zviri pamberi pako.

Wakachangogumbuka here?

Iyi haisi dzidziso yemiviri

Ine nhongedzo yenzira

Uye penzura, ndinozviziva.

Asi ndinoratidza iwe

Chete pose pauchange uchida

Kupindura mibvunzo yangu

Ipapo

First Love

An image… melting

Behind the frosty glass.

A steamy landscape.

Death-white. Coloured.

Rudo Rwokutanga

Mufananidzo… urikunyunguduka

Kuseri kwegirazi ravharwa nechando mhute.

Dunhu rine kufashaira

Kufa-kuchena. Rine mivara

My Kind Of Girl

                    

You are worst of everything

And sweet of nothing, any phrase

Defers you, in this habitual way.

Usually, it not fits you at all.

 Mhando Yomusikana Wangu

Wakashata mune zvose

Uye usina paunotapira, chipi chirahwe

Hachikubvumi, mune mukuita uku.

Kazhinji, hachikufiti kana zvacho

 Translation into Shona by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka

Tendai Rinos Mwanaka is a Zimbabwean publisher, editor, translator, mentor, writer, visual artist and musical artist with close to 30 books published, more here: http://www.africanbookscollective.com/authors-editors/tendai-rinos-mwanaka. He writes in English and Shona. His work has appeared in over 400 journals and anthologies from over 30 countries. Work has been translated into Spanish, Serbian, Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish, Hungarian, French and German.