Guest Fadi Posted May 23, 2001 Report Share Posted May 23, 2001 Well it took me times to translate it so better to read it all To the ones that would say, yeh right he just used a translator it would take a few second. Then I say take a poem a try to translate it and see what will happen, and if you will understand. Fact I used a translator, but took a hour or so, to correct all the sens mistakes... so the moral of the story... just read it Ah and forgot if some could correct grammer mistakes, then go ahead. THEY FELLED They felled, without really knowing why Men, women, and children who wanted only to live With heavy gestures like drunk men Mutilated, massacred, their eyes open of fear. They felled while calling upon their God On the threshold of their church or a step of their doorLike herd of the desert, staggering, as a troop Lay low by thirst, hunger, iron, fire. No one raised his voice in an euphoric worldWhile a people was stagnating in his bloodEurope discovered jazz and its musicThe complaints of the trumpets covered the cries of children. They felled moderately, without sound,By thousands, by millions, without the world moving for them,Becoming one moment, tiny red flowersCovered by a wind of sand and then forgotten. They felled, their eyes full of sun,As a bird in flight a ball crashes to piecesTo die wherever and without leaving traces,Ignored, forgotten in their last sleep. They felled while believing, ingenuous,That their children could continue their childhood,One day they would cross the grounds of hopeIn open countries men with tended hands. Me I am of these people which sleep without burialWho chooses to die without abdicating his faith,Who has never lowered his head from the insult,Who survives despite everything and who does not complain. They felled to be able to enter in the nightEternal of times, at the end of their courageDeath struck them, without asking their ageBecause they were faulty of being children of Armenia. [ May 23, 2001: Message edited by: Domino ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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