ပိေတာက္ေရႊဝါ

ပိေတာက္ေရႊဝါ

လတန္ခူးေပမို႔၊ အလွထူးပါဘိ
ျမျမဖူးရယ္တဲ့ ခိုင္ေရႊဝါ။
တကယ္တမ္းသာျဖင့္ ၊ ဘယ္ပန္းေသာ္စံမတူဘူ႔
နႏၵမူ ဖန္ကူထိပ္မွာလွ ၊ ပေစၥကာေခၽြးေတာ္သိပ္ရတယ္
ဧရိပ္ဆာယာ။
တစ္ႏွစ္တြင္ သည္တစ္လေပပ တစ္လတြင္ တစ္ရက္ထဲ
ခက္ခဲတဲ့ရက္ဗုဒၶ ၊ ပြင့္ရွာၾကစံုၿမိဳင္တြင္း
ျမဴမင္းလြင္ထန္ ၊ ၾကဴသင္းတာခ်ိန္ယံမေတာ့၊
ေရႊဝတ္ဆံငံုတံေညွာက္ကယ္ႏွင့္
ခါသႀကၤန္ ဂိမာန္ေရာက္ျပန္ေတာ့
သိန္သေရထိန္ေဝလို႔ ေတာက္တဲ့ျပင္
လမ္းတစ္ေလွ်ာက္သင္းပါဘိ
ဆန္းသေလာက္မလင္းႏိုင္ဘူး ပန္းပိေတာက္မင္း။

ဦးေၾကာ့

THE GOLDEN-YELLOW PADAUK
In the month of Tagu
From emerald green leaf-clusters
Bloom forth golden-yellow flowers.

Truly what other flowers
Can compare with these in beauty
There in padauk's cool breezy shade
Where the flow of sweat ceases
At the entrance to Nanda Cave—
Retreat of the Pacceka Buddha.

During one month in a year
During one day in that month
During that Day for the Buddha
Padauk blooms forth in the forest.

Summertime !
The time of Thingyan has arrived.
And glorious is the golden pollen
Mistily blown from padauk
And spreading its fragrance
Along forest roads.

No one can describe all the marvels
Of this royal flower Padauk !
U Kyawt


U Kyawt flourished in the reign of King Mindon
(1853-1878 C.E.)
Tagu is the first Burmese lunar month(part of April and of May) Nanda cave is a mythological name for a cave supposedly situated somewhere in a jungle and to which no oridinary being has aces. Only super beings-Buddha, Pacceka Buddhas , and Nat Spirits or the like-may stay in this cave. Pacceka Buddha is a Buddha who has attained enlightenment but who does not preach
to the world.