စံပယ္ပန္း

စံပယ္ပန္း

ပန္းစံပယ္ နန္းလယ္မေပၚခိုက္ဟာမို႔

အလိုက္ေတာ္တန္သင့္ရံုပ ခံပြင့္ကိုကံုး
နန္းရေဝ မန္းေျမ စံပယ္လႈိင္ေတာ့
ခံပန္းခိုင္ ယာယီေရြ႕တယ္ ေတာေလ့ရြာသံုး
ဦးပုည


JASMINE

When jasmine
Is not in bloom
In palace gardens
Courtiers must
Bedeck themselves
With kan flowers

When jasmine
Is in full bloom
In Mandalay's
Palace gardens
Courtiers never
Adorn themselves
With kan flowers.

Then kan flowers
Find favor only
Among villagers.

U Ponnya

U Ponnya was known as the best of the poets in the reign of King Mindon (1853-1878 C.E.). The King gave U Ponnya a noble title and some land as a fief. Jasmine has a sweet odor and is beautiful whereas kan flowers although beautiful have no odor.


Жасмин

Когда Жасмин не цветет в садах дворца.
Придворным приходится украшать себя цветами Кана.
Когда Жасмин в полном цвету в садах Мандалайского дворца .
Придворные никогда не украшают себя цветами Кана.
Тогда эти цветы приносят счастье , радость и доставляют удовольствие , жителям деревни.

Кан - это маленькие цветы как Жасмин .

ေတာပန္းမ်ား

ေတာပန္းမ်ား

နီနံ႔သာျဖဴ အေတာ္ဖက္ပါလို႔ သည္အငူေမာ္အတက္မွာလွ
ေက်ာ္ကရမက္ငယ္က ေမႊးလွတယ္
ဂိမ္အကူးေပမို႔ ခ်ိန္ဦးဝသန္မွီလို႔
ဟန္ခ်ီခ်ီ ပ်ံပုရစ္ေတြက ဖူးလွစ္စသြယ္။
ရပ္ေျမျပင္သည္အလွဲ႔မွာေတာ့ ခတ္ေရႊရင္ ပလီခဲ့တာမို႔
သည္ႏြဲ႔ႏြဲ႔ခိုင္စံပယ္ငယ္ ၿမိဳင္လယ္မွႀကိဳင္ေလွာင္း။
ေပါင္းပင္ လက္ေမာင္းလိမ္လည္တင္လို႔
ႀကိမ္ႏြယ္သြင္ တမည္ရွိေပငဲ့ ေလႏွင္ရာ ေငြစင္အိသကဲ့သို႔
ႏွစ္အေျခ ေခတ္ေရထိျပန္ေတာ့
ေခ်ာင္ငူမွာ ေတာင္သူတို႔သိရန္ဖို႔
ဆန္းေပြပိေတာင္းတဲ့မွ ပန္းေငြမိေက်ာင္း
ဦးေၾကာ့

FOREST FLOWERS

Budding branches sway daintily in the winds
Blooming forth into abundance.
Red-dappled white flowers of nan-tha
And blooms of sandalwood
Sweetly scent the foothills.
Summertime ends
But it is not yet the season of rains.
From the ground below
Rises khatta's overwhelming perfume
While from above
Jasmine's small swinging branches
Send down their fragrance.

Climbing the forest trees
Khabaung flowers sway in the wind
Like rain-soaked silver strands.
Later in the rains their stems too
Will be all a silver hue.

And in the valleys
Surprisingly charming too
Are the strange flowers
Called by the villagers
Crocodile flowers.

စစ္ခ်ီ

စစ္ခ်ီ
ဘာမရြံ႕ပါဘု သက္စြန္႔ငယ္ႀကိဳးႏြံ အဆိုးငယ္လြန္သည္
ရဲေဖာ္ကၽြန္ရန္ႏွိပ္ႏွင့္ ေအာင္ခ်ိန္သင့္သည့္ရက္ကိုေလး
ဖူးငံုငယ္ခိုင္လန္း ၿမိဳင္စခန္းမွာ ညခ်မ္းငယ္ေနၫို
တိုက္စည္ေမာင္းငယ္ႏွင့္ ရိုက္ေျငာင္းသံခ်ဳိလွတယ္
ႏွင္ၿဖိဳလႊင့္ျမဴတိမ္လို ေဇယ်ာသိန္ေနာင္ရန္ဖက္မို႔
တိုက္ဖ်က္မယ္ေလး

ဦးၾကင္ဥ

MILITARY MARCH

We are not afraid of anything!
We are daring and brave
Ready to sacrifice our lives
With Parpahein marching to the royal city
On this day fixed as the day of victory.

At our camp in the forest
Verdant are the branches
Full of small flower buds;
Sweet are the sounds
Of the military drums and gongs
In the soft evening's twilight

Just as mists and clouds are dispersed
So too must we destroy our enemy
The elder brother Zeyathein.

U Kyin U

Zeyathein is an imaginary prince, an heir apparent, and one of the chief characters of U Kyin U's play entitled "Parpahein Pyazat". In the denouement of the drama Zeyathein is being attacked by Parpahein, Zeyathein's younger brother, and in the fighting loses his throne to his younger brother. The above excerpt is of course only a small part of the whole play. (F.L.)

ေတာ္ကဆုန္

ေတာ္ကဆုန္

ေဟမန္ေႏြလွန္လို႔တံု႔ျပန္ေတာ့၊ ေဘြသဟံ
ေ၀ယန္အံု႔ဆီကေလျပန္လႈံ႔ေဆာ္ခဲ့ျပီ။ ။

ပင္ေပၚထက္၊ ေရာ္ရြက္၀ါထိန္ေ၀ႏွင့္၊
ခါဂိေမွသည္တေခတ္တြင္မွ၊ ညွာလိမ္ေႂကြတမည္သစ္
မည္ေၾကာင့္၊ အသစ္ေတြေထြကာစုပါလို႔၊ ပုရစ္ေခြ
တမာႏုမွာကြယ္၊ ေက်းဥစီစီ။ ။
ခင္တန္းလွ်ိဳသေျပပင္က၊ ေရႊသဇင္သုတ္ေလ
ေႏွာျပန္ေတာ့၊ ေန၀င္လွ်င္ဘုတ္ေတြေရာပါလို ့၊
အုတ္ေရႊဩရယ္ကတြန္သံခ်ီ၊ ဌာနီႏွင့္ကြာေ၀း။ ။

ဖန္ခါခါ၊ လမၺရာစည္ဍိ႑ိေပမို ့၊ ၀သန္မွာ
ဆည္မခ်ိၿပီဘူ႔၊ ပူမိသည္ေမွာ္ရဂံုက၊ ေတာ္ကဆုန္
ေညာင္ေရသြန္းခ်ိန္မို႔၊ ေဖၚမစံုေအာင္ေျမကြန္းဆီသို ့
လြမ္းလိုက္လွေသး။
ဦးေၾကာ့

THE ROYAL KASON
As the hot season
Revolts against the cold
In the pattern of contrasts
The firmament becomes cloudy
And winds are hot again.
It is summer.

Leaves on trees turn yellow,
To fall to show new leaves
Stems twist or break, yet
Sprouts on tama trees
Are now soft greens
Like parrot eggs.

While in summer trees thirst
In foothills thazin flowers
Are climbing thabye trees
Effusing fragrance
Mixing with the wafting air.

At sunset crow-pheasants are cooing,
And from afar come the cuckoo's notes.
Now and again thunder is beating
Through heaven's expanses
Like lambara and deindi drums.

And I...
Oh,I think
Of the pouring of water
On the Bodhi tree
And of the absent companion
In the Golden Palace of Victory,
And I am mournful.

U Kyawt

Kason is the Burmese second lunar month (May) and its full-moon day is the day on which the Buddha was born, obtained enlightenment, and on which he also passed away.
Bodhi tree is the tree under which Buddha obtained enlightenment.

ပင္လယ္ခရုမ်ား

ဒီကဗ်ာေလးေတြက ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ငယ္ငယ္ကေလးဘဝက ေက်ာင္းမွာသင္ခဲ့တဲ့ ေရွးကဗ်ာေကာင္းေတြပါ ဒီကဗ်ာေတြက ျမန္မာ့ စာေပ ျမန္မာ့ယဥ္ေက်းမႈေတြကိုေဖၚျပေနတဲ့ ကဗ်ာမ်ားျဖစ္ၿပီး ပင္လယ္ကမ္းေနရာ တစ္ခုရဲ့ သဘာဝအလွတရားကုိေဖၚက်ဴးေရးသားထားျခင္းပါ

ပင္လယ္ခရုမ်ား

ႀကံဳစဖူး ျမင္ဘူးမွ ယံုစဖြယ္
ျဖဴနီဝါျပာတစ္စုနဲ႔ ခရုေထြလာဆန္း
ကမ္းေကြ႔ပတ္လည္။
ေရႊမင္တံ သံပျခဳပ္ႏွင့္ ဟန္ရုပ္ျပသြယ္သြယ္
နတ္မယ္လ်ဆံထိုး။

ဝင္ကစြပ္ ျမင္ဆြတ္ကၾကည္ဖို႔ရာ ဟိုသို႔လာ
ဒီသို႔သြားႏွင့္ အငွားခႏၶာေျမွာင္ရတယ္
ဆန္းေခါင္ထိမ်ဳိး ။

ဦးၾကင္ဥ

SEA SNAILS

If you meet
If you see
You believe.

So quaint to see
On curved sea shores
Clusters of snails
Whites reds yellows and blues
Moving and displaying themselves,
Some golden penholders
Others hard iron tarps
Still others-fairies' hairpins.

Oh? Hermit crabs!
Coming here or going there
And everywhere
Attention attracting
By borrowing
Empty sea snail shells
To live in them
And move about in them.

Bizarre indeed are these.

U Kyin U

U Kyin U wrote poems and enjoyed great renown in the reigns of King Bagyidaw (1819-1837), King Tharrawaddy (1837-1846 C.E.) and King Pagan (1846-1853 C.E.).

ေတာဖြဲ႔

ေတာဖြဲ႔

ခိုင္အနန္းငယ္ႏွင့္ ႀကိဳင္လန္းငယ္ဝတ္ရည္
ၿမိဳင္ခန္းငယ္စည္သည္ ခါေတာ္မွီ တာႀကၤန္မွာ
ေရႊလွ်ံညွာရင့္ေျပာင္းတယ္ေလး ။
႐ႈတုိင္းသာ လင္းျပာသန္႔စင္ သိုက္ၿမံဳတင္လို႔
က်ဴးရင့္ေၾကာ္ျငာ ေရႊဥဩတို႔ ေဖၚေႏွာကာႏွင့္
ခရာတဲ့ေက်းငယ္ကို ေရႊခ်ဳိင့္ဝယ္ သည္မယ္ေမြးခ်င္လွ
ဖမ္းပါ့ေဖ ဟန္မေႏွးပါႏွင့္ ေျပးေရာ့မယ္ေလး။

လႈိင္ထိပ္ေခါင္တင္

SONG OF THE FOREST

Fragrant and fresh
Are the whole branches
Brimming with new life;
Brilliant are the leaves
All golden lights.
Pleasant are the forests
At Thingyan's festival time.

One delights to see
Lingpya birds building nests;
To hear cuckoos in pairs
Making heavenly melodies; and
To see a parakeet's lovely airs
Makes a maiden long to
To feed him in a cage.

"Oh darling!
Catch him without delay
He is about to fly away."

Princess Hlaing-Teik-Khaung-Tin

Princess Hlaing-Teik-Khaung-Tin (1833- 1 875 C.E)was gifted poetess and musician as well as one of the most beautiful women at the Mandalay Court. She married the younger brother of King Mindon and was therefore the consort of the Heir Apparent of the Court.

လွည္းယဥ္ေတာ္ႂကြႂကြ (ေလးခ်ဳိး)

လွည္းယဥ္ေတာ္ႂကြႂကြ

ပြဲဆင္ေတာ္ ျပသေပးရန္မို႔
လွည္းယဥ္ေတာ္ ႂကြႂကြေလးရယ္နဲ႔
မမေလးကိုတဲ့ လိုက္ဖို႔ေခၚ ။

တခ်ဳိ႕က ေခ်ာသနဲ႔
တို႔ေတာနယ္ ရြာတစဥ္မွာေတာ့
ၿမိ့ဳေက်ာဖြယ္ တန္ဆာဆင္ၾကပံုက
အျပာတြင္ မဲေရာင္ခရမ္းရယ္နဲ႔
ပဝါဆင္ ဖဲေစာင္မွ ဆန္းတယ္လို႔
ထာဝစဥ္ ပဲြေဘာင္ကို ျမန္မးၾကတယ္
ကဲ ေျပာင္ခန္းေဖၚတယ္ေနာ္ကြယ္
လွည္းေဆာင္ပန္းေပၚ။

တူၿပိဳင္ကာ ႏွစ္ေယာက္တဲြပါလို႔
ျခဴၿမိဳင္စြာ ခေလာက္ဆဲြတဲ့ျပင္
ေနာက္လွည္းက ေရွ႕လွည္းကိုေက်ာ္
ေဟ့ဟဲ့ေအာ္လို႔ ေသာင္းညံေႂကြး
ေကြ႔လႊဲေခ်ာ္လို႔ ေမာင္းျပန္ေသး။

CARVED BULLOCK— CART

In his carved bullock-cart
He takes his girl to the pwe

Many are the beautiful girls
In his village district;
Some are better dressed
Than the girls in town
And as they go to the pwe
Sitting up front in the carts
Attention they attract
With their blue, black
And violet hued kerchiefs
Round their necks
And small satin stoles
On their shoulders.

Each young man and his girl
Snugly sitting side by side.

As the cart from behind
Overtakes the cart in front
Bells of wood and metal ring;
Young men yell across to each other
Racing with their carts
Moving abreast of one-another
One cart on the road
The other close-by.

A pwe is a stage performance including music, dancing repartee, singing and folk opera. Most of the poems included in this book were first heard by the Burmese people at some pwe.

တို႔အလ်င္ ၿမိ့ဳအဝင္ သညာဂုဏ္ေၾကာင့္
သို႔မွပင္ ျမင္ခါႀကံဳေတာ့မယ္လို႔
ပ့်ဳိသခင္ ရင္ပါခုန္တဲ့ေအာင္
အားအန္ကုန္ သိပ္ကြာမေဝးေစဖို႔
ႂကြားမာန္ဟုန္ ထိပ္ၾကာကေလးရယ္နဲ႔
ႏြားၾကန္စံု ပိႆေပးတို႔ကို
မိုးေမာ့က ေႏွးမွာေၾကာင့္ ႀကိဳးေလွ်ာ့လို႔ေပး

(ဦးရာေက်ာ္)

To be first at the town's entrance
And to be first at the pwe means praise
And to be first means a better place.
The boy is excited he must try hard
No longer distant is the place.

Proud is he of his bullocks
Purchased for over a hundred kyats.
And proud are his perfect bullocks
With their white-spotted foreheads.
Restrain them with reins
And bullocks look skyward
And the pace suffers
So slacken the reins.

(U Yar Kyaw)
U Ya Kyaw gained celebrity in the reign of King Thibaw (1878-1885 C.E.). U Yar Kyaw was considered a master of reahsm.
The kyat is the Burmese monetary unit.

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.

တေပါင္းလ

တေပါင္းလ

ေတာင္ထိပ္ေပၚမွာ ႏြယ္ခ်ဳိေႏွာလို႔ ၊
ဥဩတြန္တဲ့ လရာသီ။
ဖက္ဆြတ္ကယ္ သေျပပန္း ၊ လန္းခဲ့ျပန္ၿပီ။
တေပါင္းလရယ္တဲ့ပြဲေတာ္မီွ၊ သရဖီနဲ႔
ကံ့ေကာ္ပန္း။
ပုပၸါးေတာင္ေတာ္သာက
ေမႊးလာခ်က္ဆန္း ။

THE MONTH OF TABAUNG
On mountain tops sweet nwe-cho creepers
Bloom midst other blooms
And thabye leaves and pet-sut flowers
Are once again pure bright colors.
On the Festival of Tabaung
Tharaphi and gangaw open into flower
And fragrance pervades everywhere
On Mount Popa.

Author unknown.

Mount Popa is over 4000' above see level and lies in
Central Burma near the ancient city of Bagan

ေတာင္ေတာ

ဒီကဗ်ာေလးကေတာ့ ငယ္ငယ္ ကေလးဘဝတည္းကဖတ္ဖူးခဲ့တဲ့ ကဗ်ာေလးပါ

ေတာင္ေတာ
ေတာင္ေတာရယ္သာ ၊ မာလာကငံုဖူး ၊
တစ္ပင္ကို ႏွစ္ပင္ယွက္တယ္ ၊ ေက်းငွက္ကျမဴး ။
အမည္မသိ

MOUNTAINS AND FORESTS
Ah... beautiful...
The mountains
The forests
The quivering buds
The trees caressing one another.
The birds frolicking with joy!

Author unknown.

လူကေလးေရ

လူကေလးေရ

လူကေလးရယ္ငို ခိုဖမ္းလို႔ေပး
ခိုျဖဴခိုျပာနက္ကယ္ ဖမ္းခက္လွေလး
အမည္မသိ

Lu-Ga-Lay
Oh little boy crying
I would I could
Catch you a pigeon
White, blue or black
Oh little boy
How hard it is
To catch a pigeon
White, blue or black

Author unknown.

Lu-Ga-Lay may be translated young son or little boy as the song although originally sung by those caring for small princes is now sung in the same fashion by modern mothers and fathers .

ေဆးတံတို

ေဆးတံတို

ေဆးတံတို တစ္ၫိႈေလာက္ ၊ ေရာ့ေသာက္ေတာ့ေပး
မယူလိုက္က မုိက္လို႔ထင္ ၊ ယူလိုက္ျပန္က ႀကိဳက္လို႔ထင္
ေသာက္ေစခ်င္ ကုတင္တြင္ ေထာင္ခဲ့ကြဲ႔
ၫိုႏြဲ႔ရဲ့ေလး ။ ။
(မယ္ေခြ)

SHORT PIPE
A pipe...a puff...
short as a finger...
I give you for smoking.
"If I do not take it
you will think me crude
If I accept it
you will think I like you
If you want me
to smoke it
put it near the bed,
my dear one."

Mae Khwe

Mae Khwe was the daughter of Mayor of Sittaung and she was married to a Maung Swe . When King BoDawPhaya ascended the throne in 1782.