Category: Translation

Poem

• Poem by Saya U Nyunt Htay (Met73)
• Composed for SPZP-2012
• Published as back cover of a souvenir

Translation
by Hla Min

• One cannot forget the history and sweet memories of one’s alma mater, and one feels that most alumni — near and far — still yearn for the good old days.
  
• In front of A Hall, B Hall [C, D, E, F, Halls] friends would tease and prank, yet do no harm. They do not care to find weaknesses in others, and will remain loyal friends. In front of Uttra (North or G) Hall — usually in the evenings — aspiring Ah Nu Pyinnya Shins serenade with love songs aided by guitars, harmonicas and violins.
  
• Hear the bells in Building One, Two [Three] ringing once more. Many rush to the classrooms [some spend time on the corridors to enjoy the belles go by]. At night, some “count the numbers” (perhaps playing cards, or actually studying and doing home work).
  
• RIT students do not feel outnumbered by RASU [with Burma selected] or Eco at any kind of sports [soccer, volleyball, basketball, swimming, water polo …]. RIT has staunch loud-voiced fans [like “Ajala” Moe Hein].
  
• Assembly Hall hosted not just presentations and debates. It also is the home of Geeta See Sar [Musical Evening Extravaganza] with outstanding musicians, composers, vocalists and dancers. Swel Daw Yeik Troupe and Ah Nyeint, Pyazat, … melt our hearts.
  
• Cartoon Box [former telephone kiosk] nurtured many cartoonists to share their humor, satire and ideas with the readers searching for Sacca (Truth).
  
• Aw Bar Lann (precious memories to the graduates attending the graduation ceremony) is known not also for applause but also for the tongue-in-cheek comments and unruly claps and shouts to the unwary treading the Lann.
  
• “Nwe Aye”, “Aung Theik Pan”, “Kan Thar Ya”, “U Chit” …
  Memories from those who spend six years or more.
  
• As the examinations near, most try their best [by borrowing books and notes from their friends, by attending crash sessions] to pass the hurdle. On the desks are notes [not neat and tidy] scattered all over. Times and systems change, but most RITians are able to decide the essentials (“Ah Hnit”) from the inessentials (“Ah Kar”).
  
• Swel Daw Yeik
  One can never forget the history and [priceless] memories.

Poem by
U Aung Myaing

“အလှ”

မပြီးသေးတဲ့ ပန်းချီ

ဆက်မသိသေးတဲ့ သီချင်း
ရင်တွင်းပျောက်နေဆဲကဗျာ

နာကျင်နေဆဲ

ဝေဝါးဆဲမှာ
“ငယ်ရွာ” ကိုပြန်ပြေး
“ငယ်သွေး” ကိုပြန်တွေ့
“ငယ်ငွေ့” ကို ရှိုက်ရှူ
“ငယ်မူ” ပြန်တခဏ
ခေတ္တ အလှ မိန်းမောမိ။
ထာဝရ အလှ ဘယ်မှာရှိ။

Translation
by Hla Min

“BEAUTY “

Unfinished painting
Suspended song writing
Poem, briefly disappeared from my heart
Still anguished
Still fuzzy
(Mind) wanders back to “childhood home”
Rediscover “old flame”
Breathe again “Childhood feeling”
“Act like young self” for a while
Immersed in transient beauty
Where does permanent beauty exist?

From “Poetic Art Series”

Poem : Tekkatho Moe War

Translation : Hla Min

Illustration : Bagyee Myo Myint

Organizer : Okpo Maung Yin Maung

• Various flavors of Poem
• Kabyar (in Myanmar / Burmese)
• Poetry, Poem … (in English)
• Gatha (in Pali)
• There are websites and groups that post and/or publish Poems (in various languages) and Translations

Studies

• Studied Poems in school
• Studied Translations from books, magazines, special supplements in newspapers
• …

Sample presents

• Poems & Translations by Rev. F Lustig (Ashin Ananda)
• Collection of Kabyars by Tekkatho Moe War (Saya U Moe Aung)
• Swel Daw themed Kabyars by Tekkatho Moe War, Okpo Maung Yin Maung, Maung Nyunt Htay (Ah Htet Min Hla), Ko Toe (Myit Che), Win Myint (M72)
• Nature themed Poems : include poems by Dr. Lyn Swe Aye
• Kabyars by Ko Yin Zaw (U Jotalankara)
• Kabyars by Soe Sint (U Myo Sint)
• Minthuwun’s Kabyars with translation by his Literary Friends
• Rhyming Dictionary

My experience

• My poems and translations published in Guardian, Working People’s Daily, Forward Magazine, RIT Alumni International Newsletter …
• Translation of selected kabyars in “Poetic Art Series” (organized by U Aung Myaing and illustrated by U Myo Myint)
• Served as Panelist at 5th Irrawaddy Literary Festival in Mandalay (November 2019)

Poem : Tekkatho Moe War
Translated by Hla Min

UNESCO inscribed Myanmar’s ancient capital of Bagan as a World Heritage Site on July 6, 2019.

Saya U Moe Aung (Tekkatho Moe War) has portrayed the cultural, religious, historical and architectural heritage of Bagan.

စာေရးသူရဲ႕ ႏွလံုးေသြးမွ စီးဆင္းလာတဲ့
ႏွစ္သိမ့္ၾကည္ႏူးျခင္း ကဗ်ာ။

“ပုဂံအေမြ”

Heritage of BAGAN

ႏွလံုးေသြးရဲ႕ တဒုတ္ဒုတ္ျမည္သံ
ပုဂံေျမထဲ လြင့္ပ်ံသြား။

Rapid, incessant heart beat
racing towards the Bagan area

ႏွလံုးသားမွာစူးနစ္
အေမြအႏွစ္ဟာ ပုဂံ….။

Deeply rooted in the bottom of my heart
the cultural, religious, historical and architectural heritage of Bagan

ကမၻာ႔ ရင္သပ္႐ႈေမာ၊ အံ႔ၾသဖြယ္ၾကည္ညိဳ
ပုဂံကိုသြတ္သြင္း၊ စာရင္း၀င္ အေမြအႏွစ္
လြမ္းရစ္ေတာ့ တစ္ဖန္
ေၾသာ္…. ပုဂံရယ္….။

Fascinating, full of wonder and memories,
heart rendering, sublime Bagan
finally, rightfully inscribed as World Heritage Site
O … ancient Temple City
where I left my heart

ဟိုး အေ၀းထိ၊ လွမ္းေမွ်ာ္ၾကည့္တိုင္း
ထိ႐ွ လြမ္းေမာ၊ တေ၀ါေ၀ါ စီးဆင္း
ျမစ္မင္း ဧရာ၀တီ၊ ၀န္းလည္ ရစ္ေခြ
မႈိုင္းမိႈင္းေ၀ေ၀
ႏွလံုးသား ေၾကြက်၊ အနဂၣ ခ်စ္ျခင္း၊
ေၾသာ္….ျမစ္မင္းဧရာ၀တီရယ္….။

Every time one looks yonder
touched by the whirling, swirling,
vibrant Ayeyarwaddy (Lord of the rivers)
Misty, dreamy panoramic view
O … my dear Ayeyarwaddy

ယဥ္ေက်းမႈရဲ႕
ပန္းပု ဗိသုကာ၊ လက္ရာေထာင္ေသာင္း
ေစတီပုထိုးေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ
ကမၻာကုန္တည္သေ႐ြ႕၊ ၾကည္ေမြ႕ ႏွစ္လို
ၾကည္ညိဳ ၀ပ္တြား၊ ေပ်ာက္ပ်က္မသြားဖို႔
ထားသစၥာဉာဏ္အသိ၊ တိက် မွန္ကန္
ေၾသာ္…. ပုဂံရယ္. …။ ။
(ကမၻာ့ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈအေမြအႏွစ္အျဖစ္သတ္မွတ္ျခင္း
ခံရသည့္ ပုဂံ သို႔. ….)

Finest culture
Treasure of sculpture
Architecture galore
Countless shrines and pagodas of Pagan
Will last for eternity
as World Heritage Site
to be revered, cherished and appreciated
O … glorious Bagan

တကၠသိုလ္ မိုး၀ါ
၇-၇-၂၀၁၉
နံနက္ ၁၁:၃၀

Tekkatho Moe War (Saya U Moe Aung)
July 7, 2019
11: 30 AM