Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:43 pm

Bashkoj
mallkimin tim me tëndin, o nënë,
për ata të mallkuarit,
që ndezën ajrin,
që derdhin flakë të ndezura
dhe hi po lënë përrreth.

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:45 pm

JOTA FOTIADHI- BALLAFUTI

With the white birds of the sky

Translated in Albanian: Kristaq F. Shabani I.W.A, W.P.S

Kosta Gaxhoni W.P.S

Translated in English: Dritan Kardhashi

1912

With her dogs and a pistol in her waist, she protected her honor and pastured sheep’s flock. A very beautiful shepherdess, wearing the clothes of Kallamata “wandered” at the hills of Sanandrea. Macedonian fighters of the family, males, 12 years in war of the year 1912.

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:45 pm

When they were liberated and returned, they married her to a sergeant of theirs. Tufts in the tips of his moccasins, the white pleated kilt revived his friskiness and they built up a house at Staja.

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:47 pm

Her house surrounded by greenery, built with grey – green stones in the plateau of Çuka. It was surrounded by the perennial trees from oaks, beeches, velanidhe.

Her houses, in the plateau of Çuka surrounded by the greenery of the trees, were built with the grey-green stones. The perennial trees such as: oaks, beeches, velanidhe surrounded it. The workers relaxed under their freshness. Laughing, jokes, and funny expressions and the chirping of birds, joys and fairs, sweetened their bitter lives caused by shortages. Cold waters ran noisy, in the plateaus of Çuka they merged down, at the torrent with their river, BISTRICA. And the families with children, brides and nephews increased. And each of them had their place in the church, when they assembled on Sundays or in times of celebrations.

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:47 pm

1940

In Albania they fought and wore in black. In occupation no German stepped in their place. 6 tradesmen came to them in the village, Hari and his friends delivered zematura* (*a boiled bread). And it was the liberator Captain, who extended and based his brave men, all of them together; hand in hand they fought and enjoyed their freedom.

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:48 pm

1947.

Like a breath of wind, the civil war came and they lost their son and daughter. And they put their anger and opposed God. They thought to surrender their soul to the Devil; their uncontrollable pain was a pinch from a poisonous viper. The old man was the first to give up, who did not bear and the old woman remained to fill with mourns their plateaus, that the wind took along and send them to the peaks of Sarandena with remaining hardened stone pits similar to the escort group from the groom’s family and roared beyond in Vardhusia at Veluqi.

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:48 pm

The word

*When at nights the cuckoo stands

huddled up on the chimney

and a capricious song begins,

my heart becomes like a stone waiting

for the bad news.

When in our 100 year farmland the goldfinch sings

its pleasant song with a sweet voice,

my heart flies to have news from you,

the good news.

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:49 pm

*To what genie should I send a red apple,

a quince full of sweet juice

and the multicolored viper Jordan;

to what dragon should I send little lambs

for lunch and desert,

to hold you in my breast?

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:49 pm

It is an unbearable weight in these hard years
that can not be lifted,
as if I had all the weight of the earth
upon my shoulders.
I take courage,
I hold myself tight,
I clutch my nineties,
and stubbornly I keep on living,
waiting.
I wait to have news from you,
good or bad news, my only daughter,
the red poppy with 24 Aprils;
I have lost you in the brother’s fight.
Inside the red pomegranate,
I have seen you in the street,
untilyou have remained a red mark.

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:50 pm

*I used to put an evil eye to you

and boasted with pride…

since that time I have never seen you,

o angelic joy.

Did I, your mother,

put the evil eye on you,

or such are the destinies written

in the forehead?

I welcomed them twofold

in the cradle,

nuts with honey three days

and three nights,

they write your root

to have the joys of the heavens,

the fortunes of the entire world.

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:50 pm

*You were born in a shining day,
your first cry joined the ringing
of the church bell
and they echoed beyond the hills.
Resurrection in the middle of the heart
and we have called you Anastasia,
our first daughter.

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:50 pm

For 40 days I did not uncover your face

that the skies might not see you

and put the evil eye on you.

Neither the sun’s face

because it was your sun.

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:51 pm

You became stronger among joys

and songs.

Like the arrow – shaped swallows fly the words

from your lips;

the nightingales remain silent

listening to your song…

Every spring,

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:51 pm

like I look at our flourished cherry tree,

unintentionally I look at you,

your noble curly white hair.

An unimportant cherry

“an inner part of yourbody” were you

and now the misery of how

have you become

and how you would be,

which genie welcomed you

in a bridge of rope,

what magicians with their spells

should I send to bring

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:52 pm

you back to me,
a great and uncontrollable worry
disturbs me.
We do not celebrate Easters
since then.
The hands did not hold the Eastern eggs,
neither the Eastern doughs,
tightened – embraced with red eggs
the table is not decorated.
I did not loose my house
until the present;
it remained dyed with lime
by your golden hands.

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:52 pm

In black did it wear
and waits, white as it is,
both me and you to laugh again.

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:52 pm

The arrow remains nailed in the loom,

our opened,

frightened windows.

Our small spring in the crossway runs,

the same crystalline water day

and night,

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:53 pm

singing the songs

we used to sing together.

And the same water runs fast

in the river,

but your face loses.

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:53 pm

The agility strikes at its bank

and whitens our dresses.

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:53 pm

*You who keep your mouths shut, tell me:
” Why don’t you speak?”
Does she sleep with cherubs in Hell?
Should I send her a veil,
and a pair of golden shoes
that the Seville orange might dance?
A golden crowned kerchief
I wave in order to go
and find her.

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:54 pm

I do not want to die
before I perform my obligation.
Let my precious daughter taste
the last layer of baklava.

Why do you keep me in this life?

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:54 pm

*Tell me to congratulate you perhaps

she has gone crazy,

to congratulate you perhaps her logics

has distracted to persuade

her brothers to fight.

All the magic I made in order

that her mind illuminates,

to see her brothers unite,

eat and drink.

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:54 pm

I slaughtered the hen which cackled

and I clustered my hair

in order that I might not imagine dreams.

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:55 pm

And here you are, we both imaagine
and I cry night and day.
Where, and had I known,
poor me,
my arms would have turned

Titulli: Re: Jota Fotiadhu-Ballafuti flet shqip Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:55 pm

into iron pinchers to keep you imprisoned,
than to boast with you
as you walk shaking your waist.
I wouldn’t have taken my eyes
away from you.
As if the oaks,
pines and beeches full
of branches envied you
and kept your beauty?
There at our mountains
with the fogy plateaus,

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