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It is Marvelous to Wake Up Together (excerpt) ~ by Elizabeth Bishop, Translated to Tagalog/Filipino by Su Layug

28 Monday Oct 2013

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photo: creative commons: flickr/Douglas R Witt

 

Kamangha-mangha ang Magising nang Magkasama

 

Kamangha-mangha ang magising nang magkasama
Sa mismong sandali; kamangha-manghang pakinggan
Ang ulan na bigla na lang bubuhos sa bubungan,
Ang madama ang biglang paglinaw ng hangin
Animo’y dinaanan ng kuryente
Na nagmula sa isang hinabing itim na mga linya sa langit.
Sumasagitsit sa buong bubungan ang ulan,
At sa ilalim nito, ang magaang na pagbagsak ng mga halik.

 

It is Marvelous to Wake Up Together (excerpt)

 

It is marvellous to wake up together
At the same minute; marvellous to hear
The rain begin suddenly all over the roof,
To feel the air suddenly clear
As if electricity had passed through it
From a black mesh of wires in the sky.
All over the roof the rain hisses,
And below, the light falling of kisses.

A copy of the full text of the English original can be read here: 

http://deareditorpoems.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-previously-unpublished-elizabeth.html

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