GINO LEINEWEBER THE PROLIFIC, SOULFUL POET AND TRANSLATOR FROM HAMBURG,GERMANY.



REPUBLISHED FROM ATUNIS GALAXY POETRY

THE COTTAGE (PONDOK) – Poem by GINO LEINEWEBER (Germany)
Translated into Malay Language by Siti Ruqaiyah HASHIM
POSTED ON MARCH 16, 2020 BY AGRONSH

0 BIODATA OF GINO LEINEWEBER (Germany)

Gino Leineweber; born 1944 in Hamburg/Germany. Since 1998 active as a writer. 2003 to 2008 he used to be editor/editor in chief of the Buddhist Monthly Magazine. From 2003 to 2015 Chairman of the Writers Association Hamburg. Thereafter Honorary Chairman. Member in German Exile-P.E.N. (PEN-Center German-speaking Authors Abroad). Since 2013 President of the Three Seas Writers’ and Translators’ Council (TSWTC) based in Rhodes, Greece.

He has published poetry books in English as well as in German language and was honored with several international awards for his poetry

THE COTTAGE

He found his way into the mountains
Snow caps and all and a cottage below the peaks
It didn’t seem so far away
But vanished and reappeared
It happened again and again
He was wandering all the ups and downs
And wondering whether he might be
On a path which wasn’t as safe as he thought
Then maybe – maybe at the sunset
While the giver of life was inflaming the sky and clouds
He thought he was doomed
for painting the canvas of the mountains
Only to erase it with darkness that had fallen
from the height of the universe
Wiping out every colorful image
Bringing on cold and death
In the morning it shines again
As though there hasn’t been a night or darkness
Or even a yesterday either
He, or another self, that pretends to be him
Is on the way again into the mountains
Is meeting green, green grass and flowers in yellow and blue
Is listening to the whisper of distant falls and busy bees
Happy since there hasn’t been a word about the cottage – yet.

PONDOK

Dia menemui jalan ke gunung-ganang
Puncak bersalji dan semuanya serta pondok di bawahnya
Rasanya ia tidak berapa jauh
Tapi hilang dan nampak semula
Terjadi begitu berkali-kali
Dia merayau ke atas dan ke bawah
Dan mengagak samada
Dia di jalan yang tidak selamat seperti yang difikirkannya
Kemudian mungkin-mungkin di waktu senja
Ketika Sang Pemberi Nyawa membakar langit dan awan
Fikirnya dia telah binasa
Kerna melukis pemandangan gunung-ganang
Hanya untuk memadamnya dengan kegelapan yang menyelubungi
Dari ketinggian cakerawala
Menyapu bersih semua imej berwarna
Membawa kedinginan dan kematian.
Paginya semua bersinar semula
Seolah-olah seperti tiada malam atau kegelapan
Maupun semalam
Dia atau seseorang yang menyamar sepertinya
Menuju ke gunung sekali lagi
Bertemu kehijauan, rumput hijau dan bunga-bunga kuning dan biru
Mendengar bisikan air terjun yang jauh dan lebah-lebah yang sibuk bekerja
Gembira, kerna belum ada lagi sepatah kata pun tentang pondok-belum lagi.

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