Canción del naranjo seco / Federico García Lorca

CANCIÓN DEL NARANJO SECO

(A Carmen Morales)

Leñador.
Córtame la sombra.
Líbrame del suplicio
de verme sin toronjas.

¿Por qué nací entre espejos?
El día me da vueltas.
Y la noche me copia
en todas sus estrellas.

Quiero vivir sin verme.
Y hormigas y vilanos,
soñaré que son mis
hojas y mis pájaros.

Leñador.
Córtame la sombra.
Líbrame del suplicio
de verme sin toronjas.

Federico García Lorca

Canciones para terminar - (Canciones 1921-1924)





SONG OF THE BARREN ORANGE TREE

Woodcutter.
Cut my shadow from me.
Free me from the torment
of seeing myself without fruit.

Why was I born among mirrors?
The day walks in circles around me,
and the night copies me
in all its stars.

I want to live without seeing myself,
and I will dream that ants
and thistleburrs are my
leaves and my birds.

Woodcutter.
Cut my shadow from me.
Free me from the torment
of seeing myself without fruit.

Federico García Lorca

Translated by W.S. Merwin





SONG OF THE BARREN ORANGE TREE

Woodcutter.
Cut out my shadow.
Free me from the torture
of seeing myself fruitless.

Why was I born among mirrors?
The daylight revolves around me.
And the night herself repeats me
in all her constellations.

I want to live not seeing self.
I shall dream the husks and insects
change inside my dreaming
into my birds and foilage.

Woodcutter.
Cut out my shadow.
Free me from the torture
of seeing myself fruitless.

Federico García Lorca





KURUMUŞ PORTAKAL AĞACININ TÜRKÜSÜ

Oduncu.
Kes gölgemi benim.
Kurtar beni işkencesinden
kısırlığımı seyretmenin.

Neden doğdun çepçevre aynalarla?
Gün dolanır durur etrafımda.
Ve gece yeniden yaratır beni
her bir yıldızında.

Yaşamak istiyorum görmeden kendimi.
Ve göreceğim düşünü
yapraklarım, kuşlarım olmuş
karıncaların atmacaların.

Oduncu.
Kes gölgemi benim.
Kurtar beni işkencesinden
kısırlığımı seyretmenin.

Federico García Lorca

Çeviri : Erdal Alova

Trees on the water, 1918, by Léon Spilliaert. Belgian (1881 - 1946)