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Friday, November 9, 2007

The Dictators

By Pablo Neruda (Chilean Poet, 1904–1973)
Neruda’s death linked him with the unrest in Chile and elevated his status even further. General Pinochet denied permission to conduct a public funeral for Neruda. In protest, thousands of shocked and saddened Chileans disobeyed the curfew and mourned in public. Neruda’s funeral became the first public protest against the military dictator.

An odor has remained among the sugarcane:
a mixture of blood and body, a penetrating
petal that brings nausea.
Between the coconut palms the graves are full
of ruined bones, of speechless death-rattles.
The delicate dictator is talking
with top hats, gold braid, and collars.
The tiny palace gleams like a watch
and the rapid laughs with gloves on
cross the corridors at times
and join the dead voices
and the blue mouths freshly buried.
The weeping cannot be seen, like a plant
whose seeds fall endlessly on the earth,
whose large blind leaves grow even without light.
Hatred has grown scale on scale,
blow on blow, in the ghastly water of the swamp,
with a snout full of ooze and silence

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Thursday, November 8, 2007

အာဏာရွင္၏ 'ဒီ' ေ၀ါဟာရ (Dictator’s D Words)

တရားမဲ့၊ သစၥာမဲ့၊ ေမတၱာမဲ့ အေတာမသတ္ ေလာဘ ေဒါသ ေမာဟ မာန္မာနေတြ ဖုံးလြမ္းေနတဲ့ ဗုိလ္သန္းေရႊ ၏ လက္စြဲ 'ဒီ' စကားလုံးမ်ား

ျမန္မာျပည္ destiny အတြက္
က်ဳပ္
diplomacy ဂရုမစုိက္
dialogue မႀကိဳက္
democracy မခုိက္
development မေတြး။

က်ဳပ္အဖုိ ့
democracy အေရး
destructive elements ေတြ
demonstrate လုပ္ရင္ေတာ့
ဘယ္သူေတြ ဘယ္ေလာက္
denounce လုပ္လုပ္
de facto အာဏာသုံးၿပီ
demonstrators ေတြကုိ
လက္မေႏွး destroy လုပ္ျပစ္မယ္။

deaths နဲ ့ detainees အေၾကာင္း
မေမးနဲ ့
ေျဗာင္ deny လုပ္ၿပီး
က်ဳပ္လုိေကာင္က
decry လုပ္ေနတဲ့ ကမၻာ့ႀကီးကုိ
အာဏာရွင္ အလုပ္ အာဏာရွင္လုပ္ေနေၾကာင္း
(dictator does/dedicates dictator’s work)
declare လုပ္

က်ဳပ္ အာဏာဆက္ေရး အတြက္
အမ်ား disapproval အေရးမလုပ္
က်ဳပ္လက္စြဲ destructive policy ျဖင့္
Let me devastate this nation all the way.


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