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KARAYILAN (kuvayi milliye destani) -blacksnake-
1.       thehandsom
7403 posts
 28 Mar 2008 Fri 08:22 pm

.......
Atesi ve ihaneti gördük.
Dayandik,
dayandik her yanda,
dayandik Izmir'de, Aydin'da,
Adana'da dayandik,
dayandik, Urfa'da, Maras'ta, Antep'te.

Antepliler silâhsör olur,
uçan turnayi gözünden
kaçan tavsani ard ayagindan vururlar
ve arap kisraginin üstünde
taze yesil selvi gibi ince uzun dururlar.

Antep sicak,
Antep çetin yerdir.
Antepliler silâhsor olur.
Antepliler yigit kisilerdir.

Karayilan
Karayilan olmazdan önce
Antep köylüklerinde irgatti.
Belki rahatsizdi, belki rahatti,
bunu düsünmege vakit birakmiyordular,
yasiyordu bir tarla siçani gibi
ve korkakti bir tarla siçani kadar.
Yigitlik atla, silâhla, toprakla olur,
onun ati, silâhi, topragi yoktu.
Boynu yine böyle çöp gibi ince
ve böyle kocaman kafaliydi
Karayilan
Karayilan olmazdan önce.

Düsman Antep'e girince
Antepliler onu
korkusunu saklayan
bir fistik agacindan
alip indirdiler.

Altina bir at çekip
eline bir mavzer
verdiler.

Antep çetin yerdir.
Kirmizi kayalarda
yesil kertenkeleler.
Sicak bulutlar dolasir havada
ileri geri...

Düsman tutmustu tepeleri,
düsmanin topu vardi.
Antepliler düz ovada
sikismislardi.
Düsman sarapnel döküyordu,
topragi kökünden söküyordu.
Düsman tutmustu tepeleri.
Akan : Antep'in kaniydi.

Düz ovada bir gül fidaniydi
Karayilan'in
Karayilan olmazdan önceki siperi.
Bu fidan öyle küçük,
korkusu ve kafasi öyle büyüktü ki onun,
namliya tek fisek sürmeden
yatiyordu yüzükoyun.

Antep sicak,
Antep çetin yerdir.
Antepliler silâhsor olur.
Antepliler yigit kisilerdir.
Fakat düsmanin topu vardi.
Ve ne çare, kader,
düz ovayi Antepliler
düsmana birakacaklardi.

«Karayilan» olmazdan önce
umurunda degildi Karayilan'in
kiyamete dek düsmana verseler Antep'i.
Çünkü onu düsünmege alistirmadilar.
Yasadi toprakta bir tarla siçani gibi,
korkakti da bir tarla siçani kadar.

Siperi bir gül fidaniydi onun,
gül fidani dibinde yatiyordu ki yüzükoyun
ak bir tasin ardindan
kara bir yilan
çikardi kafasini.
Derisi isil isil,
gözleri atesten al,
dili çataldi.
Birden bir kursun gelip
kafasini aldi.
Hayvan devrildi kaldi.

Karayilan
Karayilan olmazdan önce
kara yilanin encâmini görünce
haykirdi avaz avaz
ömrünün ilk düsüncesini .
«Ibret al, deli gönlüm,
demir sandikta saklansan bulur seni,
ak tas ardinda kara yilani bulan ölüm.»

Ve bir tarla siçani gibi yasayip
bir tarla siçani kadar korkak olan,
firlayip atlayinca ileri
bir dehset aldi Anteplileri,
segirttiler pesince.
Düsmani tepelerde yediler.
Ve bir tarla siçani gibi yasayip
bir tarla siçani kadar korkak olana :
KARAYILAN dediler.


=====================


Fable of blacksnake**

We have seen the fire and the treachery
We have resisted.
We have holed in everywhere;
holed in Izmir*, in Aydin*,
in Adana*
We have holed in Urfa*, Maras*, Antep*.

Men from Antep make good shot.
They can shoot a flying crane from its eye,
a running rabbit from its back foot
and they look like thin, tall cypress trees
on Arabian mares.

Antep is hot.
Antep is a hard place.
Men from Antep make good shot.
Men from Antep are brave people.

Blacksnake,
Before he became blacksnake,
was a farm labourer in villages.
He was content maybe or may be not
He was not allowed to think about that
He was living like a field rat
And he was a coward like a field rat
being brave comes with horses, rifles and land
he did not have a horse or a rifle or land
he had a thin neck
and a huge head
Blacksnake,
before he became blacksnake.

When the enemy entered Antep
They took him down
from a tree,
which was sheltering his cowardice.

They gave him a horse
and a rifle.

Antep is a hard place
Sometimes,
hot air comes and goes up in the sky,
And green lizards on red rocks.

Enemy is holding the hills.
Enemy has cannons.
People of Antep got stuck on a flat land
Enemy was pouring shrapnel.
uprooting the soil.
Enemy is holding the hills
What was flowing was the blood of Antep.

The shelter of blacksnake,
Before he became blacksnake,
was a rose bush on the plain.
The bush was so tiny and
his cowardice was so great,
He was laying there on his front,
without pushing even a single bullet into his rifle.

Antep is hot
Antep is a hard place
Men from Antep make good shot
Men from Antep are brave people
But the enemy had cannons
Inevitable, faith,
They were going to leave the plain
to the enemy.

Before he became blacksnake,
Blacksnake did not care if
They gave Antep to the enemy forever.
Because, he was not allowed to think.
He lived like a field rat.
and he was a coward like a field rat.

His shelter was a rose bush
He was laying there on his front.
A black snake appeared
Behind a white rock
Its skin was shining
Had red eyes redder than fire
Its tongue was forked.
And suddenly
A bullet came from nowhere
And took its head off
And the animal fell over dead.

Blacksnake,
Before he became blacksnake,
when he saw the end of the snake,
he started to yell the first idea of his life loudly:
“take the lesson my heart
the dead, which found the black snake behind a white rock,
will find you, even if you hide in an iron box”

And when he, who lived like a field rat,
Who was a coward like a field rat,
Jumped and dashed ahead
People of Antep were struck with horror and amazement.
They followed him.
They finished the enemy on the hills
And they named him,
who lived like a field rat,
Who was a coward like a field rat,
As BLACKSNAKE.


*. Name of some cities in Turkey
**.Blacksnake: karayilan.

This is a small part from ‘kuvayi milliye destani-fable of independence war- (Nazim Hikmet)’
It is again my attempt.


2.       thehandsom
7403 posts
 22 Dec 2008 Mon 01:04 pm

I thought I was the only one translated/(attempted to translate) this.

But when I was looking if there is any translation of the poem mltm posted..I saw this:

 

THE STORY OF BLACK SNAKE

The people of Antep are fighters.
They can hit a flying crane in the eye,
a running rabbit in its hind leg.
And on their Arabian horses
they sit tall and slim as young green cypresses.

Antep is a hot
                  hard place.
The people of Antep are fighters,
the people of Antep are brave.

Black Snake
             before he became Black Snake,
worked in one of the Antep villages.
Maybe he had a good life,
                           maybe not.
(They didn´t leave him time to think about it.)
He lived like a field mouse,
scared as a field mouse.
"Bravery" comes with land, guns, and horses.
He didn´t have any horses, guns, or land.
Black Snake
had the same twig-thin neck
               and the same big head
                             before he became Black Snake...

When the heathens entered Antep,
the people of Antep
            flushed him out saklayan
                          of the pistachio tree
                                         where he´d hidden in fear.

They put a horse under him
                   and a Mauser
                                  in his hand.
Antep is a hard place.
Green lizards
                     on red rocks.
And hot clouds pacing the sky
                                     back and forth...

The heathens held the hills.
They had artillery.
The people of Antep
                    were hemmed in on the flat plain.
The heathens´ shrapnel fell like rain.
It dug up the earth by the roots.
The heathens held the hills.
The blood of Antep flowed. kanýydý.

Black Snake
took cover behind a rosebush
               before he became Black Snake.
The bush was so scrawny,
and his head so big and his fear so great,
that he lay flat on his belly
                with his gun still empty...

Antep is a hot
            hard place.
The people of Antep are fighters,
the people of Antep are brave.
But the heathens had artillery.
Nothing could be done, it was fate :
       the people of Antep would have to surrender
                                the flat plain to the heathens.

Before he became Black Snake,
                Black Snake didn´t really care
                if the heathens held Antep till doomsday.
Because he had never been taught to think.
He lived on the earth like a field mouse,
scared as a field mouse.

His cover was a rosebush.
He was lying under the rosebuch, flat on his belly,
             when behind a white rock
                          a black snake
                                    raised its head -
skin all spangled,
                   eyes fire-red,
                             tongue forked.
Suddenly a bullet
           tore off its head.
The snake collapsed.

Black Snake
       before he became Black Snake,
saw the black snake´s end
and shouted out
                   the first thought of his life :
    "Take heed, mad heart -
     Death found the black snake behind the white rock
     and will find you out even inside a steel box..."

And he who´d lived like a field mouse,
scared as a field mouse,
sprang into action.
The people of Antep were awed
                                 and quickly fell in behind him.
They made mincemeat of the heathens in the hills.
And he who´d lived like field mouse,
scared as a field mouse,
                    became "Black Snake". :

                             tr. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

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