ဇါတ္လမ္း ( သစၥာနီ )

ကၽြန္ေတာ့္မွာ ပန္းသီးတစ္လံုးရွိတယ္
အဲ့ဒီပန္းသီးအတြက္ ငွက္တစ္ေကာင္ရွိတယ္
အဲ့ဒီငွက္အတြက္ ေတာင္ပံတစ္စံုရွိတယ္
အဲ့ဒီေတာင္ပံတစ္စံုအတြက္ ေလွာင္အိမ္တစ္လံုးရွိတယ္။


ကၽႊန္ေတာ့္မွာ စကၠဴျဖဴတစ္ရြက္ရွိတယ္
အဲဒီစကၠဴအတြက္ ကဗ်ာတစ္ပုဒ္ရွိတယ္
အဲဒီကဗ်ာအတြက္ စကားလံုးတစ္ရာရွိတယ္
အဲဒီစကားလံုးတစ္ရာအတြက္ ဦးေခါင္းတစ္လံုးရွိတယ္။


စကားလံုးေတြကို အေတာင္ပံတပ္ေပးလိုက္တဲ့အခါ
ငွက္တေကာင္ဟာ ဦးေခါင္းထဲကိုဝင္သြားေတာ့တယ္။
စားပြဲေပၚမွာ…
ဘာမွေရးမထားတဲ့ ပန္းသီးနဲ႔
တကိုက္ကိုက္ထားတဲ့ စကၠဴတစ္ရြက္သာ
က်န္ေနခဲ့ေလရဲ့။

သစၥာနီ (English For All ဂ်ာနယ္ ၂၀၀၀)

Story

I have an apple.
For that apple, there is a bird.
For that bird, there is a pair of wings.
For that pair of wings, there is a cage.


I have a sheet of white paper.
For that paper, there is a poem.
For that poem, there are one hundred words.
For those one hundred words, there is a head.


When the words are given wings
A bird flies straight into the head.
On the table are left only
An apple on which nothing is written
And a sheet of paper with a chunk bitten off.

Thitsar Ni  ( “English for All” journal – 2000)
Trans ; Zeyar Lin

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