Poetry

[Harry Coburn]

More translations:

 

1.

tenpo pini la mi kute e toki pi jan toki,
toki pi open en pini
taso mi toki ala e open e pini.

 

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2.

kon sewi walo li tawa sewi e ma anpa e ma sewi la

mi tawa kepeken wan.
tenpo ni la mi lukin e kasi jelo mute,

poka telo, anpa kasi sewi,

tawa pona lon kon tawa.

 

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3.

tenpo ni la ma ale jo.
tenpo pini la jan sewi li jo e ijo la sina jo e ni.
jan pona wawa li jo ala e ijo la sina jo e ni.
tenpo pini la ijo e kama jo tan sina tan jan pona.
Kulupu mi li pakala tan utala.

ona mute li moli.
ona mute li lukin e sitelen pini pi ale pona lon tomo.
mi jo e jan ala.
 

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1. First stanza, part 3 of "Song of Myself" by Whitman

2. First stanza of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by Wordsworth

3. "Lay of the Last Survivor", Beowulf

 

jan Eli