Fî ân - Rumi

I felt like doing something (creation always soothes my nerves), so I surfed the web until I found a suitable poem.  By Rumi, its name is called "IF".  I used an English translation, as the native language of the poet I cannot understand. ;)  Here is where I found the poem.

I love nonrhyming poems.  The lack of need to focus on a rhyming scheme makes it possible for me to concentrate more on sentence structure and the nuances of meaning behind the work I'm translating.  Sandic poetry, when I write it, hardly ever rhymes for very similar reasons.

This poem was a bit of a challenge.  I created a pair of new words for it.

New words:

lëlétad - cage (from lëlét, to have + -ad, a suffix which does something like.. makes a random noun out of whatever it's attached to)

fédad - entrance, doorway (from féd, to go + -ad, the suffix I explained above)

Order of texts below:  Traditional - Gloss - Origin(al)

No híies tsidai today because I'm feeling lazy.  Maybe I'll add it later.

Translations:

Traditional:

Fî ân piab auniai pétesu

pa ba péhâ kawîci

ta jwrin ivin

piab otegre ân iad.

fî ân frn ba péhâ auniai

pétesa, ba neoureci, ba ankoacoi

frn tead baahl ba fédad ba ân

jéd pétesa ra.

lëena pétara ureci wî

mectka ba dinú ba ân

bal ân pa safpa jelacoi

piab pétefialër ân pémect?

ba thîâ frn lëaact pétara

pa úldi ba ara kamecti

lenara baahl ân péxfialër ân pa

lëlétad, gizabin kalëléti

a fî ân dé mead jéb pétejard

dé ba lëlétad ébian, béenú ba baahl jebé

pétesa ra frn aunia, ân

kasai pétara, maka ba jjew.

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Gloss:

If you should find your true self,

somewhere within the you that is wanting,

all the heavenly ones

will wait to help you.

If you should learn of the

you which is real- the wild one, animal-like

the whereabouts of the door to heaven

you will surely know.

You are a blessed spirit which

is a denizen of the gardens of heaven

will you then in a ruined house

allow yourself to live?

You are the bird of happiness,

residing in the miracle of existence

It's horrible if you just leave yourself

forever in a cage, chained up

But if you should escape from this place

the cage whose name is body

you will know of truth, that

you are knowledgable, the creator of life.

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Origin:

IF YOU CAN DISENTANGLE
yourself from your selfish self
all heavenly spirits
will stand ready to serve you

if you can finally hunt down
your own beastly self
you have the right
to claim Solomon's kingdom

you are that blessed soul who
belongs to the garden of paradise
is it fair to let yourself
fall apart in a shattered house

you are the bird of happiness
in the magic of existence
what a pity when you let
yourself be chained and caged

but if you can break free
from this dark prison named body
soon you will see
you are the sage and the fountain of life