Up with English?

an Nachuáitlis go deo

an Haváis go deo

an Navachóis go deo

  

up with Nahuatl

up with Hawaiian

up with Navajo

English still rules the world, but that’s not necessarily OK. Is it time to curb its power? 

haiku

Earrach . . .

ubh bhán agus

scáil na huibhe báine

                                        Primăvară. . .

                                        un albuș și umbra 

                                        acestuia  

                                                                                     Leagan Rómáinise: Olimpia Iacob

Bashō

The warbler

amid the bamboo shoot 

becomes a bamboo

Bashō (1644-1694)

an ceolaire

sa phéacán bambú

déantar bambú de

pjevica

sred izdanaka bambusa

postaje bambus

 Cróitis: Tomislav Maretic

Haiku: John McDonald

wunter solstice 
a pearl remuved
days growein brichter

grianstad an gheimhridh
cataracht bainte
laethanta geala chugainn

airly mornin –
the cailleach stauns
it the bingo-ha door

i moiche maidine
seanbhean ina seasamh
os comhair an halla bhiongó

i the quate
the soond
o the eucharist brekkin

ciúnas
fuaim na habhlainne naofa
á briseadh

slaw train
tae San Francisco
Kerouac . . .Kerouac . . ..Kerouac

traein mhall
go San Francisco
Kerouac  . . . Kerouac  . . . Kerouac

drien snaw –
ilka tree
a siller birk

sneachta síobtha –
an uile chrann
ina bheith gheal

peerie skwurrel
bussie-tailed –
soopin the leaves

iora rua beag –
eireaball dosach
ag scuabadh na nduilleog


blowster ower –
the maple tree's
bleck skelet

tar éis na stoirme
creatlach dhubh
na mailpe

leaves faw
ligg
wi the hameless

titeann duilleoga
luíonn leo siúd
atá gan dídean

oot frae Mass –
tentie o craw
dookin's breid i the burn

tar éis Aifrinn –
ag breathnú ar phréachán
a thumann arán sa sruth

haiku

 Crashing Waves Along the Seashore (Off the Coast, Rhode Island) (1897)

William Trost Richards 

ceol binn

seitreach chapaillíní Mhanannáin

ar maidin

sweet morning music

the neighing of Manannán's 

white horses

haiku

oighear tanaí

is deacair Nirbheána 

a bhaint amach

thin ice

to attain Nibanna

 is difficult 

Haiku by Rosenstock 

Art by Symes

Nollaig Mhór Mhaith Chugaibh

(Abanindranath Tagore)

 

nuair a rugadh Críost

nuair a rugadh Krishna

rugadh mise is tusa

when Christ was born

when Krishna was born

you and I were born

whan Christ cum hame

whan Krishna cum hame

you an me baith cum hame

Béarla na hAlban: John McDonald

நீயும் நானும் பிறந்த போது

கிறிஸ்துவும் 

கிருஷ்ணனும்

பிறந்தார்கள்!

Tamailis: Acadamh Tamailise na hÉireann

 

kada se Krist rodio 

kad se rodio Krishna

ti ja se rodismo

Cróitis: Tomislav Maretić

cuando Cristo nació

cuando Khrisna nació

tú y yo nacimos

Spáinnis: Patricia Jimenez

cînd Hristos s-a născut

cînd Krishna s-a născut

tu și eu ne-am născut

Rómáinis: Olimpia Iacob