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The Famous Poem ‘Trees’ in Tagalog

Tulang Ingles na isinalin sa wikang Tagalog

Rufino Alejandro’s Tagalog translation of Joyce Kilmer’s famous English poem “Trees”

Punungkahoy

Sa aking palagay ay hindi na ako makakakita pa

Ng tulang sindikit nitong punungkahoy na kaaya-aya

Bibig na dayukdok di ibig alisin sa pagkakadikit

Sa dibdib ng lupang ang daloy ng buhay, walang kasingtamis

Sa buong maghapon, sa mukha ng Diyos lamang nakatingin

Ang dahunang bisig ay nangakataas sa pananalangin

Kung nagtatag-init, ang malagong buhok ay nahihiyasan

Ng pugad ng ibong pugad din ng tuwa at kaligayahan

Sa kanyang kandungan, ang kabusilaka’y doon umiidlip

Sa buhos ng ulan ay magkarayamang nakikipagtalik

Tula’y nagagawa ng mga gaya kong mulala at hangal,

Mga punungkahoy, ang nakagagawa’y tanging Diyos lamang.

– salin ni Rufino Alejandro

Trees

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the sweet earth’s flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

– by Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918)

Posted onCategoriesSONG & POEM TRANSLATION, TAGALOG POEMS

One thought on “The Famous Poem ‘Trees’ in Tagalog”

SHILLA J. KADUSALEsays:

November 8, 2018 at 8:50 pm

what does it mean?

He dwelt among “apartments let,”

About five stories high;

A man I thought that none would get,

And very few would try.

A boulder, by a larger stone

Half hidden in the mud,

Fair as a man when only one

Is in the neighborhood.

He lived unknown, and few could tell

When Jacob was not free;

But he has got a wife,—and O!

The difference to me!

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