Emel Kiliç

Vũ Việt Hùng dịch từ tiếng Anh

 

 

 

 

 

 Poet translator Emel Kilic

 

 

NHỮNG LOÀI CÂY, CHÂN TRỜI VÀ NGÔI NHÀ

 

 

Khách bộ hành nhìn về phía con đường.

Họ nhìn về phía những loài cây, chân trời, ngôi nhà, chiếc xe….

Tôi nhìn về phía con đường,

Cái cách nó trở thành ý nghĩ,

Nó trở thành một ý tưởng

Nó trở thành một ước mơ

Nó trở thành một cơn bão.

Nó trở thành một nỗi lo.

Nó ở giữa hi vọng và thất vọng.

Nó hoá thành sự thèm khát và mùi hương như củ hành trong miệng.

 

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Con đường nhìn vào tôi,

Và cả những ngôi nhà, phương tiện, loài cây và chân trời.

Và rồi tôi sẽ được yêu

Tôi đang yêu,

Tôi sống lại.

 

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Chúng bước đi, và tôi cũng bước di

Xung lượng giữa chúng tôi tăng dần,

Con đường giờ chia làm hai ngả.

 

 

 

 

 

TREES POLES HOUSES

 

 

Passengers look at the road.

They look at trees, poles, houses, cars ...

I look at the road,

The way it becomes thought,

It becomes an idea

It becomes a dream

It becomes a storm.

It becomes a worry.

It's between hope and despair.

It becomes starvation and smells like onion in the mouth.

 

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The road looks at me,

So do houses, vehicles, trees and poles.

I become hope and I become a beginning  again.

Then I'd be love,

I'm in love,

I am alive.

 

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They walk away, I walk away.

The momentum between us increases,

The road  becomes now two paths.

 

 

 

 

 

NGÔN NGỮ CỦA CÁC LOÀI CHIM

 

 

Tôi lắng nghe những loài chim

Khi bạn còn say giấc

Tôi không ngần ngại bốn đến năm lần trong buổi sáng.

Tôi ôm bạn

Tâm hồn của tôi.

 

 

 

 

 

BIRDS LANGUAGE

 

 

I listened to the birds

While you were asleep

I didn't mind four or five in the morning.

I hugged you

My soul.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About Emel Kiliç

 

She was born in Istanbul in 1984, finished master studies about adult education at the Free University of Brussels and early childhood education at the Marmara University. During and after her studies, she worked as an education journalist, editor and as a pre-school teacher.

 

Furthermore, she presented radio programs about higher education and about children and their families. She wrote articles about education in Bianet, Cumhuriyet Daily Newspaper and Binfikir… (2005-2016). She wrote a children’s book called ‘Lastik Cocuk’ (Elastic Child) and a poem’s book called ‘çay, kahve ve delilik üzerine’ (about thee, coffee and madness).

 

At the age of 26, she went to live in Belgium, learned Dutch and studied social and cultural adult education at the VUB in Brussels. She went through the entire Belgian integration process and because of her interest about integration and the multicultural society, she wrote her master thesis about highly educated migrants in the adult education and their integration process in Flanders.

 

On top of the above, she was a member of the VLOR between 2012-2017 (The Flemish Education Council) and she was a volunteer for some projects about education.

 

Emel continues writing, continues her research in a PHD and maintains a forum she created for highly educated migrants, to empower and enlarge their social network.

 

Her web-site: www.emelkilic.blogspot.com

 

The links to reach to some articles from her:

 

http://m.bianet.org/yazar/emel-kilic?sec=bianet

 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emel_Kilic2