Thursday, October 15, 2009

O Ferrier....(this is a translation of the famous song 'Majhi Re' from the bengali movie 'The Bong Connection')


In the waters of my first ever rains,
I floated a boat, in the frolics of boyhood.
That stream of water found its way
Into some nameless river;
It lost itself in some faraway sea.

O ferrier, o dear,
Have you seen her anywhere?
The boat I made from the pages of my innocence.

My firt gift, a canvas.

My first ever piece of verse.
The thousand dreams of my boyhood.
Have lost their way into some sea.

O ferrier....

My boat, the like of the blue above,
Floats away to the rhythms of the waves.
Lonely somewhere in the oblivions of the sea,
Following the sound of your melodies.

On a ruddy sun-baked evening,
In the waters of a
crimson sea,
Away, she
floats away,Dream-laden my paper-ferry....

O ferrier, o dear,
Have you seen her anywhere?
The float tha
t carries the dreams of my innocence.

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