The Rotten Apple
Mahorkat ovat loppuneet.
Pittää männä lafkaa.
Sit ku miä oon tult
lafkast kottii,
miä sytän lampin,
söön kaakkuu
ja joon kohvii.
Ono kumma,
jot lanterna ei puttoo
tuulees allaa
krintsan pinnalle.
© Yelling Rosa
2025-07-17
THIS PHOTO IS FROM WIKTIONARY
a pack of smoking makhorka
makhorka (usually uncountable, plural makhorkas)
(chiefly Russia) A coarse, strong type of tobacco (Nicotiana rustica), especially grown in Russia and Ukraine.
(Nicotiana rustica): Aztec tobacco, mapacho, wild tobacco
I have run out of mahorka.
I have to go to the store.
When I get back home,
I'll light a lamp,
eat barley bread,
and drink coffee.
Strangely, the lantern doesn't fall
onto the porch in the wind.
© Yelling Rosa
2025-07-17
Varför skulle jag frukta döden?
Jag har gjort mitt bästa,
och det har inte varit tillräckligt.
Nu är det min tid att förena mig
med det eviga tomrummet
från det jordiska tomrummet
utan att öppna ögonen.
© Yelling Rosa
2025-06-29
Here, you have four of my poems.
The sad life is entertaining us.
If it didn't that, we would be
Always deep under the ground.
The real smart things are
More cunning than our need
To fix what is not broken.
© Yelling Rosa
2018-05-07
Too much light
For the dark soul
Makes an explosion.
© Yelling Rosa
2018-07-08
Under the new bridges
Is the old story lurking:
Those who are shouting,
Don't hear.
© Yelling Rosa
2017-08-13
It's sweet to listen to music in peace
and forget about the outside world.
People often preach that each person
is the master of their own fortune.
Does the African mother
who keeps a hungry child on her lap
believe in this?
It would have been sweet to listen to music
in peace and forget the outside world,
but I can only burn the candle.
© Yelling Rosa
2017-10-17
Mitt hjärta är i oro
Mitt hjärta är i oro.
Jag vill gå till skogen
där kan jag vara mig själv,
vara i fred från människors
galenskap.
Människornas lösningar
är obehagliga
och deras öron
är döva.
© Yelling Rosa
2025-05-19
My heart is troubled.
I want to go to the forest
where I can be myself,
be at peace from the madness
of people.
People’s solutions
are unpleasant
and their ears
are deaf.
© Yelling Rosa
2025-05-19
I have attached a few new words to my Ingrian- English- Finnish dictionary. The book, in tabular format, currently contains 20 A4 pages. You can find it here.
ilmahtua, vb. |
to appear; to arrive |
ilmestyä, saapua |
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ainava, adj. |
only, sole |
ainoa |
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syntyä; vb. |
to be born; to become a new moon |
syntyä |
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istua, vb. |
(intr.), to sit; (intr.) to do time (be imprisoned) |
istua; kärsiä vankeusrangaistusta |
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kankaroittaa, vb. |
(tr.) to scold, criticise |
moittia, arvostella |
|
ikkää, adv. |
always |
aina |
|
vunukka, sb. |
grandchild |
lapsenlapsi |
|
tetretti, sb, |
notebook |
muistikirja |
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mukkaa (+ genitive) |
according to, in accordance with |
jnk mukaan |
Meidän kohtalomme on syntyä
Nia destino |
Our Destiny |
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Nia destino esas naskar. |
Our destiny is to be born. |
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Sola obligeso es apakar |
The only obligation is to appear |
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en la mondo. |
in the world. |
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La morto esas konsequo |
Death is the consequence |
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di nasko. |
of birth. |
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Ulu qua ne naskas, |
One who is not born, |
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ne mortas |
does not die. |
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© Yelling Rosa |
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