Omatunto
Omatunto
ihmiskunnan liekki,
kun se sammuu
jäljellä on pimeä
eläinkunta
© Yelling Rosa
2025-09-30
Conscience
Conscience,
the flame of humanity,
If it goes out,
the darkness of
cockroaches
rules the world.
© Yelling Rosa
2025-09-30
Omatunto
ihmiskunnan liekki,
kun se sammuu
jäljellä on pimeä
eläinkunta
© Yelling Rosa
2025-09-30
Conscience,
the flame of humanity,
If it goes out,
the darkness of
cockroaches
rules the world.
© Yelling Rosa
2025-09-30
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
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
Ko inhimiin vanhaks tulloo
Ko inhimiin vanhaks tulloo,
silmät vässyyt väsymistä,
käet
heikoiks käyvvät.
Meeli alkaa muissois harpata.
Rakkahus
kukat valeloo,
pöllyt pyyhkii patrettiloist.
Syän ystävät
toivoo
unneen iänikkäisee.
©
Yelling Rosa
2025-02-17
When Human Grows Old
When human grows old,
Eyes grow tired
And hands become
weak.
The mind begins to wander back in time.
Love waters
the flowers,
Wipes the dust from the photographs.
The heart
wishes friends
In eternal sleep.
©
Yelling Rosa
2025-02-17
Leonardo.Ai generated the Human DNA images in this article.
Ingrian |
English |
Höö evät koole |
They are immortal |
Höö, |
They |
© Yelling Rosa |
Ingrian |
English |
Nöyrä syän |
A Humble Heart |
Nöyrä syän |
A humble heart |
© Yelling Rosa |
I wish my readers a very Merry Christmas and success in 2025. Thank you all for 2024, and I hope to continue communicating next year. Please be so kind as to listen to the popular Finnish Christmas carol sung in English here.
As always, I’ll send Christmas cards in good time so you have time to send them to your loved ones and add your wishes.
Jottai se miäki ymmärrän.
Miun pittää läätä messän kera.
Hääki tarvitsoo rakkautta
niku kaik elon olendit.
© Yelling Rosa
2024-11-19
Ingrian |
English |
Interlingua |
Jottai se miäki ymmärrän. |
Something I do understand. |
Qualcosa io comprende. |
Miun pittää läätä messän kera. |
I must talk with the forest. |
Io debe parlar con le foreste. |
Hääki tarvitsoo rakkautta |
It needs love |
Il ha besonio de amor |
niku kaik elon olendit. |
like all living creatures. |
como tote le creaturas vivente. |
© Yelling Rosa 2024-11-19 |
In 1894, L. L. Zamenhof, who was the original creator of the constructed language Esperanto, proposed a complete series of reforms to Esperanto (in other words, an Esperantido). It is notable as the only complete Esperantido to be authored by Zamenhof himself, and it was presented in response to various reforms that had been proposed by others since the language's publication in 1887. The project was eventually rejected by the language's speakers, and subsequently even by Zamenhof himself. Some of the proposed reforms were used in another constructed language, Ido, beginning in 1907.
Read the rest of this article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1894_Esperanto_reform_project
Felica Kristnasko
I've
created a free Christmas postcard in the Ido language for you.
Here is one of my verses in Ingrian and English with my drawing.
Hic es nimis calido.
Aestate pote ir ad ibi,
ubi pipere cresce.
© Yelling Rosa
2024-09-10
Käyn joen rantaa kera veen.
Koht vesi käyp ilma minnua.
Sellain ono aika inhimiselle.
See ei muuta virran liitsoja.
Neet tuulees läkäjäät
i tyynees sohisevat.
© Yelling Rosa
2024-07-26
I go along the river bank with the water.
Soon, the water flows without me.
That’s the time for the humans.
It does not change the face of the stream.
It gossips in the wind
and whispers in silence.
© Yelling Rosa
2024-07-26
Here is one of my poems in Ingrian, Finnish, and English.
Ingrian |
Finnish |
English |
Vaa yks syän |
Vain yksi sydän |
Only One Heart |
Monet ovat kirjat |
Monet ovat kirjat |
There are so many books |
nevvoja täyn, |
neuvoja täynnä, |
That guide you |
mut vaa yks |
mutta vain yksi |
But only one |
ono syän |
on sydän |
Heart |
ken tiitää |
joka tuntee |
That knows |
siun. |
sinut. |
You. |
© Yelling Rosa |
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Koko pitän
iän oon etsint sitä,
mitä en oo löytänt.
© Yelling Rosa
2024-07-10
Please browse my Ingrian -English -Finnish Word Table here
You can read more about Ingrian here
Here are the days of the week in the Ingrian language.
Ingrian |
English |
Finnish |
mantaki, sb. |
Monday |
maanantai |
tistaki, sb |
Tuesday |
tiistai |
sereta, sb. |
Wednesday |
keskiviikko |
torstaki |
Thursday |
torstai |
päätetsä, sb. |
Friday |
perjantai |
soovotta, sb. |
Saturday |
lauantai |
suntaki, sb. |
Sunday |
sunnuntai |
Wiktionary does not recognize the words mantaki (Nirvi 303), tistaki (Nirvi 588), and suntaki (Nirvi 550).
Nirvi plus a number refers to the dictionary of Ingrian dialects edited by R. E. Nirvi in 1971. Alla kuva kirjan nimilehdestä, missä on
Below is a picture of Nirvi’s dedication inscription to academician Kustaa Vilkuna.
PS If you wonder why I am using the English language here, it’s because only some people interested in Ingrian understand Finnish. On the other hand, my Russian knowledge is almost at the zero level.
I have written this poem using the Ingrian language
that my grandmother spoke. I checked the conjugations with Wiktionary. I
also looked up words from the dictionary of Ingrian dialects that I
received a week ago, edited by R. E. Nirvi in 1971.
Miun troppa on olt kivegäs.
Siks en pölkää orastuvaa surmaa.
Miä vaa sallin, jod en synny
uuelleen tähä miraa.
Tää mailma ei oo
ehtoisa sia.
© Yelling Rosa
2024-05-13
My path has been rocky.
That’s why I’m not afraid
of impending death.
I only hope I’m not born
on this planet again.
This world is not
a lovely destination.
© Yelling Rosa
2024-05-13
I have written this poem using the Ingrian language that my grandmother spoke. I checked the conjugations with Wiktionary. I also looked up words from the dictionary of Ingrian dialects that I received a week ago, edited by R. E. Nirvi in 1971.
Miä oon väsynt.
Uni ono karttant minnua.
Oon nukkunt vähä,
ku kokkoi taivaal lentää.
Oon nukkunt vähä
ku pölhö pydä hirilöijä.
Miä vaa sallin,
sto koolo tulloo
ennen ko musto
jättää.
© Yelling Rosa
2024-05-03
Why am I sad?
Why can't I do anything?
Fate has stuffed me with ideas,
But has forgotten to give me
The resources.
Now, I walk and blame myself.
How happy would I be
If I thought less and I could do
More.
© Yelling Rosa
2024-03-28
When the memories of youth’s sins
Knock at your old age heart
Don’t open the door.
The open-door policy doesn’t
Make the sins disappear
But paints black also
The wisdom of maturity.
© Yelling Rosa
2024-03-23
I saw a little
angel at the edge of the forest.
As I approached her, I saw her crying.
Without asking, she replied:
The forest no longer responds to invitations.
Flora has left this world
because its cruelty shocked her.
Soon, Fauna will be gone, too.
They go to another planet,
where the Creator brings oxygen and water,
but not people.
Why are you crying?
Isn't that a good thing?
We Guardian Angels die
together with those we protect.
We have failed in our mission.
Then we sat on the rock hand in hand
to wait for the end of this world.
I winked at the angel and asked:
"Is this going to take long"?
The girl couldn't be
without smiling.
© Yelling Rosa
2024-02-13