SZENTE B. LEVENTE

SZENTE B. LEVENTE

Xxx  

 (halkul)

The moans become faint

More and more faint

you know the silence

of the streets well

and are not in the mood

to tell any more

nylon and paper

are thew same in the wind

the garbage heaped

like real mountains

in your soul

you feel

a tower of everything

wich is disturbing you

and giving you pains

TRANSLATED BY ISTVAN DABI

SEER

(látó)

on a certain day

my eyes open and

I’ll see

I’ll wink only and stand up

and I’ll go

with you

to our home

TRANSLATED BY ISTVAN DABI

ALONE BEHIND THE WINDOW

From the crest of the church

doves are flying

and sparrows ?

–          none of them

for what is this good?

Already the mist is lifting

behind the gardens

all along on the frozen twigs

of the bushes

fleeing alone

amidst the houses

do you understand this?

You stood by the window

in weak light

looking at the street

whether he is coming – whom

did you wait for

you thought only over it

TRANSLATED BY ISTVAN DABI

SZENTE B. LEVENtE

SZENTE B. LEVENTE (Hungarian journalist, poet, living in Tranylvania, Roumania) was born in Dobeta, Roumania on 21.09.1972. Since 1994 he publishes continuously his poems, tales, articles in the Hungarian press of Roumania, and since 2000 also in newspapers, literary magazines in Hungary. Until now he published 4 books with poems, 3 books of tales, and also in some anthologies. His poems were published also in foreign languages. The greatest number of his poems is translated by Istvan  Dabi, translator of literature into several foreign languages. (Istvan Dabi)