{"id":17890,"date":"2015-07-23T16:12:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T20:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=17890"},"modified":"2015-08-06T14:20:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:20:56","slug":"wala-badali-sioni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/23\/wala-badali-sioni\/","title":{"rendered":"Wala Badali Sioni"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Nyuni ya Layali<\/strong><br \/>\nEwe nyumi ya layali<br \/>\npokea zangu salamu<br \/>\nmiye kula huwa sili<br \/>\nmenivamu muadhamu<br \/>\nkama nanga ya jabali<br \/>\nnimezidiwa ghulamu.<\/p>\n<p>Barua yangu pokea<br \/>\nuyasome yalo humu<br \/>\nyapate kukuelea<br \/>\nyakuingie timamu<br \/>\nmno tena niwilia<br \/>\nkisoma zangu salamu.<\/p>\n<p>Nijile kwako, mwandani,<br \/>\nni uswahibu napenda<br \/>\nmeambatana na ini<br \/>\nmahaba yamenikunda<br \/>\nkama nswi baharini<br \/>\nna kwangu yamenitanda.<\/p>\n<p>Wala badali sioni<br \/>\nkwa huku kutatizana<br \/>\nmetuva kote tundani<br \/>\nna pia sikumuona<br \/>\nila ni wewe changoni<br \/>\nmpenzi meambatana.<\/p>\n<p>Changoni meambatana<br \/>\nwaniumiza zumbembe<br \/>\nshamshamu meshikana<br \/>\nyamemea kama pembe<br \/>\ndirika dirika nana<br \/>\nzanifumbe zako &#8216;kombe.<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-left:20px;\"><strong>Bird of the Nights<\/strong><br \/>\nO you bird of the nights,<br \/>\nreceive my greetings.<br \/>\nI do not eat at all.<br \/>\nYou have penetrated me, proud one,<br \/>\nlike an anchor into a rock.<br \/>\nI, your slave, am conquered.<\/p>\n<p>Accept my letter,<br \/>\nread its contents,<br \/>\nso that it may be clear to you,<br \/>\nand enter your mind entirely,<br \/>\nforgive me many things again,<br \/>\nwhile reading my greetings.<\/p>\n<p>I came to you, my friend,<br \/>\nit was your friendship I needed,<br \/>\nyou embraced me round the waist.<br \/>\nLove has enveloped me<br \/>\nlike a fish by the ocean,<br \/>\nand has covered me all over.<\/p>\n<p>Nor do I see any change,<br \/>\nin this getting entangled in one another.<br \/>\nI grazed everywhere in the fruit,<br \/>\nand I have seen no other one<br \/>\nexcept you; in the belly,<br \/>\nmy lover, you embraced me.<\/p>\n<p>In the belly you embraced me,<br \/>\nyou hurt me, my lover,<br \/>\nyou held me with great strength,<br \/>\nit shone like ivory.<br \/>\nCome, come, my girl,<br \/>\nlet your lips enfold me.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;unknown Swahili author, translated by Jan Knappert in the anthology <em>Chagua la Maua, or A Choice of Flowers<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nyuni ya Layali Ewe nyumi ya layali pokea zangu salamu miye kula huwa sili menivamu muadhamu kama nanga ya jabali nimezidiwa ghulamu. Barua yangu pokea uyasome yalo humu yapate kukuelea yakuingie timamu mno tena niwilia kisoma zangu salamu. Nijile kwako, mwandani, ni uswahibu napenda meambatana na ini mahaba yamenikunda kama nswi baharini na kwangu yamenitanda. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2549,2530],"class_list":["post-17890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-poetry","tag-swahili"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->