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A Nailed Coffin - Life? English & Japanese

Coffin pounded nails
Economy of air
Survive, never complain!
No wasting any air
Be happy you still have
the freedom's scent!

With own blood
-color of love
feel free to paint
on the coffin walls
a million hearts!
a mountain, a river
a sea, the sky,
whole world! !
Keep happy, smile:
-only a coffin, could not
make you feel alone,
Right? ! ?

釘 打 た れ た 棺 桶 -　 人 生 ？

釘 を 打 た れ た 棺 桶
空 気 の 節 約
生 き 残 れ 、 不 平 を 言 わ ず に ！
わ ず か な 空 気 も 無 駄 に す る こ と な く
自 由 の 香 り を 感 じ れ る だ け
あ り が た く 思 え ！ 　
自 ら の 血 で
-愛 の 色
ど う ぞ 自 由 に お 描 き な さ い
棺 桶 の 壁 に
百 万 の 心 臓 を ！
山 、 川
海 、 空
す べ て の 世 界 を ！
ず っ と 幸 せ に 、 笑 顔 で ：
-た か が 棺 桶 な ん か で
孤 独 を 感 じ る こ と な ん て な い
そ う で し ょ う ？ ！ ？

Submitted: Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Edited: Sunday, July 15, 2012

Poet's Notes about The Poem

Japanese translation by Miyuki Kuroda.

Comments about this poem (A Nailed Coffin - Life? English & Japanese by Elena Sandu )

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  • Vinod Kumar (8/20/2011 11:29:00 AM)

    Powerful and sharp touching lines reaching each and every corner of the whole blue planet. Nice and impressive write.

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  • Original Unknown Girl (8/9/2011 7:47:00 AM)

    Hmm... I like this, the dark tone of the coffin, the analogy that someone is trapped but it is by their making perhaps? They can still paint the hearts on the inside walls of their prison? I like that, the lines of the hearts being painted, the mountain, the sea, the sky.... it is a pretty poem with a dark belly! Well Done. HG: -) x

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  • Kipper Stagg (7/9/2011 2:41:00 PM)

    I love the up-beat tempo of your poems.
    you have a very unique style, very open and free, (just like your heart!)
    if we all could all see the world through your eyes it would be such a better place to live in.
    your poems go from Strength to Strength!

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  • Rekha Mandagere (6/23/2011 1:10:00 AM)

    Deeply philosophical, well worded cry of the heart is presented here. Thought provoking poem. Thanks.

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