It's simple


It's simple		1961
updated: 2006-03-10 07:46:00

		original: Pur şi simplu
		translation: Weiter nichts als das	Author: Warkentin Johann - translator
		translation: It's simple	Author: Zheleznova Irina - translator
		translation: Просто-напросто	Author: Covalgi Chiril - writer, translator
		translation: Просто-напросто	Author: Zasenco Petro

IT'S SIMPLE

It's simple. The wheat is ripe
and its golden swells ripple and roll
in the breath of a balmy day
when the wind's motherly fingers
caress the crowns of the hills.

It's simple. The spirit of day dances
in the trembling arms of the haze,
its weird contortions part of summer's mythology
when the combines flit between earth and sky
in the gleaming splinters of sun.

The measure of time is exact:
day stretches out into evening and past it,
merging with night's blue coolness
and dawn's awakening.

The language of life is exact:
listen to it in an hour of rapture,
your hands touching the fluttering pennants
of new-born crops.

There is faith universal in the certitude of peace
when it is gained for the sake of that which is reaped,
threshed and winnowed and made into bread.

It's simple. You meet a man in the field,
one whose name you don't know,
and you tell him: "Good luck!"
and he thanks you in answer.
On this grateful soil
he stands like a master,
and as the wheat billows round him,
its ears bowing humbly like so many pilgrims,
he lifts his hand to his brow
and wipes away the tiny, sparkling beads
of honest sweat.

Translated by Irina Zheleznova

Published:

Author	Book name	Publisher	Year	Page	Remark
Andrei Lupan	Legea găzduirii	Editura "Cartea moldovenească", Chişinău	1966	16
Andrei Lupan	Versuri	Editura "Cartea moldovenească", Chişinău	1967	138
Andrei Lupan	Legea găzduirii	Editura "Cartea moldovenească", Chişinău	1969	16
Andrei Lupan	Noşa svoia	Editura "Cartea moldovenească", Chişinău	1970	239	(trad. C.Covalgi)
Andrei Lupan	Scrieri v.1	Editura "Cartea moldovenească", Chişinău	1973	319
Andrei Lupan	Noşa svoia	Editura "Hudojestvennaia literatura", Moscova	1975	236	(trad. C.Covalgi)
Andrei Lupan	Magistrale	Editura "Cartea moldovenească", Chişinău	1976	23
Andrei Lupan	Maghistrali	Editura "Sovetskii pisateli", Moscova	1977	24	(trad. C.Covalgi)
Andrei Lupan	Versuri/stihi	Editura "Literatura artistică", Chişinău	1982	140
Andrei Lupan	Poezii	Editura "Literatura artistică", Chişinău	1985	187
Andrei Lupan	Frate al pământului	Editura "Literatura artistică", Chişinău	1986	341
Andrei Lupan	Dobrii znak	Editura "Radianskii pismenik", Kiev	1987	67	(trad. Petro Zasenco)
Andrei Lupan	Izbrannoe	Editura "Hudojestvennaia literatura", Moscova	1987	219	(trad. C.Covalgi)
Andrei Lupan	Scrieri v.1	Editura "Cartea moldovenească", Chişinău	2002	264
Andrei Lupan	Intrare în baladă	Editura "Cartea moldovenească", Chişinău	2007	146

Printed:

Journal	Date
revista "Nistru", Chişinău	1961
Ziarul "Literaturnaia Rossia", Moscova	21.08.1964
Săptămânalul "Gazeta literară", USR, Bucureşti	05.11.1964
Revista "Sovetskaia literatura", Moscova	04.1972