Angolali sair António Jacinto’nun (do Amaral Martins) dogum yildonumu (28 Eylul 1924)
Bu koca ciftlikte ekinleri yagmur degil
alin terim sular
Bu koca ciftlikte olgun kahve
kirmizi kiraz var
kanim damla damla besledi ozsularini.
Kahve kavuracak
ezilip, ogutulecek
kararacak, kararacak; irgatin kara
rengini alacak
Irgatin kara rengini!
Sakiyan kuslara sor
tasasiz, kivrilip akan irmaklara
ve icerden icerden esen ruzgara:
kim kalkar erkenden? kim yollanir tarlaya?
Kim tasir aganin tahterevanini uzun yollarda?
Urunu devsiren kimdir, parasini alan kim?
Kim yasar kokmus misir, kokmus balik ve asagilanmayla
pacavralar icin 50 anglores gundelikle
ya kim yer sopayi karsi cikinca?
On that big estate there is no rain
it’s the sweat of my brow that waters the crops:
On that big estate there is coffee ripe
and that cherry-redness
is drops of my blood turned sap.
The coffee will be roasted,
ground, and crushed,
will turn black, black with the colour of the contratado
Black with the colour of the contratado
Ask the birds that sing,
the streams in carefree wandering
and the high wind from inland:
Who gets up early? Who goes to toil?
Who is it carries on the long road
the hammock or bunch of kernels?
Who reaps and for pay gets scorn
rotten maize, rotten fish,
ragged clothes, filthy angolares
beating for fighting back?

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