Dos Poesias
By Haim Vitali Sadacca
Ser Pintor o Poeta
Si yo no arivo a pintar todo lo ke veyo,
Komo puedo ser un pintor komo lo dezeyo?
Kuando veyo una lagrima en kara palida
La pena me s’esta gravando por toda la vida.
Si oyo suspiros de algunos en dezespero
Yo abatido mis ojos nuvlados sin kererlo.
Kon ke kolores puedo mis sentimientos pintarlos?
Kon ke kayentura se ariva a ekspresarlos?
Estos sentidos no puedre mostrarlos kon kolores
Los dramos, los amores, l’humanismo i dolores.
Por esto ahora kedi leshos de la pintura
Me konsolo kontamplando los sielos i natura.
Esta satisfaksyon la topi en las poezias
Ago sentir gritos mudos de dolor, todos los dias.
Ay korasones ke toman lisyones meresidas
Arebiven humanidades dezaparesidas.Konosi Una Ermoza
Era de edad de los diziocho a los vente,
Una kara linda i kon mirada inosente ,
Su avla kalma, su sonriza era diferente
Una kaminada de pasharo, boz no se siente.
Sus kaveyos sedozos, fin la taya estirados
Eran kon una brosh i kon flores dekorados.
Me bazava a las kozas ke mis ojos viya
En su enterior komo era? Yo no saviya.
Dezeyava ver otras ermozuras envizibles
I konoser sus sentimientos si eran sansibles.
La noblesa verdadera esta en la konsensya
Si tiene dezdenyo d’el prove, d’el manko de sensya.
Si su korason ve al ke esta en dezolasyon
I si le da una mano yena de konsolasyon.
Akel tiempo amare kon mi alma su luzyura
Adorare los aktos, apresyare su ermozura.
Haim Vitali Sadacca was born in 1919 in Chanakkale, Turkey, where he had his elementary schooling. As there was no secondary school in this city, in 1933 his parents sent him to Istanbul. There he studied at the Haydarpasha Lycée and two years at the Ecole Saint Benoît for French language classes. Haim Vitali Sadacca wrote poems in Turkish as a student in Istanbul, where his poetry appeared in local publications. An accountant who started his own business in 1947, Sadacca retired in 1990 to be near his children, one of whom lives in New York and the other in Canada. Since then, he and his wife, Janet, reside six months of the year in Montreal, and the remainder in Florida and Istanbul. Now, his passion is to paint, and write poetry, expressing his thoughts and emotions in Ladino, his beloved ancestral language. He is the author of Un Ramo de poemas (New York: FASSAC, 2009), which in a song version was awarded first prize at the 2008 Festiladino festival of Ladino songs in Jerusalem, set to music by Renata Sibel Yolak of Istanbul. - See more here. These two poems will be published in his forthcoming second volume of poetry.