Singularity - Tibor Babiczky

When you step forth as
yourself, in full armour,
with each step making
the caverns of the subconscious
collapse, and all wisdom shrinks back.

Root - Miklós Radnóti

Power flashes unseen through the root
That drinks rain, feeds on earth below;
And its dream is white as snow.

I love you - Lörinc Szabó

I love you, I love you, I reach for you
All day I look for you, seek for you
All day when you’re gone I’m in tears for you

There was a beauty - Attila József

There was a beauty. There was sweetness.
I contemplated
a delicate rose.
And reality smashed down on me
like a loose boulder.

Nihil - Frigyes Karinthy

Recitative

 

As a last act, I visited my former lover

And we had a conversation in the stairwell:

We went inside as the wind was savage

And heavy drops were falling.

 

Shy Request - Csokonai Vitéz Mihály

Mighty love's consuming fire

Has most deeply scorched my soul.

Cooling balm for hot desire,

Gracious tulip, make me whole.

Daniel’s song - Mihaly Babits

Despite all Thou hast remembered me, God,

and Thou hast found all those who have long been

in search of Thee and all those who love Thee.

God Speaks to Man - Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

I speak to you.

Be still

Know

I am

God.

Soldiers’ song - Bálint Balassi

Soldiers, what finer worth

Is there upon this earth

Than the borderlands can show?

Like someone - Ágnes Nemes Nagy

Like someone who came with a message from far away

and then forgot it completely

Omega - Tibor Babiczky

Street lamps on the closing curve,

off-white silk skirts

swish. It’s midnight.

On the shore - Sándor Kányádi

The band's drum out-thumps the sea,

neon outshines all the stars;

Pan's Pub - Tibor Babiczky

Everything must be paid for, I reflected,

as we sat beneath

an impossibly yellow sunshade,

not waiting for anything in particular,

we just sat, it was a pleasant and enjoyable

The Empty Sky - Ágnes Nemes Nagy

The empty sky. The empty sky.

I can't tell what might satisfy.

Poison - Kinga Fabó

I don’t know what it is but very ill-

intended. Surely a woman must belong to it.

And something like a laughter.

Confidence - Max Nordau

Said the State to the prelate your pay we will withhold.
Smiled the priest in reply, I scorn your pow’er and gold,

Credo - Romain Rolland and Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

We believe that our most precious possession is Life.
We believe we shall mobilize all the forces of Life against the forces of death.

Fake - N. Ullrich Katalin

Fake-flowers in fake-soil,
fake-world with fake-lawn.

With a pure heart - Attila József

Without father without mother
without God or homeland either
without crib or coffin-cover
without kisses or a lover

Forced March - Miklós Radnóti

Crazy.  He stumbles, flops, gets up,            and trudges on again.
He moves his ankles and his knees            like one wandering pain,
then sallies forth, as if a wing            lifted him where he went,