Szent Miklós

notes on pronunciation and meaning:.............................

Szent Miklós is Saint Nicholas in Hungarian

and is pronounced Sent ME-cloh-sh.

The Hungarian word, sír,

is pronounced as the English word, sheer.

It has two meanings: burial grave and to cry.

A village named after Szent Miklós sits on

the Small Plain of Hungary--near Austria. 

I came by the long way.
You stayed by the hard way.
But we came out together
to this small fertile plain
--Szent Miklós.

I would not have known you.
You would not have known me.
But we found out together
I was lost on this plain
--Szent Miklós.

Szent Miklós

Bob Komives

Boy of a past son's boy.
Girl of a past son's girl.
But of one great grand father
and his grandfather's home
--Szent Miklós.

To "sír" is to cry here
by "sír" where they lie here,
where they bore us together
from this small fertile plain
--and village.

You stayed with your village.
I came from my village.
Then we found us together
midst these flowers and stones
--and candles.

I came by the long way.
You stayed by the hard way.
Almost nothing in common,
almost no common tongue
--nor story.

We would not have known us.
Man of past daughters.
Woman of past sons.
Till now in our village,
embraced as one family.

To "sír" is to cry here
by "sír" where they lie here
in this small fertile plain
-Szent Miklós.

Bob Komives :: Fort Collins © 1998 :: Szent Miklós :: ,9813