Father! I am Yusif
Oh father!
My brothers neither love me
nor want me in their midst.
Oh father, they assault me,
they stone me and
with insults they shower me.
My brothers wish me dead
so they give their false eulogies.
They shut your door before me,
and from your field
I was expelled.
They poisoned my grapevines,
oh father!
When the passing breeze
jested with my hair,
they all became envious,
outraged at you and me.
What have I done to them, father,
and what loss have I caused?
Butterflies rest on my shoulder,
wheat bows toward me
and birds hover above my hands.
What then did I do wrong, father
and why me?
You’re the one who named me Yusif!
They pushed me down the well
and then they blamed the wolf.
Oh, father! The wolf is more merciful
than my brothers.
Did I wrong anyone
when I told about my dream?
Of eleven planets, I dreamt,
and of the sun and the moon
all kneeling before me.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Dust in the Eyes by Robert Frost
- The Gardener LXXVI: The Fair Was On by Rabindranath Tagore
- Perseus by Sylvia Plath
- Epigram : To Christina, Queen Of Sweden, With Cromwell’s Picture (Translation) by William Cowper
- October, 1803 by William Wordsworth
- On The Decline Of Oracles by Sylvia Plath
- Love’s Harvest poem – Alfred Austin
- Ay, workman, make me a dream, by Stephen Crane
- Michael Angelo In Reply To The Passage Upon His Staute Of Sleeping Night by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Дачный случай
- My Own Heart Let Me Have More Have Pity On; Let poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Гавриил Державин – На рождение царицы Гремиславы
- Meäry’s Smile by William Barnes
- Parnell by William Butler Yeats
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).