Farewell
lest the cells of feelings die
as this moon
will go away
leaving me
for the beasts of the dark
and I’ve woven for him
from the hymns of my heart
love scarves
that the wind flung on the roads
tattered and bleeding
*****
Farewell
for my path is long…
long
Its end is the peak of the impossible
And standing here
under the midday sun
will turn me into
a mass of ash
And I must sit in the shadow…
of a straw
to keep in myself some sense
equal to a straw
*****
Farewell
that I may find me a companion
to sell him
what’s been left
of the legends of an old love
in return for a whisper
a smile
a word
a glance
laugh
any price
1970
(Translated by Nizar Sartawi)
(Translated from Arabic by Nizar Sartawi)
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood
- Not out of the running by Margaret Marie Hubbard
- The Music O’ The Dead by William Barnes
- Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Salutation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Британишский – Матери моей
- Water Music by Robert Creeley
- To a Lady with an Unruly and Ill-mannered Dog Who Bit several Persons of Importance by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Love’s Fitfulness poem – Alfred Austin
- After a Tempest by William Cullen Bryant
- Epigram on Miss Davies by Robert Burns
- You are coming! by Preeth Nambiar
- Prelude: The Troops by Siegfried Sassoon
- Огюст Барбье – Лев
- Ad Martialem by Robert Louis Stevenson
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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).
