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
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 44. She Is Far From the Land. Томас Мур.
- A prayer to the Wind by Thomas Carew
- Владимир Маяковский – Чехарда в палате… (РОСТА №881)
- Владимир Британишский – Снились двое товарищей по Салехарду
- Yew-Trees by William Wordsworth
- Омар Хайям – Когда ты для меня слепил из глины плоть
- The Kiss — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Being Underwater by Sahiti Siddharth
- Baptistry
- Алексей Толстой – Пусть тот, чья честь не без укора
- Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady poem – Alexander Pope
- Оливер Голдсмит – Опровержение логики
- I’ll go and be a Sodger by Robert Burns
- The Old Revolutionary’s Room by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Олег Бундур – Глухарь
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).
