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
- Юнна Мориц – Античная картина
- The Street Sounds to the Soldiers’ Tread poem – A. E. Housman
- Hey birds by Raj Arumugam
- Astrophel and Stella: XLI by Sir Philip Sidney
- let’s love the lawn by Raj Arumugam
- Алексей Жемчужников – Воспоминание в деревне о Петербурге
- Love In Autumn by Sara Teasdale
- Ghazal of Rumi by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Book Leaf by Shaunna Harper
- Epitaph for Mr. Gabriel Richardson, Brewer by Robert Burns
- Владимир Костров – Выходец из волости лесистой
- Ок Мельникова – Всё будет
- The Moon is a Painter by Vachel Lindsay
- Николай Некрасов – Вор
- A Father’s Hands by Scott Ransopher
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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).
