A Woman Made of Dew
A Woman Made of Dew
Arabic Poem By: Falah Al-Shabender*
Translated into English By
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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From the vastness of my heart,
My thought, the embers of my blood,
And the child in me,
That is a child bigger than me,
comes love,
As pastoral personas gather with the wind and rain.
O you, the good spontaneous one!
From here is the passage;
A floating feather is the twilight
opening windows of light
for doves
driven to the uttermost flight;
And from the arrogance of wishful thinking
Stems a big,
Very big,
Dream!
O my paper kite!
You, the good spontaneous one!
From here is the passage;
Water,
In any tension within a hard rock,
Is a being aspires for a free herb;
Weep ...... in order to be!
From here is the passage;
She is a woman made of dew
Trickling into silence as dew,
Light seeping through a drop of dew,
Clear sky pouring dew,
She’s that too!
But my thirst is,
A couple of lips
or closer to the dew!
From here is the passage,
O moment of fragrance...
Like a little bird
The twilight slips away
And I get bewildered…
She passes through me;
Her shirt tackles the wind intimately;
The most delectable thing in it
is ..
The secret,
The fruit suspended in it,
And we picked it, a rendezvous!
The words sweat;
Only if they could be the open arms
To gather her shyness;
Oh, how I desire your shyness!
As she fidgeted, hiding inside her ring...
A circle within a circle..
She portrayed her hand a cup,
She saw what she saw, and thus yielded.
In ecstasy, I close my eyes,
Your face is my first surprise.
O my dream of the first time,
My lady...
Forgive my delusion, my insanity, and this haughtiness;
Your eyes are the impossible,
I love you all that should be,
And despite all of that could be;
Like the Sun,
And like freedom,
I turn, and she turns;
Tightened to break loose,
I breathe her,
Seek the silk of her nakedness,
And overly indulge in kissing;
She knows this is my triumph,
A gap she realizes, as an enduring wound,
Seeking the calm of goodness in my touch.
I turn and she turns,
Wrapped in my haze,
The wretch’s fair maiden
Sighs on my bosom and whispers softly:
Oh, how horribly handsom is my prince!
Grant me hunger,
And all the Love!
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Translated by:
Em. Prof. Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
USA
February 21, 2010
Revised: July 4, 2012
*Falah Al-Shabender is a poet from Iraq
Original text in Arabic: http://www.alnoor.se/article.asp?id=159735
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