Trees of a Dreary Autumn
Trees of a Dreary Autumn
Arabic poem by: Saad Yassin Yousuf*
Translated into English by:
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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At a light
Said to be "dawn" We got to the shoulder of the Sea book;
Our wrecked boats were floating
As wood stained by bloody waves,
Heads of children slaughtered
By the voracity of a false
Prophet, Eyes yearning farther than the kingdom of light,
Wooden pencils robbed of their sun color,
Withered flowers,
Pictures of palm trees, standing
Drunk on the cliff, waving to other banks,
Butterflies that lost their color of light,
Remains of time,
Cut-off- ears and marks of defeat.
A beach shoulder crying over the nests of its seagulls
Mumbled:" A cheap spring
Is what the miracle doves
Have paid their throats a price for its singing!!! “
I loosened the ties for my steps,
But I stood as if pinned to the ground;
I tossed away the moment, in which I bereaved my sea,
And went on flirting with
The fuzz of my dreariness.
The couriers of death,
Still in haze black jackets,
Raised a mast stained with clay mixed in
Oil of desires;
It’s a spring chocked with the blood of flowers,
Smoke of the lost horizon,
Pirates and autumn
Branded with palms
Stained by the blood of a grassy dream
Beneath a cloud of straw
And ashes......
And
Trees
The sap rising in it stopped to green and give colors
To the branches of dreariness.
Oh! How reckoning troubled us
With all that comes with it;
The jars in its coffers
Are full of
Forgotten pains,
Fear of the moment,
Broken wings,
Songs shattered in the voice
Of reed pipes trying to play it,
And days of spring
That turned into
Trees of a dreary autumn.
***
Translation by:
Em. Prof. Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
USA
March 6, 2013
* Saad Yassin Yousuf is a poet from Iraq
Link t0 the original poem In Arabic : http://www.alnoor.se/article.asp?id=204317
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