Hunger juices
Living to eat or eating to live,
Hobby, habit or need ?
Money matters or personal,
While rich were obese,
Poor kids anorexic.
Royal cheese and creamy daal,
Tandoor is red hot,
Crisp chapatis and pickle,
Saliva fills mouth,
Nasal buds get taste,
Delicious,
Wow !
Dream shatters as eyes open,
Saliva drools into the eyes,
The kids sleep in hunger again !
Written July 20th, 2015
For Debbie's contest
Second verse is an epulaeryu.....
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Biography of A Dream
Arabic Poem by: Abdulsadah Al-Basri
Translated into English by:
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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At...
The end of the first decade
Of the twentieth century
The sun bathed in my father’s eyes
He kept flirting with her
And flirting..
to draw a dream on her silken rays
A dream accompanied him all his life.
In the fourth decade
He got married
To build a nest in the heart of the countryside,
Then begot a little bird
Two
And three
Taught them how to fly with love
Over the waves of the river
And how to long for the bread
Baked in the outdoors tandoor
But ..
In the eighth decade of the same century
He departed overwhelmed by grief
Over a dream
That would never come true
Never
Never
Never!!!
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Translated into English by: Em. Prof. Inaam Al-Hashimi
* Abdulsadah Al-Basri is a poet from Iraq
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