Category: Poetry
A Sword with Bladed Perfume by A.Fawaz
A poem by Ahmad Fawaz ( Lebanon ) Translated by Sihem Hammouda (Tunisia ) On the battlefield of soul, your spectrum wages Delusive torrential raids, Your breaths fall in perfume drizzle, And with the sunbeam, the fall of smile races, My soul then is split into a hill scented with your jasmine, The heart at…
Darkness and Mist
A poem by Abdel Hakim Atiya ( Algeria ) Translated by Sihem Hammouda (Tunisia ) Darkness and Mist Darkness me overwhelmed, Mist my cities shrouded, And sorrow in all roads cloaked. A train I am, From the steam age, Inside a tunnel, blindfolded, Fumbling for gleams of sunshin Looking for thy smile , Appearing on…
Don’t shoot!
Wait Sir ! Don’t shoot ! I need to comb my tousled hair, And wash my stainy face. Oh !There is a hole in my shoe too Wait sir ! I won’t be late , I am going to wear my father’s shoes, They are as big as the gracious sky But they fit because I walk like…
ثورة عشق
.تعاتبني اذا غضبت ولا تفهم ان الرعد يدمدم اشتياقا للمطر تقف وسط الفوضى التي رسمتها في محرابك مشدوها كراهب يقرا رسائل حب لاول مرة تقرا جنوني في قلم الشفاه المكسر وقارورة العطر المراق .ولاتفهم سطور حنيني فيها .هذا ليس جنونا بل ثورة عشق يحتضر في دفتر يومياتك by arabian roses
A Fighter without arrow dedicated to Marius Mocanu
…Then they lived happily ever after. Nay, it is neither a folktale an old sailor Could tell to kindle the flame of adventure In the soul of a retired ship dimmed, Nor a sealed love letter From an enchantress to a hermit. It’s an epic about an ordinary man, Whose name will…
Do you love her ?
He happened to turn around, To see her teasing the drunk ground, With her bare toes like a spoiled child. She turned to him , and his oriental eyes Embraced hers as An expatriate embracing an old letter Smelt of his torn homeland. “Do you love her? ” She asked. “Who?” He said “The rain.”…
She and Majnoun Leila
When night falls and his madness is allayed , Towards the deserted poems she slips away. His French coat asks about her unknown destination, Whenever she travels by a French painting. And her silver earring asks the cold floor, About a lost beloved with a feverish longing, While she goes on searching In the forgotten…
Your Love Kept me Alive
It’s the love for a childless land that kept a farmer alive. It’s the love for honor that kept a wounded soldier alive. It’s the love for health that kept the sick alive. It’s the love for challenge that kept a mountaineer alive. It’s the love for hope that kept the unfortunate alive. Life has…
The storyteller
The rain her princely dance finished, And to the moist stage rainbow ascended. The young storyteller hastily unfolded His shawl then spread on the ground. The children were waiting restlessly, Like a bracelet around A Persian princess’s ivory ankle, And a hungry flame is burning inside. Tell us the story of Th seaman and the…
Casa /Home
Trate de escribir una canción de libertad. cierro mis ojos, pero lo único que veo es a una mariposa atrapada en telarañas y a una muñeca perdiendo su casa… Written by arabian roses Home I tried to write a song about freedom. I closed my eyes But all that I can see Is a butterfly…
Obsessive love
Your obsessive love is torturing me , Like a boat under the mercy Of a capricious wind. And the aroma from a tender caress, Left in my books, has opened my wounds, Like a wounded pirate Embracing the serene sand, and suffering in silence his loss. Written by arabian roses
Amor obseso
Tu amor obseso me tortura, Como barco a la merced Del viento caprichoso. Y el aroma de una caricía tierna que dejaste en mi libros abriendo mi heridas , Cual un pirata lacerado Abrazando arena serena, Sufriendo en silencio Su pérdida . Written by arabian roses
My first poem in Spanish :D Cuando llueva / When it rains
Cuando llueva Cuando llueva, escribiré tu nombre en suelo Para que viaje tu generosidad A través de las venas de tierra Regando mi tímido simiente para convertido En jazmín blanca perfumando noches tristes O en generosos arboles alimentando a los pobres Sin arrogancia y sin humillación Porque en tu nombre , habitan los secretos…
The soothsayer
She took his rough hand in hers, Passionately embraced his soft gaze, Then closed her enchanting eyes, “A thorny path is awaiting you “, The soothsayer whispered, “With rubies it is studded.” A diamond escaped her eyes . To his lips he raised her trembling hand, Kissed her palm, then reassuringly said: “A wife’s…
If…
If a beggar knocks at your towering door Smile away your scowling wrath for a genuine smile for the poor is shimmering alms. Fill his hands stained with soot, And God will purify your defiled soul , For a satisfied beggar’s prayer , is your unbreakable armour, when Soulless misfortune breaks bondage of its bitter soldiers….
The lonely scarecrow
He wanders through the breathless Battlefield of life . Above him, The scarlet sun withdraws her spears And night wraps his serene shawl Around houses’ shoulders Grand and poor. He doesn’t yield for he believes That when solemn autumn breaks Summer’s painting brushes, And winter cries, sprightly spring comes by. In the heart of the battlefield…
Healing
His love was a pact But you love me unconditionally You look into my heart While he looked into my eyes He couldn’t put up with my flaws But you show me the way to correct them You hear my long prayers While he complained about my loving talks What is to gain from a short- lived love? What is to gain…
انا تونسي شئت ام ابيت
. انا تونسي و تشهد عن ذلك خارطة ميلادي . و الارض التي تحملت خطواتي المتعثرة عندما كنت صغيرا انا تونسي عربي اجيد تكلم لغات العالم و لكني لا اكتب قصائد حبي الا بالعربية .فهي لغة موطني موطن الحب تونس انا تونسي مسلم سمعت السماء ابي و هو يؤذن في اذني .و صلوات جدتي…
War of Roses
Yesterday,I was a knight But today I am a warrior. A knight ‘s offering is a mild rose But a warrior’s offering is a wild soul. I shed my armor to shield my wounded heart And go to the battlefield of your love with one hand I drag my coffin with the other I hold my honor….
Childish pencils
He kissed his butterfly goodbye, freed his swing hanging from His grandfather’s old apple tree And embraced the wind perfumed with his grandmother’s lullaby That was watching him walking away With a prayer on her trembling lips. It’s a land where boys Chase death not dreams, It’s a land where roses Are colored with crimson…
The Mad Poetess
In a poetry book lives my prince charming Taken captive by poems. Being swept , poesy fears, Into a burning ocean of tears If he enfranchises him For his words are enamoured with His angelic eye smile, weaving it into sighs for poets every night. My wrath tore my treacherous poems asunder and my…
شاعرة مجنونة
يعيش حبيبي في ديوان شعر سجين القصائد يخاف الشعر لو حرره ان يغرق في بحر من العبرات فلقد تيمت كلماته بابتسامة عيون حبيبي فمنها تغزل كل ليلة اهات للشعراء مزق كل قصائدي غضبي واحرقت كلماتي غيرتي حبيبي هو سجيني و لن تحرسه امراة سواي حتى و لو كانت صلاتي Written by arabian roses
عندما يبتسم حبيبي
تجهم وجه حبيبي فتلون وجه السماء و تململ البحر الفضي فقد اشتاق الى دياره الزرقاء امواجي ماعادت تعرفني صاح البحرفي الم قد تجهم وجه حبيبها ثانية اجابت السماء ابتسم حبيبي ناديت فعندما لا تبتسم يضيع سحر البحر الازرق بين الغيوم تمر الايام بدون تاريخ و تصنع الشمس و المطر قوس قزح من الوان حزينة ابتسم…
الليل امراة
الليل امراة تتزين بالقمر و النجوم مراتها صفحة النهر الفضية و عطرها ندى الصبح الخجول الليل امراة تحيك وشاحها من دفء عينيك الطفوليتين و تغزل من تنهداتك الشرقية لحنا للسكون الليل امراة فوحدها المراة تعشق الرقص حافية القدمين متدثرة بجدائل شعرها وقت السحور Written by arabian roses
انا تونسية يا سيدي
انا تونسية يا سيدي على خارطتي تعيش كل النساء اعشق شرب القهوة عند المساء المعطر بالياسمين و ابتسامة امي الحنون اعشق تقبيل جبين الشجر فالشجر انيسنا في الدرب الطويل عند السفر و صيد حبات المطر لتبوح لي بسرها كي تحبني يا سيدي حب الصحراء للمطر انا تونسية يا سيدي عشقي لك كعشق الليل للنهار لا…
A truce with a pirate
You seized my merry love letters and turned them into inconsolable paper boats Then summoned seagulls and Declared yourself an emperor Of conquerable words. You stained your sculpted face with their ethereal blue dew to feel the softness of a tortured heart, to pass on to your deserted veins its sweetness, and take you to…
A woman in love
When I seize that trouble in your mild eyes My castles of joyousness collapse And I wish I were invincible billow to engulf your ships of sorrow. When your laughter caresses my restless heart My ribs turn into a lyre And my soul sings the most bewitching song ever A song of love . Your…
When he is uneven sea
Be a lulling ripple When he becomes an uneven sea. Shred his armor of sorrow. Tell the soft breeze to carry his restless ships To genie lands and trade them for Ancient arabian perfumes To turn his days into a beautiful fairy tale. Be a shining star When the sun sets. Like a fearless shooting…
The Sea Kiss
Run,run Let your toes tease the sleepy sand And unveil hidden beautiful secrets of you . Don’t be afraid to stumble The soft wind will be there To catch you, And if you fall Let the tender sea kiss away the pain . Embrace the shy sun If she casts upon you her golden spell,…
Ocean’s Confessions
Close your eyes Open your heart to the conch. She is going to tell you a secret. Hold her close to your heart The haughty sky is eavesdropping. Hold her tight to your soul She is going to tell you Epics about seamen Betrayed by mischievous waves. And wisper into your ear Names of beloved…
He’s a thief
He steals the sea’s pearls, and the earth’s gold bangles and leaves them flowers instead . He told me that people kill to grow gold, but they won’t kill each other to grow flowers. He steals the river’s joyful ripple to heal the rusty souls.He told me that nothing could rival a song sung by…
A restless thunder
The thunder was groaning. He had bad dreams, The gracious sun whispered gently to the summer breeze. But his groan became appalling. He’s summoning the wind and the rain, The clouds yawned. His beloved’s sighs, kept him restless. the sun lowered her head graciously, The earth ‘s pretty face went red , She said. She…
I’m in love
I’m in love with the wind that never gets tired of carrying my paper boats . I’m in love with the moon that sprinkles light in dark paths. I’m in love with the rain that plays for me music of life when I feel down. I’m in love with wild butterflies .They’re angels in disguise….
وأنت تعدّ فطورك
وأنت تعدّ فطورك لا تنس قوت الحمام وأنت تخوض حروبك فكّر بغيرك لا تنس من يطلبون السلام وأنت تسدّد فاتورة الماء، فكّر بغيرك من يرضعون الغمام وانت تعود إلى البيت ، بيتك ، فكّر بغيرك لا تنس شعب الخيام وأنت تنام و تحصي الكواكب ، فكّر بغيرك ثمّة من لم يجد حيّزاً للمنام وأنت…
“Mohamed ” a poem by Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish (Arabic: محمود درويش) (13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet.In his work, Palestine became a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and…
A salute to a soldier
For a man who gives his crimson love to quench a thirsty princess for freedom We bow in respect. For a man who ingraines his love poems on brown sand with his warm blood We kneel down and pray wholeheartedly. For a man who trades his rosy life for that of many ashen lives…
One last time..
One last time…
A beloved ‘s confession
It was me who stole your Queen chess piece. I hate it when you call her my inamorata, that word is mine. It was me who made your car’s four tires flat the other day ,it wasn’t the delivery boy. I didn’t want you to go to the mountains ,I had a bad dream. It…
My eternal love
My soul is sparkling with his love like a full moonNow I know that I found my true loveA love that shakes me inside like a typhoonAnd break to pieces old lovesNow I know I ’m no longer aloneHe has always been thereHow can’t I feel his presenceNow I will carry his love inside of…
I’m missing you
Remember that shooting star we used to wait for to make a wish ismissing you.Remember that old bridge under which ,we used to hide from rain is missing you .Remember that oak tree we used to engrave our names on it is missingyou .Remember that wild butterfly we used to chase is missing you .Remember…
You Are Me
Did I tell you that I love your grey eyes when you smile? They turn into a piece of moon enlightening my dark life tunnel. Did I tell you that I love it when you frown? You remind me of a tired sleepy night happy with the arrival of the dawn. Did I tell you…
Healing
His love was a pact But you love me unconditionally You look into my heart While he looked into my eyes He couldn’t put up with my flaws But you show me the way to correct them You hear my long prayers While he complains about my loving talks What’s is to gain from a short lived love What is to…
My lonely door
My pillow is complaining about my burning tears She’s longing for cool summer nights My piano is turning away my melancholic tunes He’s yearning for your cheerful music tones My mirror is asking about your boyish smile And my house corners are missing your bewitching perfume Spring lost its way to my home colours withers and ashen shadows reign And cheerful…
War of roses
Yesterday,I was a knight But today I am a warrior. A knight ‘s offering is a mild rose But a warrior’s offering is a wild soul. I shed my armor to shield my wounded heart And go to the battlefield of your love with one hand I drag my coffin with the other I hold my honor….
My childhood friend is Christian
My name is Muslim, I am the descendant of Ibraham Purity is my cloak Merciness is my law Love reigns my heart Benevolene soaks my soul Humility adorns my footsteps you might be my neighbor,or boyhood friend and a mslim respects his neighbor,honor his friend You might be Budhist ,Chritians or Hindu But we all kneel …
A Beloved’s prayers
I wish I could hunt all sweet dreams And put them under your pillow to comfort your lonely nights. I wish I could give you the Northern star To guide you in your life track. I wish I was a fairy tale so you won’t forget me wih the passage of time. I…
Migrating love
I whisper into withering flowers your name I make of every passing clouds a love messenger to you I chase moonlight to feel the touch of your face When it fells on you with migrating sparrows I send you my love poems with rain drops, I awash away your sorrows Your heart is my home Your smile is my moon Seas…
You are my fairy tale
I made of your laughters a lightning bridge to wonderland I made of your name a charm necklace around my neck. I envy your shadow because he can walk by your side I feel jealous of you mirror because she can caress your face Knights live in fairy tales but you live in my heart…
A love letter to lord
Whenever I fall down I call upon you. you come to me And help me get to my wobbling feet. Wherever I turn my anxious eyes I feel your reassuring presence Tapping on my perturbed heart. My Lord,never desert me I can’t walk that thorny road alone I need your divine guiding light….
My heart territory
You reproached me for scratching the sky Those are the love poems my heart is repleting with,and only big sky fits them so I entrusted her with them. You reproached me for disturbing sleepy stars You made a wish ,I wanted to give you a shooting star to mak it come true,that’s why I tried to wake them up. …
My missing crown
Tonight I heard the stars whispering a name. And I saw the clouds withdrawing their grey veil away from the sky’s face. And the moon is untangling her glowing silver locks The moon is not sighing tonight. Tell me why butterfly? It’s your prince birthday. My prince birthday! Then get me my pink shoes and my crown . I…
