Beautiful poem A poet’s country by Hassan Daras translated by Hassan Mujtaba and Muhammad Hanif a poet’s country his eyes he sits on land and yearns for sea he scribbles words and gets angry doesn’t know what he really wants always goes back to his village believes that in those distant narrow streets life is still good moonlight still on the marble graves thinks that the barrel of his brother’s gun is still warm a flock of birds still flutters on the lake and his brother’s red mare still neighs when his brother’s gun fires. then he travels further life is elsewhere he meets Milan Kundera’s silence in a Prague house he sees a Czech girl making love to a foreigner but Kundera, you live in Paris life is elsewhere maybe in that Solzhenitsyn country where exile’s sun rises or even further where Umm Kulthum’s voice is the breeze in the garden of the ancestors of Mahmoud Darwish he goes where his imagination takes him he resides in the places his eyes can see a poet’s country
Posted on: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 06:16:00 +0000
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