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A Kiss … Kisses … Kisses
Poem By: Saad Jasim
Translated from Arabic
By: Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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ترجمتها للإنجليزية: د. إنعام الهاشمي
(حرير و ذهب)
-1 -
With their luminous souls,
Our patient mothers
Embrace shrines
Of the holy imams and saints;
- 2 -
Kisses have their mystic music,
And have their wild storms;
- 3 -
The kiss is a space
The stars of which
Are aureoles of eternal life;
- 4 -
If it wasn’t for you,
Oh, lover bee!
Adam wouldn’t learn
How to kiss his Eve,
And suck the first drop
Of sweet nectar From her lips;
So the legend tells,
It resembles the first kiss;
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When you have to be away,
I kiss your shirts,
Your handkerchiefs,
And your little things,
Then feel the sway of your presence,
And forget the dreariness of your absence;
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Platonists’ kisses are
Dreams and
Wounded passionate desires;
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There are rivers
That pine for their first springs
They go back to embrace them
Even if they have to
Change their course and shores;
- 8 -
Mystics’ kisses
Are Gnostic;
- 9 -
Does the executioner know
The meaning of a kiss
Without whips?
- 10 -
Drones are professional cheaters;
In the presence of their bees,
They kiss flowers;
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With your compassionate kiss,
Oh, human angel,
You endowed me
With a chance for survival;
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Friends’ kisses are
Deferred desires,
However, debunked;
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Kiss me,
Kiss me, my darling,
So that I become graceful,
And more beautiful;
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Philosophers,
Kiss with their hearts;
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Two things I couldn’t be weaned of,
Kissing, and crying;
With them, I am to be,
And I am to be cleansed;
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Oh, you elusive fox,
Do you have customs in kissing?
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Grandparents’ kisses are
Virtue, reverence, and forgiveness;
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Teachers, scientists,
And ascetic elders,
Alone, are worthy of kisses
placed on their white hands,
And on their forehead
That are luminous with light
And manifestation;
- 19 -
Bread and books deserve to be kissed,
If fallen on the floor,
In reverence to the grace
And the word;
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Even ants
Engage in kissing;
- 21 -
In its fullness
Happy wheat ears
Bow down to embrace the earth
And bless the threshing floor;
- 22 -
Whales
Have their eccentric rituals
In embracing and kissing;
- 23 -
Inevitably,
Brooks exchange kisses,
In their short encounters,
With their mother rivers;
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Hedgehogs’ kisses are
Prickly,
and wounding too;
- 25 -
Mountains
Kiss the eyes of Earth
And outpour profuse and clear water;
- 26 -
Without candles,
Without lamps,
Our lips meet
And we embrace,
Despite the war harshness,
And despite the prickly darkness;
- 27 -
Oh, Earth,
Our eternal mother,
You, we kiss your feet,
Without shame or submission;
But the feet of sultans (tyrants)
Do end up in the darkness
Of nihility;
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Once upon a time …
The wild mare
Said to her raving stallion:
Smell me!
He embraced her,
Then kissed her,
And the prairies roared up with neighs;
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