Rain..won`t come

Rain..won`t come

Poem: dr. Hanaa Alkazi ) Iraqi Poetess and Physician)
Translated by : Freeyad Ibrahim ) a Kurdish writer and translator)

Your smiling bright face warbles wishes ,
Chants anthems of aspirations
like the pigeon.
O ye, the outrigger of the soul !
What s the matter,
That you glitter
and glint
like a gold ring stone
Whenever the sun cuddles you?
You hop like a gazelle into my mind,
Don t you know
that the distances have got a gnawing hunger?!
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Decades have passed and you still
are rolling me up
to your liking
with cords embroidered with roses,
altogether with a prolonged history of contradictions
I ....and you
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For the autumn...
How often...I opened my balconies
For a mere flutter , for a waft
Similar to the very merry childhood of your love
Soon I let go, and cast my obsessions far away
...you are not like the others
Unique
Nothing resembles ...your fragrance!
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Time wanes, and things expire,
Except for... you ..
For you live in your everlasting abode; my soul,
With your most graceful...the most splendid age
...more sublime than all times
badged with warmth and peace,
Despite the bitterness...
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I don t like parting from you
your departure I hate most
I haven t noticed your vanishing shade behind the door
Yet the hush of the house ...
Has disclosed your secrete..
And has equally extolled my intuition.
And gifted it with an effusive praise
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You ll never come back...
Hence, why should I sow futile phantom farms
Or till the lot of dumb dreams
waiting for zamzam water
in vain,
Since this falls not from the heaven !
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Translated by: Freeyad Ibrahim

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