قضايا وآراء

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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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With their luminous souls,

Our patient mothers

Embrace shrines

Of the holy imams and saints;

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Kisses have their mystic music,

And have their wild storms;

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The kiss is a space

The stars of which

Are aureoles of eternal life;

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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;

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Mystics’ kisses

Are Gnostic;

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Does the executioner know

The meaning of a kiss

Without whips?

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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;

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Bread and books

Deserve to be kissed,

If fallen on the floor,

In reverence to the blessing

And the word

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Even ants

Engage in kissing;

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In its fullness

Happy wheat ears

Bow down to embrace the earth

And bless the threshing floor;

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Whales

Have their eccentric rituals

In embracing and kissing;

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Inevitably,

Brooks exchange kisses,

In short encounters,

With their mother rivers;

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Hedgehogs’ kisses are

Prickly,

and wounding too;

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Mountains

Kiss the eyes of Earth

And outpour profuse and clear water;

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Without candles,

Without lamps,

Our lips meet

And we embrace,

Despite the war harshness,

And despite the prickly darkness;

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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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 Translated

June  

2, 2009

Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)

USA

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* Selected from:

 “The Kiss” the book:

A project consisting of one hundred kisses and one kiss.

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http://goldenpoems.wetpaint.com/

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