Saturday, August 16, 2014

Tree

We have to focus on a great poem, "Adonis", by the poet Tree, translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa in TheWolf, April 2009, issue 20. There's a lovely feel to this piece, a moving ambience that seems resplendent with nature and the almost otherworldly beauty of this earth.

Here's an excerpt:

In Jeirun there is a door made of roses.
Passersby bathe in its scent.
There is a tent for wounds,
there is a forest for the morning,
its branches are bridges that eyes track
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