ILHEM ISSAOUI

ILHEM ISSAOUI

I MEANT NOT TO QUIESCENT MYSELF

I meant not to quiescent myself

I was waiting by the frigorific rivers

Contemplating the cold colours

All of the clouds gathered and raged

Till the pain was numbed

The curtains fell and everyone evanesced

I was left with a diaphanous tear gliding along

On stage I was left

With a rose I thought would be

Amaranthine

TO DEPART

To depart

To depart with the colours of dead foliage

And never return

To depart with the last ink drop, the last word, the last letter, the last breath of a quiescented moribund

Before dawn appears

Clad in genial and jovial rays

I pine for departure

The call of the void

An unfathomable antidote

My beloved

Winter is to nestle inside me and chirp

IN-BETWEENNESS

In-betweenness

A frigorific devoid

Fragrant with all the fumes of unalloyed and unfathomable diaphanous glee

I caught a mirage of you

In-betweenness

In between

The two trains of the bygone and the days to come

I laughed and wept

I yearned for

And loathed

The bygone

And clouds thwarted the apricity of the wintery sun

Then faded away

How I wished to disperse

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Like I have never loved

And never beheld

The dewdrops leggiadrous on petals

Of full-blooming roses

Like I have never

Contemplated the dawn on a wintery day

And the mist and cloud phalerating it

Not tarnishing its splendor

Unawake, I

The faintly fragrant sillage woke me

Like a numinous train with its sounds and smells

It traversed me

Only the sillage left

Only the sillage

ILHEM ISSAOUI

ILHEM ISSAOUI is a 24 year-old Tunisian MA Student, translator, editor, and poetry and short stories writer. some of her poems and short stories have appeared both online and in print in magazines including Three line poetry, Salis Online Magazine, Mind Magazine, Mad Swirl ,Jaffatelaqlam ,Danse Macabre,Iodine Poetry Journal ...

She is also the author of a collection of poems entitled Fragments of a Wounded Soul published in the U.S, and has received a prize in creative writing (Canada Toronto).  She currently holds the position of a translator and editor at an international company in the domain of Medical Tourism and has over two years of professional experience.