Monday, December 1, 2025

ADNAN AL-RIKANI

 


 

Thirst For Friendship

 

My fingers deliberately light the lanterns, whenever fate besieges the cracks in the wall with its dust, with a rough birth, and its sighs run on the sharpness of the axes, stripping off the river’s clothes with the tattoo of a rain cloud, as it opens the buttons of my mind with the bridle of longing, stealing another chapter from each chapter, and playing on the strings of Weakness with every desire, rebellious, obstructing the steps of resurrection, to strengthen the echoes of the past without a required bet... knocking on the doors of a forgotten city in which memories have aged from the horror of the shock, committed to silence due to satiety, and thirst gnaws at its bones and blows in the desert of its barren eyes except for his image, like a rich oasis that bears fruit for the soul And her poor heart rejoices, she roams its empty alleys, watching the movements of the waves of people, and every now and then she reads the supplications of her amulet, murmuring his remembrance in prostration, unconscious.

 

A Forgotten Friendship

 

Your pale color conspires

Against the breaths of my past night,

Above the branches of a shadow that spreads...

Shivers of mummified calls

With the biography of immortal youths

Far from his hateful nightmare

He tore the book of stillness inside the womb

The blackness of the night without mercy,

Because I am not the prophet of the pomegranate flower

I will carry tidings of amulets Pursuit.! 

With the scent of dimples, you penetrate the treasures of my pores and knots. 

My silence mixes with the trembling of my heart, 

to witness the places of pain between my ribs, 

hidden behind the breaks of light, 

like a hoopoe that left its mind in the court of Bilqis, 

crawling with the body of disappointment, 

from the traces of rescue bearing the features of the wind, 

and running in the fields. Light

To sow the sounds of the flute and sighs

Between the valleys of boredom, to no avail

Reconciles with the agendas of absence,

Whenever your specter leaves the spirit of forgetfulness

Curses the drowning of his fingers between the strings of an oud

Called for help by the cruelty of a mirror,

From which the lines of convergence were hidden

And at the bottom of my coffee cup...

The fortune-tellers gathered to condemn Obsessions

The lie of penetrating the intoxicated fog

With the hooves of the clouds,

While they are knocking on the gates of heaven.!

 

ADNAN AL-RIKANI


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