Sunday, December 1, 2024

ADNAN AL-RIKANI

 


 

She Alone Knows...

 

She alone knows...

My hand does not hold my five fingers

And does not protect me from the grip of filth

Dirtied by the groaning of anxious emotions,

And the pregnant run away from the ramifications of the rain

So can I gather myself from falling...!!

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She alone knows...

The hands of time have penetrated, stuffed

With the long vowel between the letters M and R,

With quick steps over the cracks of thirst

The appointments of love have been stoked with anticipation

And the hearts have been exposed for the prayer of Istisqa..!!

 

 

Writing On Water...

 

I am not helped by idiocy

 

Waiting...

 

My body is drowning in self-exile,

 

Even the mirrors are confused

 

In front of my image...

 

Its worn-out reflections do not translate

 

Steals time,

From an empty time like a mirage

 

Shakes hands with its mythical mask

Runs to plow a neglected field

Whenever the sky gathers its clouds

Those migratory birds urinate on it

Waiting has another story,

And another round in public

He leads me to his dormitory...

 

Like a sheep for slaughter,

Until I eavesdropped

From the hole of sorrows

And death bought me

From its salty fields...

At the price of pain and sleep

Thus ended the month of pollination

Like writing on water.!!

 

What Is Left For Me ...

 

Except the roots of smoke

Inside the monastery of groaning ...!

I retreat in the yellow autumn coat,

When the mud's viscosity creeps

And does not care about the homeland of skulls...

He blindfolds the eyes of passersby with a scarf

A gleam of false light,

He trims the nails of the night with the point of the spears of the covenant

He smiles behind a window with dislocated edges

Averting the mouth of the migrating wind,

So the horses of his white clouds fade

In the embrace of the occupation of gloom...

Perhaps the care of fate

Was above all the knowledgeable,

And the clouds carried the burdens of their improvised days

Leaving the plague of the spreading shadows...

In the rosy horizon spaces at sunset

He seeks an excuse for the drowning of the balsam

In the thirst of a rapist Matriarch,

For that sealed language to be agitated

On the sides of the river with the chants of the waterwheels

And the dance of the waist of the miserable oak tree

Fucking her shallow body,

And what is left for me of that story?

Other than bracelets of fire

Eats me with features of vanity

And devours the ears of joy firmly,

And turns them into debris in the wind

Ah... Oh my wrist

Ah... For your lazy rose

Ah... For the pain of the negligent

Among the deserts of life, he takes off his garment from me

He pushes me out of spite for a fleeting life

And I am in his false lap ...!

With his paid mask, he seduces me

To be his rough rib ...!

 

ADNAN AL-RIKANI

 


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