A Bier of the long winter          

 
     
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  Winter  
 

                    

 
 

Every evening                                        

 
 

I enter a bier of the long winter              

 
 

Its blue dawn

 
 

Pierced by the stars

 

 

 
 
 

In its light the planets run rangy

 
 

The moon wears a tent of clouds

 
 

The rain licks its wound interior

 
 

The cold adheres in its eyelashes

 
 

In soughs of its eyes                                

 
 

And in its clay

 
 

The stars become muddy

 
 

 

 
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  They bask                                                
 

 

 
 

In the old train station                                   

 
 

The ruin of the latter war                                 

 
 

The blown blue paint

 
 

Rust dyes it

 
 

 

 
 

Inside the cars                     

 
 

The klaxons of their soaked eyes              

 
 

Are lowered like empty pockets                          

 
 

Their eye’s quarries are foam from                

 
 

The stickiness of the light        

 
  In the smoke of rust they bask  
 

And they sleep in an evening

 
  On the other bank of life  
 

                                  

 
 

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Moan

 
 

 

 
  Whenever in inadvertence  
 

A moan flames unintentionally                     

 
  And burns the branches                                     
 

From above the trees of life          

 
                                              
 
 

Written and Translated by : Said Alwaely

 
  05 /02 /2004