Dyed Banks in Henna

 
     
     
 

1

 
     
 

Pillow

 
 

 

 
 

The earth

 
 

Be not except

 
 

A lifeboat

 
 

From unknown

 

 

 
 
 

 

 
 

2

 
 

 

 
 

Confusion

 
 

 

 
 

The night

 
 

A confused stick

 
 

Leans on it, the day

 
     
 

3

 
     
 

Blink

 
 

 

 
 

The poem

 
 

Lights a straw

 
 

In the eye of fire

 
 

 

 
 

4

 
     
 

Verily  warmth

 
     
 

The throb of life

 
 

Is two births

 
 

Mother and earth

 
     
 

5

 
     
 

Innocence

 
     
 

The childhood

 
 

Is a white sash

 
 

Dye by the dreams

 
     
 

6

 
     
 

Drowsiness

 
     
 

When the sun yawned

 
 

The planets penetrated in honey

 
     
  7  
     
 

Faith fullness

 
     
 

The rest of death

 
 

Verily presence

 
 

The mercy gushes out from it.

 
     
 

8

 
     
 

Gossip

 
     
 

The war

 
 

Lame gossip

 
 

On banks of the cities

 
     
 

9

 
     
 

Swimming

 
     
 

The souls

 
 

Are rivers from stars

 
 

That swim between the angel’s hands.

 
     
 

10

 
     
 

Intimation

 
     
 

The tent of the clouds

 
 

It’s column

 
 

Raised black flags

 
     
 

11

 
     
 

Etiquette

 
     
 

The foxes

 
 

Their skins are stained

 
 

By gossip.

 
     
 

12

 
     
 

Cannonade

 
     
 

Suns

 
 

Exchange visits unseemly

 
  They blow up the fires  
 

On the mirrors of the cities

 
 

That freer by the darkness.

 
     
 

13

 
     
 

Blind

 
     
 

His face is like his back

 
 

He sees the blindness

 
 

His stick is his sight.

 
     
 

14

 
     
 

Dream

 
     
 

The time levitate

 
 

Day by day

 
 

Month by month

 
 

Year by year

 
 

When the boy mount to his old age

 
 

His white beard fell down

 
 

And he hung his old age’s smoke

 
  Behind the mirror.  
     
     
  Written and Translated by : Said Alwaely  
  Detroit  04 / 07 / 2005