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TWENTY TANKA POEMS OF R.K. SINGH TRANSLATED IN TO ARABIC by OLA SAWAH
TWENTY TANKA POEMS OF R.K. SINGH TRANSLATED IN TO ARABIC by OLA SAWAH
TWENTY TANKA POEMS OF R.K. SINGH TRANSLATED IN TO ARABIC by OLA SAWAH
BY OLA SAWAH
Writer and Freelance Translator, Lebanon
1.
on the wall
the window grill's shadow:
midnight pain
overwhelming touches
indifferent after-taste
2.
each night
peace is taken away
by my father's shrieks
and our useless effort
to calm down frayed worries
3.
professors beware
intellectual success
lies in inventing
lies to conceal common truths
and sound holier-than-thou
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
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9.
10.
muttering prayers
in the silence of exam hall
a newcomer
with seized wit:
teachers delight
11.
12.
13.
a tress of hair
she drops over the mole
on her forehead
thinking it's ugly and
hides her own gazelle eyes
14.
15.
no cakes or cookies
to celebrate my birthday
this new year eve
lunar eclipse and blue moon
cheer the cup in foggy chill
16.
17.
18.
plodding away at
season's conspiracies
life has proved untrue
with god an empty word
and prayers helpless cries
19.
unable to see
beyond the nose he says
he meditates
and sees visions of buddha
weeping for us
20.
unknowable
the soul's pursuits hidden
by its own works:
the spirit's thirst, the strife
the restless silence, too much
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