A Summer's Cloud Poem by Nouzad Jaadan

To katerina

She sat opposite of me
When I was stealing my copybook's virginity
She gifted from her eyes a kiss to me
I thought it's to someone else
But no one was behind me
Every tı me she was staring at me
My paper's virginity was stolen
Her face is a reflection of moon on water
And I am the wisher who tosses a wish to the bottom
She has got the laughter of the dawn in his rise
Her lips look like two banks of river
When I send a kiss she laughs
Then I see the whiteness of a cloud
Her breast like tow mountain
Lined in centre by light river
And I am a happy cloud on the top
***
She lift her red fustian a little
And my eyes like her thigh never seen
There was a lovely nevi as stars in the sky
She catches a long cigarette
And put it between her lips
Every corner blow its fume
Maybe extinguish my burning heart fortunate
I gazed in her face
Maybe I know her
Or know where I saw her
And I am lost in her magic eyes
Then, I remembered she is princess of my dreams
***
A paper dropped
From her softy hand
She went out from the restaurant quickly
I thought the paper is a perfume love letter
It was the restaurant bill
The boat was close from the coast
And there was no problem
Which crazy time this storm had? !
To destroyed a boat which anchored
For moments

*this poem translated from arabic by me
Aleppo-13-2-2005