Associations Poem by hussein N. Jabr AlIbadi

Written by QASSIM AL_SHAMMARI
Translated into English by HUSSEIN N. JABR AL_IBADI

Associations
(1)

Out of the unknown fables
We make a god to glorify,
To cling to his holiness
That to whom we've given,
Lost there in his bareness
Until the sun be our shade.
We with the wind shall run away
To go beyond darkness
In lanes as crooked as our secrets,
Looking for bodies
To contain our tombs.











2)
Fables are …
The traits of holiness.
Such is the way they're defined
By those who would backbite
Their gods before they worship.
We're armed with wounds
Walking on sticks of lame dreams,
Carrying mirage
To water the bounds of thirst.
Our darkness daughters would fear
The shrines of water;
And yet our prayer
Would keep on blocking
The gates of the clouds.










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(3)
Souls, here, are but a seed,
This is the way they used to be,
Yet, they're still so,
And such will they remain,
For they're just a field
Over its countenance running
The rot that was born
At the pre-history times.
(4)
Different thought;
An excitement in one direction
Such are the stars gathered.