FETHI SASSI

FETHI SASSI  

I DO NOT REMEMBER WELL ... IT WAS SOMETHING

RESEMBLING HER FACE

She was drinking the rainbow  …

Hiding behind the bottle of absence

I do not remember well  ...  It was something resembling her face

I was with her drinking my retreat

Upon the arm of an apologizing flute ...

But the night revealed to her its fragrance

And invited her to sleep on the note of love ...

Her face blazed with poetry ; she melted as a poem

She is still , as usual , looking from the window of time

Like a butterfly bearing in the fingertips a sob that engraves

Memory  ...

Thus names dangled for her like desperate bunches on the ramparts of a poem ....

That's why...

I do not leave her dream early until choose to the wind the stones of oblivion

I sleep with her and on the hand of the evening a kiss hangs like

dreams of a kitten ...

A lip that sheds clouds on the groves of amazement

Me  ... I will steal a star and hide in the mist of words

So, alone ,the night ascends the ladder of time , chatting with a butterfly of amazement.

At the window of my heart I weave climates to the forthcoming seasons

So, spread to me a wish in the emptiness ...

Kiss me! your spittle is enough for me to drown  ….

You , a face absent from my poems

Open to me the sun gate to drink my storm ,

for I see behind the absence a raining cloud upon her obstinate cup

of coffee

Like the sore sunset smile

Like the evening tale

So be lenient waves !!

My fingertips care about her absence.

Her kiss is a hole poem .....

Let's enter together the dungeons of her body

There we shall knead the clay of the story ; and venture in the folds of its charm

We never care about the alchemy of kisses ...

But I do not remember well...It was something resembling her face...

POEM IN ARABIC  FETHI SASSI

TRASLATED BY MONIA ZGUIDI

ACHE FLUTES

Really   …

I do not reflect on eternity

But all the history is that I rebuke

the wind in the introduced poem     ….

I roistering as god does in the poet‘s funeral ceremony

I lie down on a tree border embracing baby fruit

embroider my face on my shoulder

and scatter climates of nostalgia   …

For suckling desire from bundle talk

But the milk cries if breate history is gushing out

a dream lost on the sly with peeps stars   …..

I have no face to wet my confusion in a sky

for a new happiness

I will seclude in the bottom of the absence

And scratch his extravagant night   …

Intimidate the silence to the resignation of

the emptiness

and collect pebbles to court ache flutes ….

POEMS IN ARABIC  FETHI SASSI

TRANSLATED BY  FETHI SASSI

A WILD WOMAN

I say  ...

Why don't I go astray Burdened by winter

Probing into the realm of the poem   ?

That's why my mother told me   :

Don't drink milk with the jerk

Ride towards the north of the night  ….

And drink her face  ...

No shadow left you ; but what befalls  you

Is the alienation of exiles upon the last cloud

That splintered in the tavern of the night

In fact  ….

you desire nothing but a wild woman  ….

Bones of a tree that changes its clothes for your forthcoming wedding

And a poem that wets the hair of water with a ballad  ...

Thus we parted like a hug  ….

Therefore, my son you have to woo your wound   ...

So that you pick up an amazement from her lips

Come in and let the sun bathe her face in your hands  ...

Let the coal of the story blaze with your longing

Dwell in fire to warm up the poem

On the shadow of the factors

Definitely the lightening will dwell stealthily in her cup of coffee.

So you become  ....

The stature of roses ...  and a tavern of tears

Then at the extremity of the threads of poetry

Bathe in the salt of her lips

Lay the absence on fire   ….

So that the rose grows old with her bleeding fragrance

And the poem peeps on my fingertips

The evening smells the metaphor

excessive in counting its fingertips

The spikes yearn for the call  ....

And the story remains like a tattoo on the shoulder of

doves   .....

POEM  ARABIC   FETHI SASSI

TRANSLATED BY MONIA ZGUIDI

Fethi Sassi  

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