10th February

Forest,

a wild hare,

a deer sticks its head up,

in the shadow meditates a deer,

acorns become brown,

and between the fingers,

slips dark time.

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A thought

Between his eyes and her tears

stands always the suitcase,

and the distances of so many travels

towards perception,

towards the fire of poetry

in a foreign country.

FUAD RIFKA (Syria 1930-2011)

Translation Fuad Rifka – Germain Droogenbroodt

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Note: Adonis, Mahmud Darwish and Fuad Rifka are founders

of a new movement in modern Arab poetry