Ode to myself!





Ode to myself!

Sameh Mahgoob
(Egyptian poet )
Translated by :
Hassan Hegazy (Egypt)



Ode to myself!

How many roads have you paved
for the evening and it betrayed you?!
How many desires have you baptized
 with the blood of deprivation?
How many friends have you left
in the mouth of death and returned sad ,
 leaving some of yourself, there?!

oh, my self!
who have taught you to be cruel
only  on yourself?!
You got lost, dismally alone, frustrated,
until you became a jungle
from dew and tears .

About this poem

This poem is written in Arabic , I translated it into English . It is from the free verse . It is for the Egyptian poet Sameh Mahgoob.

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Submitted by Hegazyhhh on December 09, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A bxbx A xxxxxxx acaxcx
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 508
Words 111
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 1, 7, 6

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