The strangers



The strangers

By :
Muhammad al-Maghout

Translated by:
 Hassan Hegazy Hassan
Egypt

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Our tombs are dark on the hill
Night is falling on the valley
Walking among ice and trenches
My father is coming back dead
on his golden horse
From his weak chest, the cough of forests
 is coming out fiercely with the rustle
of the broken wheels
The pain that gets lost among rocks
is chanting a new song for the lost man,
the blonde children and the dead flock on
the hard stony bank.

Oh, Mountains that covered with ice and stones!
Oh, River that accompanies my father in his desolation!
Let me turn off like a candle in front of the wind
and suffer like water around the ship
As Pain expands its traitorous wing
And death is dangled in the waist of the horse
Penetrating my chest like the look
of  the adolescent girl
Like the groan of the severe cold air.

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Submitted by Hegazyhhh on August 08, 2020

Modified on April 28, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AB ACB XXXBDXXXXXCX XXBXXDXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 825
Words 158
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 12, 9

Muhammad al-Maghout

Muhammad al-Maghout (1934–April 3, 2006) (Arabic: محمد الماغوط ‎) was a renowned Syrian writer and poet. He was born in the town of Salamiyah of Hama Governorate in Syria to an Isma'ili family. more…

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