Prayers of the days, struggle of illusions

Prayers of the days, struggle of illusions
19 February 2025
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Translation of a poem in Arabic that I wrote on 15 May 2011 and that I had never translated before. I am providing below the English translation the original poem with a small correction. There are probably other small grammatical errors that I would not have noticed.The previous poem was published here دعاء الأيام، كفاح ألأوهام | Geetha Balvannanathan's Blog - Isis Tratum


If only I were a scream
to flirt with your lips
as I rise from them
springing free, forgetting silence



If only I were a rock
to roll between your hands
as I oppose your ways against happiness
resilient, bound, committed to stillness



If only I were a chick
to hide between your wings
as I look out from them
satisfied and calm, yours until I die



If only I were pride
to support the pulse between your ribs
as I help you store the air
a loyal owner, extracting sorrows



Today, from your rib
I am renewed, a sorceress, Eve
and from my rib, none can remove you
neither past grudges nor annihilation



I am the scream of the steadfast rock
so forget, Sisyphus, that I should roll
I am the pride of the chick for its mother
my days' tears flowed like rivers



I am every mother who called in the dark
the stones were shattered by my screams
I am what escaped the death of dreams
the wells filled with the blood of my veins



Look to the oncoming spring
for it bears the seed of my flowers
Put on the garment of the regretful autumn
for it is too late to oppress me



دعاء الأيام، كفاح الأوهام
2011-05-15

ليتني صرخة
كي أغازل شفتيك
و أنا أرتفع منهما
منطلقة حرَة ناسية السُكوت



ليتني صخرة
كي أتكركب بين يديك
و أنا أعارض طرقك ضدَ الهناء
صامدة مقيَدة ملتزمة بالسُكون



ليتني فرخ
كي أتخبَأ بين جناحيك
و أنا أطلُ منها
راضية هادئة، لك إلى أن أموت



ليتني فخر
أساند النَبض بين ضلعيك
وأنا أساعدك على تخزين الهواء
مالكة وافية منتزعة للشجون



أنا اليوم من ضلعك
تجدَدت ساحرة حوَاء
و من ضلعي ما أمكن نزعك
لا الحقد الماضي و لا الفناء



أنا صرخة الصخرة الصَامدة
فإنس يا سيزيف أن أستدار
أنا فخر الفرخ للأم الوالدة
سال دمع أيامي سيل الأنهار



أنا كل أم نادت في الظلام
تحطمت بصرختي الأحجار
أنا ما نجى من موت الأحلام
إمتلأت بدم عروقي الآبار



أنظر إلى الربيع القادم
فهو يحمل زرع زهري
إرتد ثوب الخريف النادم
فقد فات الأوان عن قهري


Reading of the translation in English of the original Arabic poem:
Reading of the original Arabic poem (most likely with some grammar mistakes)
Elyanna - Olive Branch (Edited Version) Lyrics + Translation اليانا - غصن زيتون

Alone we are not lonesome

Alone we are not lonesome

19 June 2018

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Leaves fall off the tree

Yellow butterflies to ground

Moss heather and stone

Mind’s criss-cross of highs and lows

Tangled webs of slain desires

 

Clouds gathered in skies

Raindrops showering gardens

Pond fish thirst alive

Mind’s preoccupations cloud

Soul reaching out to rainbows

 

Birds’ flight back to nest

Huddled sounds of nestling wings

Pairs to one’s solace

Breath of the divine inside

Alone we are not lonesome

 

Reading of the poem: 

Exaudi Vocem Meam Part I – Dark Sanctuary

Le Rêve de la Nymphe – Dark Sanctuary

Les entrailles de ce Purgatoire – Dark Sanctuary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn5SDpvUYH0

In beating temples

In beating temples

17 April 2017

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Courtesy Christian Schloe

 

Hawk’s eye stirs

Mesmerised iris

Glaring whirs

Into sight

The shadow behind that blurs

Witnesses of light

 

Invoke me

A game to dethrone

Casting stone

In rivers

The thought that blind delivers

From mirrors of old

 

Beat the cold

The breath throbbing drum

In the hum

Tale of two

Passengers that we once knew

In beating temples

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Heart Warriors – Byron Metcalf

 

Light in Stone

Light in Stone

23 March 2017

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Twenty-three

Set in my pastures

Shiver past

Death outcast

Coils live unwinding free

Blooming cherry tree

 

Blow sorrows

Easing out the pain

Window pane

Shadow lane

Like a candle in the rain

Set upright the train

 

Light in stone

Miracles to hone

Beyond woods

Bring the goods

Tired faces lose the hoods

On brink of morrows

 

Reading of the poem: 

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The World Beyond The Woods – Angels Of Venice

The Enchanted Forest – Angels Of Venice

Within You Without You – Angels of Venice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOI4laMJ98Q

My Master my Slave

My Master my Slave

9 December 2016

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Courtesy Devadevil on deviantart.com

 

Crossing gates

Of purgatory

The lives held

In barbed wire

The breath through which we expire

Kindling a new fire

 

Sustenance

More than mere penance

My backbone

Marble stone

Holding through stormy weathers

Loss of my feathers

 

We carve path

In cloud-rimmed blue skies

Where dark creed

Count the spies

They gather around the lies

Their fear unending

 

Surrendering

The only option

Giving in

Cloaked and thin

The source errors wanton glitch

Correctional twitch

 

Leitmotiv

Elevator pitch

I quote Heart

Sing bloodlines

Of all from which we are rich

Before sunset switch

 

He calls me

My Master my Slave

As we pave

A New World

Building with all that was hurled

The oncoming Wave

 

Reading of the poem: 

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The Inferno – Emma Shapplin

The Lovers – Emma Shapplin

Nothing Wrong – Emma Shapplin

 

Co-create

Co-create

24 October 2016

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Illusion

A floating of worlds

In my mind

World without

Percentages of choices

The outcome unkind

 

Build with me

With more than mortar

Less than stone

Future hone

We celebrate the Divine

In woodlands the vine

 

Of the growth

We have heard of tales

Flying whales

In Oceans

Floating into the blue skies

Where the strong willed lies

 

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Morrows suns

Warm the purple creed

Blended code

Love abode

They fused the Red and the Blue

We confused each clue

 

Intentions

A lost path of Pi

Cut the wire

Flamed the fire

Moved around in circle dire

Consequences Grey

 

Monsters slay

The bright pave the way

Replicate

Co-create

Image of beauty translate

Way of Heart dilate

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Courtesy Mario Koller on artstation.com

Arrival of the Birds – The Cinematic Orchestra (The Theory of Everything)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMFUkbr7ymY

Aquatic

Aquatic

5 September 2016

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September

Month of the nine trees

Grows branches

Into skies

The Angels now hear the cries

The deafening tides

 

Tree trunks float

On rivers of hope

The mind copes

In sawing

The thoughts that pervade clawing

The glimmering leaves

 

Bark and leaf

Two to a third birth

We pluck them

From the hearth

They grow in wasteland marshes

The city harsh is

 

Countryside

Landscapes of the fall

Beckon slow

To soul’s call

Finest grass for the reaper

Green is the new black

 

Oxygen

Failing my two lungs

They gather

Communion

Of pairs they will be but one

Fate of the changeling

 

Uprising

In waves of morrow

Destiny

Aquatic

They move underground frantic

The stone is their tomb

 

Reading of the poem: 

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9 crimes – Damien Rice

Delicate – Damien Rice

I don’t Want to Change You – Damien Rice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnzHOsiaJns

New age contemplate

New age contemplate

26 August 2016

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Demonised

Fragmented postures

Body parts

Grave imparts

Millenary stoned landscapes

Bittersweet the grapes

 

Utilised

Necrotica whim

Dented skin

Body thin

Planted seed of the hunger

Deathbed to linger

 

Galvanised

Finding the divine

Inside shrine

Freedom thine

Body a mirror template

New age contemplate

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Return to Outremer – Irfan

Otkrovenie – Irfan

Star of the winds – Irfan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbW0iOZHFzU

Indentures

Indentures

7 April 2016

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Courtesy Brad Kunkle on fadedandblurred.com

 

There are roads

Winding through thickets

Wild bushes

Tangled trees

The heart of where humming bees

Fierce lead to freedom

 

The bridges

In between the worlds

They shiver

Rumbling stone

On their tar I walk alone

My feet grey blue smoke

 

I hear calls

Of towering bluebells

They ring knells

Of kingdoms

Cheshire cat whose head I stroke

Purrs in mirth’s response

 

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They abscond

The reasons excuse

Their flight dark

Bridled spark

We walk while dogs sit and bark

Random happenings

 

The chest heaves

Ounces of regret

Woven tight

Into might

Fading strength as he believes

Truth of falling leaves

 

Knitted words

Loose ends flying high

Encounter

Indentures

Between whispers and the sigh

I find your heartbeat

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Courtesy Brad Kunkle on mymodernmet.com

Reveal – Bliss and Lisbeth Scott

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZY54mHHPwE

The falling children

The falling children

31 January 2016

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Each of them

Unknown mother’s son

Their graves white

Their hair cut

Their tomorrows spent in night

Their haunting timeless

 

Lily white

The stone on the Earth

Trace of them

Fading slow

With the last pieces of bone

Replicating loss

 

The tears dark

Blackwashing markings

Rimmel lakes

Connection

The soul a weary bundle

The struggle to sigh

 

 

She awaits

Hope within bosom

Her plaits neat

Flowers strewn

She had kissed him to wane moon

He will call in well

 

He lies deep

Battered and lonesome

His clothes pressed

Upon his corpse

They had sewn in his blown feet

He walked on a shell

 

 

They crawl wild

With the gnawing news

Inhaling

Exhaling

Orphaned dreams set their dark fate

The falling children

 

The love lost

Three times blown over

Ghosts hover

Angels weep

Her love so deep now asleep

The forever kind

 

A twin loss

Her womb now empty

She stares blank

The walls smite

Like those silent lilies’ sight

Her wish? to be blind!

 

Reading of the poem: 

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In your head zombie – Cranberry

Strawberry Fields – Across the Universe

They dance alone – Sting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS_bN5ECJTI