The strangers
Muhammad al-Maghout 1934 – 2006
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 |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 825 |
Words | 158 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 12, 9 |
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