Mariam Al-Masri · @bloodymar
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A bit late so here's a good nighttime poem. This is only a snippet and full poem is in the link:

"The stars in the sky upon us testify
My heart or its transgressing eyelid
The night drags on in infatuation
Sleep distances from the insomniac eyelid"
-Ismāʻīl Ṣabrī

xn--igbhe1a7h.com/wiki/%D9%86%

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Last updated 2 years ago

Mariam Al-Masri · @bloodymar
154 followers · 428 posts · Server masto.nu

Today is Christmas Eve for Copts, in addition to anyone who celebrates on the Julian or older colander.

So instead of a translation, here is an excerpt of an English poem by a man heavily involved in Coptic culture and society:

"we learn our names by water
blessed in the river of struggle
and from beneath the dome, recount:
mubarak al-ati bism al-Rubb
mubarak al-ati bism al-Rubb"
-Matthew Shenouda
cmes.fas.harvard.edu/news/scet

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Last updated 2 years ago

Mariam Al-Masri · @bloodymar
83 followers · 273 posts · Server masto.nu

"Between second to second,
Hope dies and Despair lives
A lip smiles and an eye tears up
A friend betrays and an enemy dies
Between second to second"
-May Ziadeh (1886-1941)

facebook.com/MuqtabsatMayZyada

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Last updated 2 years ago

Mariam El-Masri · @bloodymar
39 followers · 94 posts · Server masto.nu

You Did Not Speak and I did not Listen

This conversation is not appropriate between us

If the honorable are your friends

Conceal the ugly and reveal the good

Baha al-Din Zuhayr

aldiwan.net/poem42424.html

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Last updated 2 years ago

Mariam El-Masri · @bloodymar
38 followers · 88 posts · Server masto.nu

Today, I am going to post my first Arabic poem translation. I will be posting one poem a week, every Friday, with both a photo of the original, my translation and a link to where I received it for any Arabic readers out there.

Be on the lookout for it. I will be using the hashtag for the actual translation and talking a bit about the author latter on.

#fridaypoetry

Last updated 2 years ago

Lionel Dabbadie · @dabbadie
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tether · @tether
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There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any courses like a page
Or prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!

#supportyourlibrary #emilydickinson #fridaypoetry

Last updated 7 years ago