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
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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
https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/news/scetis-sohag
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"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)
https://www.facebook.com/MuqtabsatMayZyada/photos/a.340938385997032/2886838288073683/
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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
https://www.aldiwan.net/poem42424.html
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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 #fridaypoetry for the actual translation and talking a bit about the author latter on.
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!
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