By: Nouzad Jaadan

The English Review : Croatian poetess Maja Klaric

In the parting of roads

The old pain remembers the lights of streets

When I slept under a dark shawl

Counted the stars as hypnotized

Used rubbish as my pillow

And talked to a homeless dog

Hey, fellow! We walk by the restaurants just to feel the smell

Every day they kick us in our backs

I am like you but there is one difference

I have emotions and you don’t

I am human and you’re an animal

I walk without a track

This is my journey

The lights are turned off and the city is asleep

Except for me

I sit with my silence

My silence increases very quickly

Hey, human! I am like you

My fate is like a star in the shiny sky

That day I dreamed without sleeping

I saw my country

The sun stood in my face

Like a cross in a church

Like a mosque

Are these dreams guilty?

I sang the losers’ song

On our day of mourning

When we left the country

Night kohl dyed the crescent black

We took a strange route to a beach

The sea was a traitor

The anchors in the sand came and went

Losing us

Wicked sand, oh, wicked!

A hill appeared nearby

The sight of a road with a red carpet was

Incredible, my friend

The eyes, often lying,

Asked dreams about it

Ask the night for any type of suppression model

Reaching for a string of cloth

We wear dreams as dresses without sleeves

Above the knee

Shameful dresses, shameful!

I believe in these homeless dreams

Hey, my friends! Accept me as a weak light

By your side in a dark night

Aleppo 15-12-2009

Oars for memory 's boat!

When the old pain

Returns to the life

I must remember

Hey my father!

How was nice days?!..

When my grand father was old tree

As guide for another trees

I remember when I was child

You were catching my hand by your softy hand

Saying stories with your cigarettes

I was disappeared in your fume stories

Are you still smoking ?!

My soul is ashtray secrets

Now I smoke too and say for beauty girls :

Hey my heart!

Ah how I like girls perfume

Forgive me

We are as moon take our light form sunny sky

Forgive me mom

How much you hate smoking

Now in Abu Dhabi I distribute papers to customers about world cup

And with all my pain

I must smile for their

I must sung for their

Even if he does not respect me ..

Ah world.. is it a forks ball..

I remember yes my mother

Are you still thinking about our future

And crying when they say my name

I would ask you about Anas

Anas still coming to our home

And smoking on the road hiding from his father

How was good days !

Why when we grow up the sadness increase too

Is it sky building the sadness  build ?!

Increasing  increasing

Why always we see how we  were happy? why?..

Hey my mother!

Are you still watching tv series and ask my sister about what happing?

Hey my sister!

Are you still read books about beauty and save young

And cheat your self by mirror

All mirror is rainbow

All river  is  Loir

Discover the real by throwing  one rock

Hey my sweetheart !

You will come back to me

You will

When you remember me

You like star bright so far

But you disappeared in sunny sky

For every one shine ..

Hey my country!

How I miss you

Do you remember how I burn between your arms

Are your love is killer!

Alas!

Even if my country  was not  shameful moon

The foreign sun does not burn us ..

Woe memory ..

I think made by sponge to  pull all the pain..

Hey memory 's boats ..take me ..take me

Ankara Turkey

24-6-2010

My neighbor Rosa is beauty like star

She shined our homes as hopes candle so far

She is silly , cheat us as rainbow in  sky

We guessed her white sheet but down..

it 's  needles bar

***

My neighbor Rosa is beauty so pretty

I follow thee as river follow ocean

Then, she escaped from our street in

the shawl dark day

Under shadow of pine tree

When the eye is broken

But  the light in her room still shine  free

She walked  opposite our heart

As lemon

Had dried saliva in the mouth of silent men

Her hair is fields of gold

On the footpath her fustian tide

Hey happiness of who  step on

Hey fire of who fall in love with

Ah  Rosa! You are star in blind sky

***

My neighbor Rosa is beauty so pretty

She is unfaithful like star

Who gazed amused

Her waist like pasty

So many hands round on as stick

She closed her eyes a moment

Uncurl the curtains of our street

And she never compassion on us

How do you fare ..O time!

Moment  as optical year

Ah her eyelash ah!

Like hammock.. she flying us occasionally

And one time she downing us  to the ground

And somebody skied of the soap on the swing

"Bermuda" embraced

تضحكُ بعدها على منظرنا الغائم بالطين ولا تتوبْ Then  she laughs at  our  cloudy sight  with mud and never  repent

Hey Rosa!.. questions come to me

Who can clarify these symbols!

What if the rope cut off above us?!

Why sorrow come around our home like tramp?!

Is it homeless? !does not has home?!

Who said the heroes win the  end of story!

Marlowe was killed

Poe was  suicide

Shelly was drown

Buskin was lost

Alas!

How many heroes lost in our street!

***

My neighbor Rosa is beauty her eyes pretty so Gregory

Has escaped under the wing of the night

And  under the cypresses  's umbra

And the light from her window, still shine

Her dress anchoring  then dropped  on Clothesline

Do not fall

 tapped by  the wind

The dark slept on in it at the night

And the light in the morning covering  it

Ah her sash

Lucky you who I am envy  of his fortune

 O you hey  fog

 I am envy from you when you touch it

Don t go far away Rosa don t go like smile

Our faces blooded by tossing pain

And sadness witnessing  falsely years

Hey neighbor.. you left deep sorrow when you go

Come on ..come on ..return

share me with my tears glasses share me

Come on Rosa Come on

 And get out the oak from his rind

 is  bored  from the coma

Translated from Arabic started in  Aleppo 22-11-2009 finished  in Bursa Turkey 15-7-2010

Margins:

** British writer and poet Christopher Marlowe, who was killed in the bar

** Shelly British poet who died by drowning

** Russian writer and poet Pushkin, who was killed in a duel

** Philosopher Aristotle, who threw himself into the sea following the discovery of non-change in ocean currents

** The Bermuda Triangle

Traveler without track

Translated from Arabic by: Nouzad jaadan

From the street 's  heart I born

Under the high castle I grow

The rich 's windows reflect my sadness

I never did ***  with any  wall

But it increased in my face

 My pens is branches from sadness tree

It ink 's  from flow tears 

My sorrow  is blind and dumb

My happiness is lightning and thunder 

All travelers knew there ways

I am traveler with out track

Hey! Who let  me alone

Every bird need a  flock

Where you flied my heart 's stealing?

That they talk about

Does it disappeared under mornings wings ?

Where my happiness is hiding?

Is it in Ali Baba 's cave?

If it there what is password?!

Open Ya Somsom or adieu my sadness

***

The rocks in the way were broken

I  always bite it so it frequent   

Hey sir!

Do you know bite the rocks?!

Look at  my strong teeth ..it grind the rocks although it is milky 

Hey sir!

Do you put on shoes of glass?

Do you wear a shawl of wind?

Hey you! insomniac in the night

Made a bed from cement and a blanketed sky 

Then count the stars.. it is amazing medicine

***

Hey years!

What is birthday? ..why do not celebrate in death day?

I know my death hour and don not know born hour

My pervious  footstep brings   my coming footstep  

Why romantic persons miss to past

 Then their  past watches perk  with gold

Then they said the sundown is a gold hour

They  will travel with windy train

I will travel without has ticket Or passport

***

  From many years I am lost in sounds

And the wind is the biggest tin

When the wind is blowing I guessed the absent return

He bored from his holly day and return

He came to talked about Sharzad 's stories

And gives a lesson to wind because it laughs at branches

***

 Hey sea!

Tell me who is hiding when you alliance with sky

What matter with you ..you always  hit the rock and leaved it without suit 

Hey sea!

You made from me an island

Far and alone

Where is the gulfs and heads 

Why don 't share me the glasses

I was bored from hipping from hard heart chest

Where is my aspect and you are around me?!

Orthopedist I be a traveler without aspect

The boats come near from me

You kick it so it sinks

The glad hour for me when you be palsy

A   timer  palsy

Like rainbow amuse me

Hey sea!

Am I a drunken boat ?..but does boat be drunken?

Or you a drunken

What matter with the storm?

It is blowing when the boat closed from beach

In the sea you need to captain 

And every thing at earth need to counter 

Looking at stars need to strong leg

Loving moon need to a large heart

Walking in the street need to gravity

What about traveling to mars

DO WE need to captain, legs, heart and gravity?

***

Hey! Who bathing by hot water

Did the dessert slept with you?

Then you bathing by the snow

Dried your body with air

And sat in  tired slats carton house

Played a tone that 's name cough

Koh koh

Then you did not met a doctor

Front the sickness by sickness

I have immunity 

Challenge the cold  I

heal the snivel  with cold

And heal  the wounds by salt

Do you can do it?

Who bathing by hot water

***

One day I hoped be a berry 

On strong branch

at the tree

It has puff from loaf

Do not smacked by wind

Rain cann 't invasive 

but smack by bland  breeze then it is jerking in happy 

***

Hey castles! Hey happiness !

A day will come when your pictures fall down

A day will come when you sink in your hopes

It will be ashes or dirt    

Hey castles! Hey happiness !

A death morning

Who drew on my face a geography 

A death morning

Who let me share a cup with tears

 One day  I decided burn the castles 

I caught a candle  

Before I start I saw a absent 's shadow

 He said: don 't burn the street you will burn

I said : who burn his heart don 't ask about his hands

Take the candle and continue turn on the street 's lambs 

His shadow still set in the street who diffusion  the light

He said then  traveled

As the past when he threw me in the train and traveled

***

Ah mirrors!

And who mirrors cheat them

Why you see just the face ?

The moral is seeing the heart

I am unique dealer 

I sell flowers

And buy thistles with scrimpy  price  

***

Hello sadness

My mother and my wet nurse

You  suckle me milk mixed with  tears

Does wine mix with sugar?!

Some one know you very good

Some one know you little

You are world 's wet nurse

And who the fate frown  in their  face

it works in holiday too

***

My hopes bored from sitting on clouds

The cloud omitted it without rain

Hey crow! Where is my hopes?

My dreams is dim light

 The street 's light eat it 

Hey sadness ! do you accept me as astrologer about you

I am without job

I know the street 's  length, width, and highest

And they don 't accept me as engineer

***

Christmas  will come and go

You will not felt  it

New year will come and travel

You will not felt  it

The lovers will met and the night will steal them

They  will not felt  it

The sadness will grow in us

But I will felt it very will 

Hello who growing in me

Travelers changeable

But the train continue his travel

Why the train don 't change

Hey castles own ! answer me!

Why are you afraid from death?

I don 't afraid

Does I have sorrow  gun

Or I don ' t have any thing to lost

***

I am Traveler without track

I don 't cant emotion from you I need just heart

Seed the flowers where you go

Don 't forget ..don 't set on tree 's branches

Who buckled his neck ..he fixation  to ask

We will plants trees and roses in our road

In travel 's  road

A far away from destruction and graves  

The past was painful memory

Let make tomorrow as beautiful memory

lattakia 2004 translated in 2010

Oh katrina

Today the music is so weak
Rise the volume, it s' not mistake
I thought for hours, what should I said
If the nice heaven be my fate
Your beauty eyes open rose track
Kills the sadness doesn't leave any black
I hope if was poet to explain
However, I say she is as rain
Hey my nice song! Give me strong beam
The song is hard heart without rhyme
Oh katrina! .. hey katrina!
***

Today the music is so weak
Rise the volume, it s' not mistake
You love money , car and masks
I 'm like village star brave in darks
I waited thee under the snow
Just to see your face, do you know? ! ..
Maybe I don t' have money, say poor
But my heart can open any door
Oh katrina! .. hey katrina

***
I know you are moon in this world
Just to see, can not touch, it s bond
I claimed from thee from your light
To light my blind sky in the night
In night it s' cold..hey dark! .. my cold!
Oh katrina! .. hey katrian!
***
you put flower in my desert
Then, you escaped without alert
How was nice dream, disappeared in gleam
was it a storm? ! .. but no rainbow
After that, what it was my fellow? !
Ah! she went far as lovely sound
grow music a loud without cloud
Oh katrina! .. hey katrina!
***
I looked for her in Google and street
But no strain, I see her in morn stream
With all my sad I walk in glad
Don t say gloomy eyes, the world is mad
My eyes naturally have color sad
Oh katrina! .. oh katrina!
I know one thing, yes it was amazing!
Today the music is so weak
Rise the volume, to fill the leak

Aleppo november 2009

Hey you!

Undefeatable wrestler

Meet a rival

Don't met the weak folks

If you have to confront us

So let us practice a little

Then faced up

Or

 leave us continue lighting candles

    Before we enter the ring

Listen!

By your victory

You only reap the tears

Faces covered by frowns

And the crowd is holding worn signboard

What about to play hide

And

 Seek for awhile?

Don't count to ten

But count

To the last number you can count

***

Hey You!

 Unforgettable wrestler

Stop!

And drink a cup of cold Tears

Try it!

Before you accept the triumph

Why you always watch us

Behind the glass

And get hide inside rain drop

And disappear at the beams' light

Oh, cease snatching the princesses!

Hadn't you get enough

With all the beautiful ladies you got!

Princes are waiting for Shahrazad's tales

To chant the songs together

The tune couldn’t continue with any Words

What's wrong with you faint light?

Don't you know you must come out at night?

You have no choice

****

Alas!

 Impossible wrestler

Have enough with gorgeous women

That you stolen front of mirrors

Our hopes get frozen in the roads

And becomes only images

How much we were eager

To talk about you

 Or

To know your secrets

Woe! When the time is come

We were at the top of mountain

Let' me ask you a Question

Why you choose weak rivals, huh?

Only they wear white sheets

In a deep loop

Isolation is fake referee

The mass are flowers

And if the time's come

 To face me

And you won…

Don't put the loser's sign

This shows my defeat

Close not the ring

Give me awhile

To come out again

And wrestle with you

 In another rounds

because

I am rejecting medal of tears

2007 

The Mornings Orphan

Alas!

 I am the morning's orphan

The night hugs me to the vigil's refuge

Washed his face by my writing

eyelined my eyes with his kohl

Combed his hair by my pen

Laid on my copybook as bed

Slept on and

My lines as tired weary breasts

Ragged from the harvest's years

My heart is ashtray for smoke secrets

My evenings are expanding

While my morn is dumb

My words are lighting as light

And mirror on the brazen roofs

The vagrant wind is begging

Close to my window

Suddenly my eyes shaken

Then, I sat under the stars shine

After that I thought about flying

I made wings from water

And I soared

           But the night's beloved         

freeze my blurred wings

I loved her pride

And I failed in love with her

Then, my songs altered

And I became a night's foe

I knew that I couldn't fly and

But, I can sung

Aleppo 2006

Damas 2000

Come with me to the moon

I will not be afraid from dark

Come with me to the sun

I will not be afraid from burn

Come with me to the stars

I will not be afraid from shine

Come with me to the   Mars

I will not be afraid from freeze

But don't go a way and

Travel far miles from me

When I will be afraid from loneliness

Open The Door

My sorrow never dry

Happiness try

  Always loser

Why my hopes shy?!

***

When I open my eye

My luck said good bye

Between me and the  door

There is abyss like tie

*****   

My door knocked strong now

Open door need rose, how

I open, around me thistles

My rose eaten by cow

*****

If I wanted open door

I mustn't scared from  shore

Made  bridge need to heart

My heart is summer cloud core

****

I must swim in hole like diamond

Cloud made by fume, that's bond

I walked on the hole, opened the door

It was wind no other  told

aleppo-shaikh maksoud 13-2 -2006