The sweet girl and I have been journeying through Jordan on our geography Mondays. Today we were reading from The Space Between Our Footsteps, a collection of poems and paintings from the Middle East collected by Naomi Shihab Nye.
Some lovely poems in translation here, with some especially beautiful metaphors. I really liked this one:
The Bridge
Poetry is a river
And solitude a bridge.
Through writing
We cross it,
Through reading
We return.
~Kaissar Afif (translated by Mansour Ajami)
2 comments:
Ah, very lovely! :)
Isn't it? Lots of lovely poems in this collection!
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