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)
Ah, very lovely! :)
ReplyDeleteIsn't it? Lots of lovely poems in this collection!
ReplyDeleteI have a poem in that collection too. "Stone for a Sling." I do not have the book with me now, could you please tell me what page this poem by Afif is on? Thank you.
ReplyDeleteAll the best from Turkey,
Yusuf Eradam
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