poetry · Issue No. 3, March 1954 · p. 9
You Peer Out, a Moon / On a Lily's Lip (from the Collection Dulab)
تطلّي قمر / ع شفّة زنبقا (من ديوان دولاب) · ميشال طراد
From "Dulab" — a collection of verse by Michel Trad, soon to appear — the poet who showered roses upon us in the collection "Jalnar" and showed us how earth is bound to heaven...
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You Peer Out, a Moon..
Oh, would that I were some melody —
a green one, in a nightingale's beak — and you were some string,
and you would play me, and I would turn into a cloud,
and, my sweet, from behind it you would peer out, a moon!
On a Lily's Lip
My friend, why the toil, why the misery?!
And suppose this earth were yours, never to pass away —
is anything happier than a butterfly on the hills,
a red one, dancing on the lip of a lily?
من « دولاب » - ديوان شعر سيظهر قريباً لميشال طراد - الشاعر الذي طيّر علينا الورود في ديوان « جلنار » وأرانا كيف تربط الأرض بالسماء...
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تطلّي قمر ..
عْلَوّاهْ لولا كِنْتْ شي نَغمي
خضرا، بْنوكِر بلبل، وكنتي شي وتر
وتعزفيني وإنقلب غيمي،
ويا حلوتي من خلفها تطلّي قمر !
ع شفّة زنبقا
يا صاحبي ليش التعب، ليش الشقا ؟!
وفِتْرِضْ هَالارض مِلْكَكْ مْ بِتْزول،
مَنَكِّشْ أهنا من فراشي ع التلول
حمرا، بْتِتْرَقْوَصْ ع شِفّة زنبقا.
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