A NIGHT FULL OF THUNDER
© Farouk Asvat
On a night full of thunder
Our bodies touched,
The first rains of the season fell,
And the Christmas tree stopped weeping
In the land of drought
The night sings to say
You avoid thorns,
But I am wounded by kisses
Touched by heartaches
But from the silent grave
Comes your tender song
Lamenting
Calling me
Deep, deep within your soul
Knowing there is nothing to expect
But what others offer
I accept.
You bring a gift of the wind
A handful of water
And a heart that brings bouquets
To the massacre of my soul
© farouk asvat
composed: 1985 [Johannesburg, South Africa
under apartheid]
[] Acknowledgements:
A Night Full
Of Thunder was
previously published in:
A Celebration Of Flames (donker,
p50, 1987);
A
Celebration of Flames (Heller Fund, UC Berkeley, California, USA, p42,
1988);
A Celebration Of Flames (piquant publications, p63, 2007);
Een Nacht Vol Onweer: Dutch translation by Irene Scheltes
(1989);
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
(24.07.2012);
A Celebration Of Flames (kindle, 2014);
A Celebration Of Flames (amazon paperback, p62, 2014).
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© farouk asvat. All rights reserved.
Farouk
Asvat asserts his moral right to be
identified as the author of this work.
No part of this publication may
be reproduced by any means whatsoever, or transmitted in any form or any means
whatsoever, mechanical or electronic, including recording, printing,
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other than that in which it is published,
without the prior permission of the author in writing.
Permission
to publish or reproduce the writings in any format can be obtained from the
author.
Reproduction
of this work without permission, except for scholarly & nonprofit purposes,
is
liable to a payment of 10, 000 ren men bi or US$ 1,500.
farouk asvat can be contacted at: farouk.asvat@gmail.com
[] please check out my blogs @:
weapons of words: www.faroukasvat-viewpoint.blogspot.com
piquante: www.faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com
books by farouk asvat: www.faroukasvat-books.blogspot.com
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EEN NACHT VOL ONWEER
Dutch translation by © Irene Scheltes
In een nacht vol
onweer
Raakten onze
lichamen elkaar,
De eerste regen van het seizoen viel,
En de kerstboom hield op met wenen
In het droge land:
De nacht zegt zingend
Je ontloopt de doornen,
Maar ik ben verwond door kussen
Door hartzeer getroffen.
Maar uit het z wijgende graf
Komt jouw tedere lied
Weeklagend
Mij roepend
Diep, diep in je ziel:
In 't besef dat ik niets
kan verwachten
Dan wat anderen
bieden
Aaanvaard ik.
En jij brengt een gift van de wind
Een handvol water
Een hart dat boeketten brengt
Naar het bloedbad van mijn ziel
Dutch translation by kind permission of
© Irene Scheltes
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