FRUITS
© Farouk
Asvat
There
are dripping litchis in your kisses
Cold
grapes exploding in the mouth
Oh
the dripping watermelon of your pubis
The
pomegranate rubies of your lips
The
pears of breasts
The
orchards of pleasure
The
vineyards of forgetfulness
Oh
how I yearn
For
the cemeteries of parting
© farouk asvat
composed: 1985 [Johannesburg, South Africa
under apartheid]
[] Acknowledgements:
Fruits was previously published in:
A Celebration Of Flames (donker, p49, 1987);
A Celebration of
Flames (Heller Fund, UC Berkeley, California, USA, p41, 1988);
Vruchten: Dutch translation
by Irene Scheltes (1989);
A Celebration Of Flames (piquant publications, p60,
2007);
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
(04.09.2012);
A Celebration Of Flames (kindle, 2014);
A Celebration Of Flames (amazon paperback, p59, 2014).
* The pomegranate rubies of your
lips: added 17.04.2012
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[§] Books by Farouk Asvat:
● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● I Dream In Long Sentences
(poetry)
● The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (poetry)
● A Celebration Of Flames
(poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives
(poetry)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are Coming
(short stories)*
● In The
House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words
(comparative literature & literary criticism)
¨ all my books are now available on amazon: in paperback & kindle
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[] please check out my blogs @:
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VRUCHTEN
Dutch
translation by © Irene Scheltes
In jouw kussen druppen lychees
Koude druiven barsten open in de mond
O, de guavagelei van de pubers
De peren van borsten
De hoven van plezier
De wijngaarden van vergetelheid
O, wat smacht ik
Naar de kerkhoven van scheiding
Dutch
translation by kind permission of © Irene
Scheltes
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