MY DEEPEST SORROW
© Farouk
Asvat
My deepest sorrow
Lies within you:
In the flutter of your abdomen
In the warm dove of your hand
Nestling against your face:
A festival of honey
Dripping with sadness.
Now that the stars have revolved,
Your ululating hand
Struts a pleasant goodbye
Knowing the dead bodies
That lie between us:
Years that took me
Through a heartache of foreignland
That left my body
Without substance,
A ghost of memories
That can never return us
To the garden of our hearts
© farouk asvat
composed: 1985 [Johannesburg, South Africa
under apartheid]
[] Acknowledgements:
My Deepest
Sorrow was previously
published in:
A Celebration Of Flames, (donker, p52, 1987);
A Celebration of
Flames (Heller Fund, UC Berkeley, California, USA, p44, 1988);
Mijn
Diepst Verdriet: Dutch translation by Irene Scheltes (1989);
A Celebration Of Flames (piquant publications, p53,
2007);
A Celebration Of Flames (kindle, 2014);
A Celebration Of Flames (amazon paperback, p53, 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,
photocopying, or via any computerised means or media, including the internet. This publication shall also not be stored in
a retrieval system. And the writing
shall not be sold, lent, hired, resold or circulated in any form or binding or
cover 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 @:
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piquante: www.faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com
books by farouk asvat: www.faroukasvat-books.blogspot.com
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MIJN
DIEPST VERDRIET
Dutch translation by © Irene Scheltes
Mijn diepst verdriet
Ligt in jou:
In het trillen van je buik
In de warme duif van je hand
Die zich nestelt tegen je gezicht:
Een festival
van honing
Druipend van droefheid.
Nu de sterren zijn
gekeerd,
Stut je jammerende
hand
Een aangenaam afscheid
In 't besef van de
lijken
Die
tussen ons liggen:
Jaren
die mi j voerden
Door hartzeer van een
vreemdland
Dat mijn lichaam
Zonder substantie
liet,
Een spook vol
herinneringen,
Die ons nooit terug
kunnen ?leiden
Naar
de tuin van ons hart
Dutch translation by kind permission
of © Irene Scheltes
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is now available on amazon: paperback @ $15 &
kindle @ only $5
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