THE DARK SEA
© Farouk
Asvat
In
the lounge
A
deepak flutters
And
incense burns
To
the strange gods
Of
my youth
In
the backyard
Grey
smoke, grey rain,
And
orange flames
Devour
nostalgia
In
a bonfire of sentiments
The
wind is wet.
In
the melancholy of the shadows
The
moist timber glistens
In
the dark
In
the first light of night
I
lie down
Waiting
for the first touch,
Anticipating:
A
solitary star,
A
world of whirling clouds
The sea is dark
And your eyes are darker still,
Hiding everything.
Looking over your shoulder,
The sea glistens with moonlight
Sand stings in the wind;
Holding you,
A world of whirling clouds,
I remember worlds gone by,
Loneliness and loves ended,
A blossom of jacaranda
Falling quietly in the breast.
© farouk asvat
composed: 1985 [Johannesburg, South Africa
under apartheid]
[] Acknowledgements:
The Dark Sea was previously published in:
A Celebration Of Flames, (donker, p40, 1987);
A Celebration of Flames (Heller Fund, UC Berkeley, USA, p33, 1988);
De Donkere Zee: Dutch translation by Irene
Scheltes (1989);
A Celebration Of Flames
(piquant publications, p54, 2007);
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
(11.12.2012);
A Celebration Of Flames (kindle, 2014);
A Celebration Of Flames (paperback, p54, 2014).
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Farouk
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[] please check out my blogs @:
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[] DE DONKERE ZEE
Dutch
translation by © Irene Scheltes
Op het erf
Grijze rook, grijze regen,
En oranje vlammen
Nostalgie verterend
In een vreugdevuur van gevoelens
In de salon
Fladdert een deepak
En wierook brandt
Voor vreemde goden
Van mijn vriend
De wind is vochtig
In de melancholie der schaduwen
Glans t het natte hout
En ik lig
In het eerste licht van de nacht
Voor de eerste aanraking,
Vooruitziend,
Een eenzame
ster
Een wereld van woelende wolken:
De zee is donker
En je ogen donkerder
Alles verbergend
Als ik over je heen kijk
Glinstert de zee in
het maanlicht,
Zand striemt door de
wind.
Nu ik je vasthoud,
Een wereld van
werv'lende wolken,
Ik herinner mij hoe werelden vergingen
Eenzaamheid en vervlogen liefdes
En een bloesem van de jaracanda
Valt zacht
jes in in mijn borst.
Dutch
translation by kind permission of © Irene
Scheltes
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