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THE ROSE AND THE LAMB

 

SATURDAY MARCH 3, 2012

FAHREDIN Shehu (Rahovec, Kosovo, 1972)

 

 

 

SPOKE AND TAMARA

 

I polished the eyes of the child suffering

Removing layers of gauzy vision

To see bright teeth while I smile,

And the latent and well hidden world of hatred in my soul

I have washed the stratosphere disaster

Her parents carefully deposited in his being

Impregnated with tears of love

I removed all contaminated spirit membranes

I gave a smile to a frog

And a silent kiss jade

I filtered the dew of the white rose petal

And Ruby told the ripe pomegranate

I have planted all kinds of fruits

And created a playground for all of us

You can call it a garden

You can call newborn planting of love

But I know its Tachyon-IC  ^[1]  of soil

Where only love can plant your seed

I have adapted a dress emerald

And perfumed with amber for all children to use

I fed all stomachs  ^[2]

With the glare of my soul

To make them transparent

To be enlightened

I created the army of smiling

And I called all the experts to dismantle the machinery of hate

In the fields of the symphony of light

In the sacred moment of eternity

I embraced all children, visible and invisible

And rejoiced happiness

I have crushed all weapons

That humans and demons have created

And thus converted into each powder,

A smile gave birth to the love

 

 

Translator's Notes:

^[1]  Theoretically, it is a subatomic particle which always moves faster than light.

^[2]  The author says in the original English: "I feed every stomach", which can be translated literally as "I fed him every stomach", but in Spanish the latter word may sound shocking and far from the style used by the poet here. So I prefer this version

 

 Translated by Luis Benitez (poet and essayist, Buenos Aires, 1956) depending on the version that appeared in the literary magazine Facts and Fictions , Number 8, March 2012, AñoIII.

 

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