Todays prompt was to read a poem in a language you are not too familiar with (so that basically you don’t understand it) and then, just from the sound of it write a poem of your own – I did two from French and Portuguese

Alone in the Dark

I contemplate my foolishness baffled by
the contrast of smoke and pure air
the leaves rustle outside my window
a piano is playing next door

I hear a tender tune of meetings in this moment
a song of the night, the earth
the dance of eternal stars,
inexorably close to my heart

The night again! after days of comedy
with no laughter, the sadness, my sickness
can’t be cured by the beautiful flowers.

The universe responds, but I cannot subsist
the days repeat and repeat, shouting encore.
My life is only sadness as I sit here alone in the dark.

Love is urgent

The urgencies of love
made me embark
on rough seas

the urgencies of desperate love
solid, square and cruel
bring my lament to the waves,
crashing around my feet

it’s urgent, it’s all going by too fast
so many kisses I sought in the cornfields
looking for roses and rivers
and open clear days

is my heart so impure
that I can’t find the light?
This love is urgent.
I came to the estuary
and now I am lost in the sea

© A.Chakir 2023