Category: Free Verse

When the snows fall, and the white winds blow,  

The black crows feast on the frozen sow,  

They pierce its rotten skin and flap their wings in wrath,  

For there is no more game nor a single blood bath.  

The pale stag wipes its muzzle for a snippet of grass,  

For there is no more fertile land, only frozen weed.  

Herbs that have been petrified in time and consumed by cold,  

Cold that has made the nights longer and the days darker.  

Nights full of terrors and bursting chill.  

And days in which no sun smiles nor beading light,  

Only biting cold and swallowing mirk.  

Thus, behind the woods wolves with their sharp fangs lurked,  

In the gloomy twilight wandering for flesh.  

And enticed by weakened deer in agony,  

They seize their dinner in fury.  

Small creatures are born and die in the long night,  

Ignoring the growing fear outside their caves and fright.  

Shall they one day see the sun and know the word of bright,  

For there is nothing better than vivid life and dazzling light.  

 

I no longer yearn for your graces for 

they now feel like shocks, reverberating 

through my body, enticing pain throughout 

I no longer yearn for a touch that sears 

 into my skin so unforgiving and 

 greedy, apathetic and incognizant 

I will let go of my claim on you, 

Unclenching my grip, my fingertips bid 

you goodbye at last, the agony ends 

 

In your shining essence 

I wonder if sheer truth remains in existence? 

For hath there been such everlasting glory 

Never rising upon your honor in our own victory 

Moving the waters in such gracefulness 

Comes the moment we all scatter towards your embrace 

For there is none for me to offer 

But my deepest welcome to you, my lover 

 

Morocco is a free nation. 

Indeed, it deserves its citizen’s humiliation, 

It’s natives’ prostration, 

It’s children’s salvation and self-renunciation. 

For Morocco, we must fight,  

for corruption has become its light, 

and justice has become its delight, 

No wonder that our state has become none. 

And our vanity is done. 

Corruption has climbed into our heads. 

And we have bowed as slaves while usurpers have arisen as Gods. 

We have permitted our country’s inclination and our brotherhoods’ invocation. 

Yet, we should not surrender to them, or to any traitor of our nation. 

My nation, rise to the top! Rise as others would not step aside! 

In the same way you are bowed to your God, let this bowing earth be us, as one hand does not clap. 

You are not alone, adjoin your power to ours, and you will be invincible, as God never loses His Righters’ deeds. 

From dusk till dawn I am dreaming of a life with no worries 

laying down in a forest plucking fresh cherries. 

Where the pleasant breeze waves my hair 

Where all I should do is sit and stare. 

The sunlight says hi through the tree leaves, 

As gentle as a mom’s tenderness 

warming up my cheeks to endlessness. 

All pain and concerns decide to leave. 

No evil does bad and no hater gossips, 

No cruel harms and no liar profits. 

Blessed lands with no place for boredom, 

Where flowers never cease to blossom. 

Crystal clear water in the river flowing, 

Tastes divine and feels like paradise, 

Makes a soothing sound and gets me forgoing 

To its beauty and leaves me mesmerized. 

Oh I wish I could be there and breath the air, 

Oh I wish I could find this place and swear 

That I’ll never go anywhere 

And stay without warfare. 

How could you break my heart before we start dating? 

You stopped me in my thoughts, and I know that our hearts are beating in harmony 

because destiny has set our rhythm 

Oh, love, love, love 

My heart is hurting so badly right now. 

My tears are flowing down like heavy rain. 

We’re no longer soulmates 

Where are our dreams and promises now? 

I am aware that I never expressed my emotions. 

Just trust me when I say that I would melt every time I saw you. 

You made me so blind, it’s unimaginable… 

You convinced me that you were the perfect one I could ask for, 

You proved to be the worst. 

I’ve been thinking about you, 

And I just want everything to be different. 

Yet, words endure forever. 

Still causing a lot of suffering. 

You really hurt me, and it hurts a lot. 

From all the plans you were unable to keep. 

From all the lies you told me 

They are all still there in my thoughts 

and refuse to go away. 

Don’t you see how hurt I am inside? 

Words unexpressed, left unrevealed 

And you just realized how it ends. 

I can’t take any more heartache. 

There is no more pain in my heart to feel. 

You hurt me and broke my heart into pieces. 

Please, just leave me 

 

Les marteaux de Thor tambourinaient ma tête, 

Et les tonnerres de maux zébraient mon front. 

La tempête retentissait sans aucune retraite, 

Et mes idées sur les navires de ma pensée coulaient au fond. 

Pourrai-je méditer ou réfléchir? 

Bien sur que non, tant que mon esprit ne cesse de fléchir. 

Mes fantaisies s’étendent en ruines, 

Où tout s’adonne aux périls. 

Des refrains feutrés de guerriers répercutaient, 

Auprès d’une rafale nerveuse serpentant le gué. 

Une fumée broussailleuse s’élève dans mon cerveau, 

Au dessus d’une armée de bourreaux. 

Mon front s’embrase d’ardeur, 

Et mes yeux rougissent de fureur. 

Un immense souffle draconique s’échappa de mes oreilles, 

Puis mon nez semblait une ruche d’abeilles. 

Tout un bourdonnement me jacasse, 

Dont on ne se débarrasse. 

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Thor’s hammers pounded my head,
And the thunders of pain stroke my forehead.
The storm raged with no retreat,
And my thoughts on the ships of muse sank to the bottom.
Can I meditate or reflect?
Of course not, as long as my mind keeps slipping.
My fantasies lie in ruin,
Where everything is indulged in peril.
Muffled refrains of warriors reverberated,
Next to a nervous flurry winding the ford.
A bushy smoke rises in my brain,
Above an army of hangmen.
My forehead is ablaze with ardour,
And my eyes redden with fury.
A huge dragon breath escaped my ears,
Then my nose seemed like a hive of bees.
A whole buzzing chatters inside me,
Which I could not ward off. 

 

My love letters long for an answer 

Like a virgin waiting for a deceased soldier 

Seductive under the festive bullets of a killer 

Sedate in the presence of the demise coming closer 

Embrace me one last time before departure 

Kiss my lips and hold me tighter 

Do not let go of our poisonous worship, our predominant master 

Do not withdraw from our smothering smolder 

Love stories happen to be vulgar 

Ours is limpid like a love prayer 

Like a heart crying a river 

Like our dreamed-up roof painted in temper 

How can I be touched by another stranger? 

When my corpse is lifeless as you run farther 

All I am is a perished creature 

The return of my soldier is all that I hanker 

All these prayers are not gifted an answer 

All this patience is not awarded with a closure 

Perhaps it is time to kiss goodbye the summer 

When our eyes played a melody of ardor 

I set you free now and I surrender 

You’d save a life they say 

only wearing a piece of cloth everyday 

I can’t breathe, I’m suffocating 

The answer of a reaper debating 

I can’t breathe is not for you to say 

two words born of man’s desperation while fading away 

a movement for the rights of your fellow man 

like a wounded torn down creature begging for its release 

They say we’re celebrating Eid,thanksgiving, and Christmas 

it’s a rebellion, we’re fighting the system 

we’re still young, fit as a fiddle 

The sheer callousness scarcely a riddle 

Thoughtfulness and human decency 

A thing we’ve not seen recently 

Governments shouting the economy’s first 

what’s a human life if not a commodity? 

We buy, we bargain, we sell 

To any resemblance of decency, we bid farewell 

As we claw our way to say me, me, me 

Pray tell who else are we supposed to see 

Blood on their hands never washed away 

the ruins in their wake mere child’s play 

Anguish and suffering simply untold 

A dark tapestry never to unfold