Poems by  Juma’a Al- fakhrey

To Perish in Love…!!

(I love you)
My happiness will kill me
Do you love me?
My vanity will put an end to my life…!
My feelings will lift me up,
Beyond the endurance of my senses
I'll hold my longing and fly with pride
Like a butterfly
Flying steadily toward light
To tell the secret of my jubilance to the breeze
So it Will announce it to the flowers
You whisper your love in my ear
I wonder
Would my happiness kill me
Or bring back my life?

Your passionate words go through the heart
So intense, like warmth on a cold night
Questioning myself in the mirror
About the secret of being in love
And this stimulating happening
Why do I sing out of love now
And dance with birds in spring?
The fever of my turmoil
Is about to put me in bed
Out of my mind
Speaking the words of an idiot
I wonder why shyness
Causes perspiration on my forehead
And tears to flow like a river!
While I am sleeping
The forest disappears in my dreams
Night goes into my dampened hair
One thousand butterflies fly past my cheek
And a thousand gardens steal my fragrance
The bee forsakes all flowers
And adores the honeycomb of my mouth
The rose is lost in the bouquet of my perfume
Imitates the way I walk…
Wears my silky dress
My room is bright without light
Full of the spice of balm and incense
Anything you say makes me fly
An angel embracing all ages
Is this love…?
Too bad!
I am doomed!
It's like being deceived by a deluded scoundrel
Unsettled as a destructive volcano
Spinning like a furious tornado
Is love knocking at the door of my heart
Merciless as a serial killer?
With desire you whisper to my heart
Killing the soul with a flood of emotions
Would you invade me with tender, tormented whispers
Like the breath of roses?
My dear, you're killing me
With all your love flowing into my little heart
You'll be a killer without intention
Dominating my joy
The first innocent, premeditated killer
Whose victim embraced him delightedly
Don't hurry…
As I try to find a solution to your love
Which will balance your absence with your presence
When you leave, my yearning carries me away
And when you stay, my vanity shatters me
Be nice to me with my agonized heart
And lighten the intensity of your bold flirtation
For now my heart is unable to face the flow of love
Strong as the ocean waves

Do you love me..?
Oh, how precious my life is!
My private discourse,
How sweet my perfume!
(I love you), you say it?
I can't believe what I heard
Please tell me…
Now I don’t know where I'm going!
(I love you), an expression more than I can bear
It burns like the fires of hell in my heart!
Say it letter by letter
Bringing warmth to my broken heart
Slowly please
My joy, dreams and vanity will kill me..
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Yearning

I yearn for you more than you for me
So don't release the arrow of censure at me
Yearning is holding me here
Warming Me
Making me nervous and fitful..

Yearning writes my visions and poems
And still illicit emotions from me
When you are away, desire makes me vain
Naming me as the greatest lover
It kills my thoughts
So be prepared to see
How it fills me with platonic love..

Yearning takes me as a king to the world of love
Then sends me to you as a prophet
It impassions my heart with its fire
Returns me as close to you as a shadow
Love holds me on its waves
Like a soul arising from eternity
Orders me to obey my throbbing love
And a night of separation makes me wretched
Love beguiles my heart for dating
And conveys the joy of getting together
Love enriches my world with beauty
And spreads joyous, verdant hope
Which turns me into a naïve lover again
And secrets in the eyes turn me into a boy..

Yearning takes me to the world of love
And brings me back as a devoted Sufi..

Yearning opens a hole in my chest
And turns my heart into a glittering star
Yearning declares I am an infatuated lover
And reveals my secret love..

I wonder if you know how sad yearning is
So have mercy on me in the nights of need
Maybe you can forgive my desire and devotion
If you know what yearning does to me…
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Her Twentieth Birthday

Tomorrow is my birthday,
will you bring me bouquet of roses?
To morrow is my birthday, non of it is my concern without you,
I am waiting for it, all year long, counting the
Days like crazy.
One more hour, and some little time, it will be there.

I'll stay up all night infatuated, enticed by love
I'll give my soul to love, to sprinkle me, fold me around.
I'll lay out my heart for the wish to have you talk softly…promising me,

I'll whisper to the silent mirror, wondering
Like crazy. Do I look good? Do I need any make up?
Will my hair down the shoulders, make the look bad?
My ideal hairdo, will diffuse the odor of musk rose all over.
The sun face is in my face, and my eyes carry the sea color
My smiles flow, taste like figs and almonds
How graceful my body setup! My complexion!
My perfume, what is my perfume, it’s the
Aroma of October yawn.
It is my scent for sweet basil bottle perfume

What about my earrings, my bracelet, and my most beautiful dress
I'll put them on take them off,
And laugh like crazy
The sweetest dream is when you come to my orchards
And gardens,
To tell sweet words of goldfinch songs
You'll tell me stories about the fragrance of
Lemon cluster,
You'll sing love words, and listen to my melodies
I am well prepared to disclose my art in
Telling stories of my making, compose poems
To have fun with, to justify my longing,
This poem will keep me alive
I'll prepare the birthday lake, with colors
And decorations
The coffee will roar to flow in the silent cups
I am awaiting dawn, to come through, with
Your fragrant aroma
Being close to you, makes me happy, and being
Away is harmful to me.
We'll dream like birds,
Play around like kids
We'll cut the birthday cake, softly without
A knife
I'll light another candle, while love is shown
In my eye,
You'll draw for me, my imaginations
Which call me strongly
I rush to listen to your whispering voice
I feel my pulses like knockings on my door
Calling me
To rush joyfully to open the door, while
Love is shown in my eye,
The playing around wind, disappointed me and
Made me cry

Tomorrow is more beautiful, it is my Birthday,
So, dance and flirt with me,
I'll be born again, though am 20 now
I'll overlook my birthday, the best holiday
Is wish you visit me.

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The Most Beautiful Punishment

My beloved banishes me with absence
How sweet is this banishment
My love wants me to confess
About my dewy longing to her,
That I started granting her my madness, my poems,
And letting her in my book
She asks: my love does your love fill the universe, without doubt??
I tease her by my silence
So she is lost in the maze of answer
Getting angry from my love, my coldness
And my misty silent mood
She accuses me to be an illusion
So she is finding no sleep
And that I am like a mirage
And that I don't deserve her love
And I deviate from love like a usurer
She shakes my dullness with the hands of blame,
And rains me with the torture words
Speak up don't be like dull stone,
This silence drives me crazy,
Her naivety makes me laugh and
My failure of disclosing what I have in mind,
She threatens to forsake me,
And to exile me to the islands of separation and absence,
She goes away for one hour, and
Come back again, yearning, and my blames throw her on my lap.
She embraces me weeping on my chest, with
Flow of cloudy tears,
Softly, whispering in my ear,
Like a child coming back to his mother lap after long absence
Pleading me not to be cruel again, so she will change
Punishment with rewards
She goes on pleading, tenderly
Blaming me so deep
For God's sake, please, don’t' quarrel with me,
So I'll go to the unknown, and my torture killing me
And you put me in awful flood of sorrows, to
Pave the way and open one thousand doors.
Reprehending my silence and failure
And in my eyes the disturbance glow
While the bride of my heart is unaware,
That I am melting in her love,
Just like clouds
My silence in my concept is eloquence
Well-spoken, summed up answer
Do you love me..? I don't respond so may be she
Will start punishing me
How nice it is when we become together
To become poems of fantasy,
To become dialogues of love blames.

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A pretension

I'll act firm, I'll struggles with my heartbeat,
to overcome my loving him
I'll not be shaken up by infactuation
I'll conceal my longing and apprehension
I've been squeezed by love
I've been away and lonely
If I'll be with him some day,
My steps will follow his
I'll beat him by being forgetful
My dignity will prevent attracting him,
I'll excessively ignore him
I'll hold my pulse, when am closed to him,
I'll stay solid, though am longing to him
I'll give his heart to my passion
I'll act, as if am away to conceal my desire
He will wither out of endurance
His eyelashes will push tears to fall
I've been tortured many times by longing to him
When he has approved to fight my heart
If he reveals his love,
by just One sweet whisper
And if his look is so tender
My scheme will be hard to fulfill
And I'll fall in his net
I'll put my soul too close to him
I'll forgiver his cruelty
And in the sake of love pardon his fault
I'll rush to his world
My yearning will drive me to go his way
I'll give – in, and submit my passions
Without a scab
What is the use of my contention
While my heart is running after his love
I'll cry on his shoulders
Out of sorrow and loneliness
My heart will disobey me
And will declare, am ardently in love
It will magnify my little miserable passion
To make it as big as a dome
I'll urge on my yearnings
And act as if, it has been just a came
I'll cry like a little bird and overlook
Being firm..

 

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للقراءة هذه القصائد بالعربية , والمزيد غيرها..انقر هنا لزيارة موقع الشاعـر

 * هذه القصائد تمت ترجمتها للإنجليزية , من قبل منظمي مهرجان "أوديسا للإبداع الشعري" الذي أقيم في عمّـان/ الأردن , سبتمبر 2005 م. وشارك به شعراء من جميع أنحاء العالم .