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Think of it |
تخيلي
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Marjan Stojan -
Slovanja
(1949 - ) |
شعر: ماريان
سترويان - سلوفانيا
( 1949 - )
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Translated by Sayed
Gouda - Egypt / HK |
ترجمة سيد
جودة - مصر / هونج كونج
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Think of it - |
تخيلي
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from now on our days |
من هذه اللحظة أيامنا
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(one after another)
will run on eventually. |
تجري تباعاً
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All of a sudden |
فجأة ً
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my lighter won't
strike, |
قداحتي لن تشتعل ْ
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the coffee will run
out, |
وقهوتي تنفذ مني
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my Parker won't write
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قلمي الباركرُ لن يكتبْ
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what was left in the
bottle, |
وما تبقى في الزجاجة ْ
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that too - it will
run out |
أيضاً سينفذ ْ
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cheers to you! |
في صحتك ْ!
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I'm giving back none
of the things |
لا شيء مما قد منحتِني
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you gave me. |
أعيده ُ إليكْ
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I'm running out of
them as it is: |
تنفذ مني كلها:
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leaves, |
تنفذ أوراق الشجر ْ
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books, feathers, |
والكتْبُ والرياشُ
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planets, |
والكواكبُ
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pages in your hand. |
الأوراق في يديكِ
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Even you. |
حتى أنتِ
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Only my despair |
لا شيء لنفسي أحتفظ ْ
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I keep for myslef! |
لا شيء إلا اليأس لي!
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Marjan Strojan was born in
Ljubljana in 1949; poet, translator, film critic;
raised on his uncle's farm in the fifties; studied
philosophy and comparative literature in the
seventies; in 1979 joined the Slovenian Section at
the BBC World Service in London; in 2005 a fellow of
IWP at the Iowa University and a resident writer at
the Sitka Institute, Alaska. This year he was made
resident writer at The Baptist University in Hong
Kong. Currently with the Cultural programme of Radio
Slovenia in Ljubljana. Strojan published five books
of poetry: Excursion into Nature (1990),
Small Insomnias (1991), Steamers in the Rain
(2000, Veronika Award), The Day you loved me
(2004) and The Landscape with the Shadow
(2006, nominated for the Veronika and Simon Jenko
Award). He also published many translations, among
them a selection from The Canterbury Tales
and the selections of Robert Frost’s and
Sydney Lea’s poetry. He edited and for the most
part translated the first comprehensive Anthology
of English Poetry in Slovenian; for his
translations of Beowulf and Milton’s Paradise
Lost he received the Sovrè award for the year 1996
and 2004 respectively. In 2004 he adapted his
edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost for radio
and CD as well as the stage. Strojan’s poetry
appeared in German, Check and Polish, Spanish,
Italian and English translations. Marjan Strojan is
an honorary fellow of IWP, University of Iowa, and a
vice president of Slovenian national committee of
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