Selections

Ibrahim Mohammed Ibrahim
Selected Poems

Selected Poems
continued from Banipal 42

Translated by Fadhil al-Azzawi
from the poet’s collection Laisat al-Ardh li ( The Earth is not mine)

CAGES 2

I won’t destroy these cages
I won’t come out of my cocoon
but I’ll destroy the language in my chest
to love you more.


NIGHT

The morning I slept through
was nothing but a night
you call morning.


READING

Don’t say anything –
I’ve read you with my heart
before you arrived.


SLEEP EARLY

Sleep early,
don’t burden the evening
Sleep early
beside a drooping flower
beside burbling waters
Sleep early
and wake up with the birds
to continue your singing.