Thursday 6 November 2014

أحبك - Poem for my mother

والدتي في المستشفى

كنت في لندن

اسمك آن

أنا بعيد عنك

أنا أحبك جدا


غدا في لندن

I need to switch these lines around so they have some sort of pattern. The vowel markings don't show in type, so you have to know that there are lots of kasras, the 'i' sound.

أحبك

هو الليل

والدتي في المستشفى

غدا في لندن


اسمك آن

أنا بعيد عنك

أنا أحبك جدا

Ok, so now there are 2 stanzas, first lines have 2 words each, second and third lines both have 3. Title is addessed to my mother, first stanza is stating facts and second is addressing her again. Neatly, it has her name at the end of the first line of that second stanza. On another laptop I could add a word which looks exactly the same as her name, but which means 'now'. That could go in the same place but on the first stanza. But then it would ruin the 2,3,3 pattern. 

There, all done, for now = aan/ann, oh dear, an arabic/english pun. Now to call and see if she is on the table, under the knife.

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