Poem - Narcissus & Jasmine Orchard

Narcissus & Jasmine Orchard

Abdallah Gasmi

 

1

 

Alone with the night, I embark a cloud of wild violet

My father, who rode the bronze horse of death, left me

For the cotton stones and snowy mountains

I crawl between crowds of hungry people 

Like a weak mist, I encircle the roads and cry at night on my mother's chest

No wave in my hand 

In my palm hand, a sad willow tree grew 

Alone with the night, I embark a cloud of wild violet

O’ Bulbul that got drenched in the moonlight go and fly away

 

Out of my hands, a storm of orange suns blows 

My eyes are two boats wandering in the ocean

My heart is a cold winter

I used to flow with the pain between the letters and walk to the sea 

I walk and jasmine grows vigorously between my steps 

 

2 

The streets are crowded with lovers' sighs 

O my beloved woman! Let me grow inside of you as a wild herb 

Let me harvest the wheat from your breasts

When the winter comes, I used to take my words to the bar and get drunk from drinking pain 

When I get back to my office, the letters used to whip me   

And the words turned into gallows and the odes into orchards of slat 

When the spring comes, I used to accompany my pen to the old cottages  

And get drunk from drinking pain

When I go back home, the odes used to whip me because I took off my virgin dress

When summer comes, I used to look for an orphaned rain between my beloved’s breasts    

When autumn comes, the blood becomes yellow between my lips 

And the shadow of a God inside me rises so that I may to be sweeter than sugar

 

3

My body is a cold lake and my soul trembles like a bare willow tree 

Uproot the rock out of my ribs! 

Put your perfume in the swamp of memory! 

Bathe in the cavities of heart and construct churches and then pray on the dream carpet as a nun

Play a wild tune 

My eyes are two roses of pearls

My fingers are flocks of wild gazelles running between tragedies

My body is a forest of mist

Like a breeze scented with joy, light the walls of my realm   

Let millions of suns erupt from my stars and dance your favorite dance

So that the bare trees inside me may come to leaf

 

 

 

 

 

Biography of Abdallah Gasmi:

He was born in Beni Khalad, governorate of Nabeul, Tunisia, on 21 September 1967

The demise of his primary education at the Manzal Bouzalfa and secondary Suleiman

And higher in the Faculty of Arts in Manouba, including obtaining a professorship in the Arabic language and literature and then a master and get a master's specialist in Islamic philosophy

He is a senior professor at the Tunisian secondary institutes 

He holds many responsibilities in a number of associations

He was a member of the governing body of the Tunisian Writers Union in charge of branches and clubs and resigned in 2013

Secretary General of the General Union of Tunis Writers 

Prsedent of the assiociation salon culurel creative vision

Holds the key to the Algerian city of Batna on the occasion of the fiftieth independence of Algeria

He was responsible for the general secretary of the Tunisian Writers Union branch in Nabeul before he resigned

Member of the Arab Internet Writers Union

He is the owner of the Tunisian newspaper Al Diar and is currently its editor

He is currently working on Mediterranean Radio Tunisia

Poetry Books: 

  - Travel in language classes

Times of color and body

   Light ports

- Cities of grief

Narcissus and Jasmine Orchard

Arabic poet hallucinations

Tunisian Odyssey

- Has a critical book entitled "Rhetoric of the linguistic object"

One of the most prominent monetary studies published in the Arab periodicals

  The Rhetoric of the Visual Object "A Theoretical Approach to the Study of Visual Distribution in Modern Poetry"

 - Expressive and psychological dimension of rhythm in modern poetry

 - Tunisia a century of poetry: Chebbi is not an orphan and in the forest other trees

 Towards reviewing the rhythmic theory of Arabic poetry

 - In defense of modernity and prose poem

 Readings for some books in Tunisian poetry

 Published many intellectual articles in a number of newspapers and Arab sites in Tunisia and the Arab world of the most prominent articles

- How to cry the demise of my people

- And some other poetic manuscripts

His play entitled "Whirlpool" represented by the Algerian artist Sonia and directed by Iraqi director "Salam al-Sukr" and won many awards

His second play is "Pimp"

Prepared a global encyclopedia of poetry entitled "Jasmine collars and love"

He supervised many literary clubs and he supervised the poetry club of the Union of Tunisian Writers and the literary club of Suleiman.

He published many poems and literary articles in a number of Tunisian and Arab newspapers

He has hundreds of poems, texts and articles published on the Internet all over the world

Member of the most famous literary and cultural forums of Arab and international

- Some of his works were translated into several foreign languages such as Romanian and English

Honored by the number of cultural and national events, the most important of which was awarded to the key to the city of Batna, capital of the Aures in Algeria

 

He prepared a number of international ontologies of poetry, including:

Jasmine and Love Collars (Published)

Antology of Tunisian Poetry and Serbian Poetry (published)

Antology of Tunisian Poetry and Italian Poetry (published)

Antology of Tunisian Poetry and Greek Poetry (in press)

The Anthology of Tunisian Poetry and the Poetry of Montenegro (pending publication)

The Anthology of European Poets (pending publication)

Anthology of African poetry and European poetry (pending publication)

Poets of the Balkans (pending publication)

 

Translated into Arabic and French by thousands of poems on its website specialized in international poetry:

http://thejasmincollors.com/

He won many international awards in Jordan, Algeria, Serbia, Greece and Italy

Honored in a number of countries

He is a human rights activist, and he is a member of the executive office of an international human rights observatory

A list of some of my books

Travel in language classes: Tunisia 2004

Times of color and body: Tunisia 2005

Ports of Light: Tunisia 2008

Cities of grief: Tunisia 2010

The hallucinations of an Arab poet: Tunisia 2012

The play "The Whirlpool": Tunisia 2013

The Garden of Narcissus and Jasmine (4 collections of poetry): Aston House 2014

The Kadra novel: Tunisia 2016

Tunisian Odyssey: 2017

Clusters of dream, love and pain: 2019

More dream, less pain: 2020

Rhetoric of the Linguistic Object: 2019

Bouquets of roses and jasmine: (Arabic and Serbian): 2019

On the same sea: (Arabic and Italian): 2019

The Tunisian Greek Odyssey: (Arabic and Greek) 2020

In the desert rose fires (Serbian) 2021

European women poets: (published on Amazon and Candle): 2019

Harbor of love 1: (Published on Amazon and Candle) 2020

Harbor of love 2: (Published on Amazon and Candle) 2021

Rhythms of Samba and Malouf: (a joint book with the Brazilian poet Machado in Arabic and Portuguese) 2021

Jasmine and love collars: Tunisia 2019

A travel in all language classes (poetry anthology in 8 languages): (Amazon and Candle) 2021

The light of love and pain (an anthology of poetry in the Serbian language): Serbia 2021

The Garden of Narcissus and Jasmine (4 collections of poetry): published in English in European countries "2022

Love Gift: India 2021

My friends: Greece 2021

Tunisian Odyssey: Europe 2022 (in press, it will be distributed in 6 countries)

Candles of Hope: The Global Anthology of a Thousand Poets (10 Parts): 2021

100 roses for 100 friends: (Ready to be published on Amazon soon): 2022

Poets for Peace (published the first part on Amazon and Kandel) 2022

A poem with 50 tongues: (It is a poem of mine that has been translated in 56 languages and published in more than 40 periodicals around the world): ready for publication on Amazon and Candle 2022

Roses from the banks of the Danube 2021

The Epic of Gilgamesh the Tunisian: Coming soon to print

The hallucinations of a world poet: (poetry collection) ready for printing 2022

Jasmine scent: Croatia 2022

Towards a review of the rhythmic theory of Arabic poetry: (a critical book ready for printing) 2021

This is not all of my books, but there is a lot in common: as the book Women, which I co-authored with the Indian poet and doctor Murphy Roshan and published 6 parts of it

Of course, in addition to my particip

ation in more than 76 poetic anthologies in most countries of the world, in addition to the books of global poetic elites, which exceeded 17 books