A selection of 10 poems in English by award.winning Moroccan born Israeli poet Mois Benarroch, including the celebrated long poems "The Immigrant´s Lament" and "Self Portrait", as well as the poem "Horses", and 7 others.
Highly successfull series of 10 poems in various languages /
Genre: POETRY / Generalvery often in the Kindle top 10 in middle eastern poetry
This is an ongoing series of poetry samples for Kindle doing very well in 5 languages already (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French and English)
The translator will get a file of poems from which he will choose 10 to translate. The file can be either in Spanish, English or Hebrew.
Horses
And
they will come running
galloping galloping
gray black blue horses
forgotten horses
horses from all the centuries
will come
to crush everything they see
women men and children
and donkeys and foxes and dogs and cats
Come they will Come
horses and more horses
and nobody will be able to stop them
not atomic bombs
nor gases nor chemicals nor viruses
they will be the strongest horses that ever existed
horses that recall all
the injustices made and to be made
and the man will ask
Why in my time
Why in my house
Why my family and my children
and nobody will be able to answer
the blue horses, the celestial horses
those will be the worst
destroying 200 story buildings
destroying tanks and planes
blowing them apart
and the president will calm
and the specialists will analyze
and the televisions will speak
but nothing will help
more and more horses will come
out of nowhere
horses appearing suddenly
in front of people walking on the streets
and you, in bed, you'll look at me
despaired, waiting for rescue
I will look at you and suddenly
I will become
a red horse.
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French
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Already translated.
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German
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Already translated.
Translated by Arno Maierbrugger
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Portuguese
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Already translated.
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Spanish
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Unavailable for translation.
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