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"A Man Inside Him a Rainforest" by the poet Joanna Ihsan Ablahad

"A Man Inside Him a Rainforest" by the poet Joanna Ihsan Ablahad

By Arab Canada News

Published: June 21, 2022

When I love a man with a rainforest inside him

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The hair shirt would be dewy if I were present in you

Rather, my name would be dewy if I heard it from you

And where the forest / inside you, the rain agonizes

And where the wilderness / outside you, they disbelieved in the dew

And just as the shepherds wrap themselves in the woolen cloak

You wrap yourself with cold age..

Your sheep roam in the field of my confession, devouring the delicious grass

I try to exchange with you the most delicious wandering

I ask the nymph of poetry to let me slip inside you

She knocks on my forehead with her glassy staff

I fall to the ground.. and the ground is you..

I accept your shoulder, and another satisfaction on my ankle

I force myself to stand in the middle of the humid ocean

I find myself inside a rainforest that the feet of poetry have not reached!

I walk with senses full of wonder and caution at the same time, a poet!

I pass through the tattered dresses of passersby, stuck to the branches of ferns

I greet the dewy plants, secluded in the shade of your affection

I approach your white half - like a freshly split Indian nut -

I pass through the dense thicket called your sorrows, I see it thick on the plateau of your age

I try the swings of your personal opinions,

I trust their ropes tightened by the trees of your thought

I leap over the jump of a responsible monkey for your wit

I befriend a squirrel responsible for your gentleness

Oh sapling of the forest, oh counterpart of the rain

How many inches is the rain measurement with you, if it poured heavily from a cloud with me?!

Then why do your ever-green trees not recognize the greenness from me?!

And your trees continue to tower with magical height,

Until they wrestle my vast horizons..

And the weather in you remains warm throughout the year

Despite my rains falling on you most months of the year

Just because you are a tropical forest at the far end of the Amazon from my memory

A forest soaking in magic!

And raining!

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