Mont D'or

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‏A poem by

Roba El-Yousif ‎*

‏Translated from the Arabic by

Hikmet Elhadj ‎*

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‏Did your mother

give birth to you

in the pastures,

‏between the feet of a cow?

‏Have she kept you in a wooden box,

‏Fir bark surrounds you?

‏Are you deciding your freshness?

‏Do you regret your softness?

‏Do you repent of your sweetness?

‏Have you ever tasted Mont d'or cheese?

‏Is there any difference between you, ‏originally?

‏Originally,

‏Your heels was it.

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* ‏Roba El-Yousif: ‏poet from Lebanon, ‏graduated from the Faculty of Sciences and Arts, ‏specializing in radio and television. ‏She participated by three stories in the collective book ‎"Square of salt, ‏circle of water". ‏She also participated in the anthology of the group ‎"The Madmen of the Prose Poem", ‏which was published in Cairo, ‏and another expected participation within the project ‎"The Ontology of Mediterranean Poets, ‏in Italian", ‏and another participation in the anthology of ‎"The waves of the Mediterranean". ‏Now, ‏she is preparing to publish her first volume of poetry.

* ‏Hikmet Elhadj, ‏is a poet and translator from Iraq.
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