2024-11-26

Poem by Najwan Darwish (Palestine) and Irish transcreation + recording

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by Najwan Darwish

You lie and say
that death is a great delight.
No. Oblivion
is the true delight.

But it, too, is retreating now,
quiet
and evanescent.
© Najwan Darwish. Translation © 2024 by Kareem James Abu-Zeid.
https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2024-08/four-new-poems-by-najwan-darwish-kareem-james-abu-zeid/#

Gan Teideal

Insíonn tú bréag agus deir tú
nach bhfuil sa bhás ach fíor-ghliondar.
Ní hea. Díchuimhne
sin is fíor-ghliondar ann.

Ach is ag cúlú atá sé sin, leis, anois,
go ciúin fáilí
gearrshaolach