Showing posts with label My Translation of English Poems into Arabic Poetry. Show all posts
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Monday, May 25, 2009

A Cairine Arabic Translation of Langston Hughes's "Question [1]"

- The following is Hughes's poem.

When the old junk man Death
Comes to gather our bodies

And toss them into the sack of oblivion,
I wonder if he will find
The corpse of a multi-millionaire
Worth more pennies of eternity,
Than the black torso of
A Negro cotton-picker?
Langston Hughes
- And here is my Arabic translation.

يا هل ترى .. لما يجينا الموت بذات شخصه العتيد
ياخدنا يرمينا ف شوال الغربة و النسيان بعيييد

هتساوى عنده جتة الغلبان .. جسد هارون رشيد؟
هيساوى بين أسود و أبيض .. أو عبيد شقيوا و سيد؟

مرسى حسن