Grain of Beauty - Mansour M'henni

Hello! Grain of beauty

Waking at the fountain

Filled with the valley

Splitting the plain

Hello grain of beauty

Hello caressing footprint

Teasing and enchanted

On the hillside

 

Hello grain of beauty

Greedy for my verses

Filled with pleasure

Full of love and eloquence

 

Hello grain of beauty

Hello plural ink

Making us relate

Your eternal history

 

Beauty awakening

To the smell of my verses

To the shade of my trellis

And of my various wishes

Beauty ennobling

All beauty of things

Adorning and filling

All mirrors of roses

 

I wait for your beauty

With which my glass runs over

In its eternity

To recall my verses

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Mansour M'henni (born 1950) Tunisia

Translated from the French by Keith Bosley

Source: Banipal No. 39, 2010