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Wadih Sa’adeh

Side by side

Mysterious Sky

They found him.
His outstretched hand was blue and flat
like space beneath a swallow\'s wing.
His mouth was slightly open
as though he wished
to sing.

سماء سرية

وَجَدُوهُ
يدُهُ زرقاءُ ومُنْبَسِطَة
كجناحِ وَرْوارٍ
وفمُهُ مفتوحٌ قليلاً
كأنَّهُ كانَ يريدُ
أن يغنِّي.

Wadih Sa’adeh

(Lebanon, 1948)

Born in the village of Shabtin in Northern Lebanon in 1948, Wadih Sa’adah spent his first twelve years in a place where, in his own words, “the people, fields, trees, rocks, birds and animals were one family”. In 1960 he moved to Beirut, and it was around this time that he first turned to poetry celebrating the community in Shabtin he was to leave behind. Then, at the age of fourteen, poetry be...

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Mysterious Sky

They found him.
His outstretched hand was blue and flat
like space beneath a swallow\'s wing.
His mouth was slightly open
as though he wished
to sing.

Mysterious Sky

They found him.
His outstretched hand was blue and flat
like space beneath a swallow\'s wing.
His mouth was slightly open
as though he wished
to sing.