تميم البرغوثي | مع تميم - تقبيل Tamim|Al-Barghouthi|with|Tamim|kissing Tamim Al-Barghouti | With Tamim - Kissing

ذق خمرة الحانيات لا الحان taste|wine|the singers|not|melodies Taste the wine of the sweet melodies, not the tunes

دنانها بسمة وعينان her cups|smile|and eyes Its cups are a smile and two eyes

يبقى إلى يوم الدين شاربها في سكرة he remains|until|day|judgment|drinking it|in|intoxication He will remain, until the Day of Judgment, a drinker of it in ecstasy

وهو غير سكران and he|not|drunk And he is not drunk.

يمنى ويسرى رجلاه في جدل right|and left|his legs|in|struggle His right and left legs are in a tangle.

أو قل هما في الشعار سيفان or|say|they|in|the banner|two swords Or say they are two swords in the banner.

إذا رأى الجمع ظنه رجلاً if|he saw|the group|he thought him|a man When the crowd saw him, they thought he was a man.

والشخص في ناظريه شخصان and the person|in|his eyes|two people And the person in my eyes is two people.

ورثت عن أجدادي ترحلهم I inherited|from|my ancestors|their migration I inherited from my ancestors their wanderlust.

أصنع حيث ارتحلت أوطاني I make|where|I migrated|my homelands I create wherever my homelands have settled.

عناقنا رقعة محررة our embrace|patch|liberated Our embrace is a liberated patch.

حدودها الصدر والذراعان its limits|chest|and arms Its boundaries are the chest and the arms.

لو وضعت كفها على كتفي if|I put|her palm|on|my shoulder If she places her palm on my shoulder.

ينبت من تحتها جناحان it grows|from|beneath it|two wings Wings grow from beneath it.

تطيل عمري بقبلة عرضت it prolongs|my life|with a kiss|I offered It prolongs my life with a kiss offered.

فجاءة من رَوح ورَيحان suddenly|from|spirit|and fragrance Suddenly from spirit and fragrance

فلست أدري من طول قبلتنا so I am not|I know|from|length|our qibla I do not know if it was a long time of our facing

أمرّ يوم أم مر يومان I passed|day|or|I passed|two days Was it one day or two days

والقبلة الحق لا يبين بها and the qibla|true|not|it is clear|by it And the true facing is not clarified by it

أي الحبيبين قبّل الثاني which|the two lovers|kissed|the second Which lover kissed the second

كالريح في الريح لا تميزها like the wind|in|the wind|not|you distinguish it Like the wind in the wind, you cannot distinguish them

لا بخطوط ولا بألوان not|with lines|and not|with colors Neither by lines nor by colors

فاعرف إذا بان من يقبل من so know|when|it became clear|who|kisses|from So know if it is clear who kisses whom

أنهما واحدان لا اثنان that they are|one|not|two They are one, not two.

لا خير في قبلة محايدة not|good|in|kiss|neutral There is no good in a neutral kiss.

لا بعلي ولا بعثمان not|my husband|nor|my husband Neither my husband nor Uthman.

مرت بخديك من هنا وهنا passed|by your cheeks|from|here|and here It passed by your cheeks from here and there.

مدة ما سلم الغريبان duration|not|he surrendered|the two strangers The duration of what the strangers have surrendered.

بل قبلة تغمض العيون لها rather|kiss|she closes|the eyes|for it But a kiss that makes the eyes close.

تحسب إلفيها يستجمان you think|her two companions|they are resting You think they are familiar with it.

حزامها ساعدي يشب بها her belt|my arms|it ignites|with it Its belt is my arm that embraces it.

وكعبها فوق الأرض شبران and her ankle|above|the ground|two spans And her ankle was two spans above the ground.

ثم انضغطنا كأننا ورق الكتاب حيث التقى الغلافان then|we pressed|as if we were|paper|the book|where|they met|the covers Then we were compressed as if we were the pages of a book where the covers meet.

وصدرها في صدري قد امتزجا and her chest|in|my chest|already|they mixed And her chest in my chest had merged.

وذاب ما بيننا القميصان and melted|what|between us|the shirts And what was between us melted the shirts.

من ذاق هذا فلا شكا أبداً whoever|tasted|this|so not|he complained|ever Whoever has tasted this will never complain.

جور ملوك وضيق بلدان oppression|kings|and narrowness|countries The tyranny of kings and the narrowness of lands.

لم يظلم الدهر من أتيح له not|he wronged|fate|whoever|was given|to him Time has not wronged anyone who has been granted this.

هذا الهوى من إنس ومن جان this|passion|from|humans|and from|jinn This passion is from humans and from jinn.

دع الهوى يحيي أو يميت ولا let|passion|it brings to life|or|it kills|and not Let passion revive or kill, and do not

فرق فهذا وذا مريحان difference|this|that|both are comforting differentiate, for this and that are both comforting.

شيئاً فشيئاً يُفني الفتى فإذا something|little by little|it consumes|the young man|so when Little by little, it consumes the young man, and if

لم يُبق شيئاً تخلد الفاني not|it leaves|anything|you endure|the perishable nothing is left, the perishable remains.

كأنه استشهاد بدون دم as if|martyrdom|without|blood It is as if it is a martyrdom without blood.

في خير حرب وخير ميدان in|best|war|and best|battlefield In the best war and the best battlefield.

كم مؤمن طول العشق كفره how many|believer|long|love|his disbelief How many believers have been disbelieved for a long time of love.

وكم هدى كافراً لإيمان and how many|guided|disbeliever|to faith And how many have guided a disbeliever to faith.

وكم تحدى الملوك مبتسماً and how|he challenged|the kings|smiling And how many kings have challenged with a smile

يقول سلطانكم وسلطاني he says|your sultan|and my sultan Saying, your sultan and my sultan

فأي مُلك فاق الهوى سعة so which|kingdom|surpassed|desire|vastness So which kingdom exceeds desire in vastness

أمُلكُ داوود أم سليمان is my kingdom|David|or|Solomon The kingdom of David or Solomon?

أخوض بالعشاق الحروب ولا I engage|with lovers|wars|and not I engage in wars with lovers, and no

بكل شاكي السلاح غضبان with every|complaining|weapon|angry I am angry with every complainant of the weapon

فكلهم قتلى يا أخي ونجوا so all of them|dead|O|my brother|and they escaped For they are all dead, my brother, and they survived

وإنه لا يكون قتلان and indeed|not|it is|killing And there is no such thing as killing.