Muhammad Hesham Biography
• Egyptian poet who writes both in Arabic and English.
• He has translated into Arabic poems by Emily Dickinson, William Buttler Yeats, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Paul Eluard, Matsu Basho, and Pablo Neruda.
• In addition to writing and translating poetry, he is a lecturer of English literature at Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.
• About writing poetry, he says: “I write poetry simply because I sometimes have nothing else to say, and because I hate prattle”.
Other passers-by
come,
from where we used to come,
and go into the night.
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In my morning this morning
Who looks at me, in surprise,
From the mirror?
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A night is searching its night:
It is not this darkness
Nor the sombreness of the sea
It is not the slumber of plants
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Not only hands
Words fail the poet too.
From the hidden depths of the soul
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