Sailing in the Cities of My Language

A moment of clarity

Windowed in my blood

Unnamed windows

And the heart awoke

Like a being

 Dragging its name

From nothingness

The pulse widened

Reading itself

  For the first time

And pierced me

Like an idea learning

How to become a body

Passed through my veins

Like a wave  

In its secrets 

 I sailed

In the cities

 of my language

Roaded in rhymes

And saw houses 

 Of letters

Shedding

 their rigidity

And doors of pearls

That open 

 Only with the depth

 of meaning

And domes of words

 that gleam

And conceal

 what they say

I declared

 my passion

In a language

 that sparkles

In the seas

of languages

And I saw my words

Swaying with 

the waves of lines

Whenever my ink

called to them

I stood between 

a question

That cannot

 be answered

And a voice

that writes me

Then denies me 

I am not the owner 

of the story

But I am a story

For a lover of letters

Wandered 

 In the gardens 

 of the letter ‘Dhad’

And drew from

its splendor

Baskets of roses.

 Tunisian poet, writer and translator. (Arabic- French- English)- She is Distinguished Senior Professor of French Language and Literature. She is member of the Union of Writers and Journalists in Europe. -Author of her first French poetry collection “Whispers of an Euphoric Heart”, published in France, Algeria, and Tunisia. -She will publish her next second poetry collection in Arabic language entitled “عزف على أوتار الليل” (Playing on the Strings of the Night).

Imène Daoud is preparing a Tunisian-Serbian poetic project. -Recipient of several diplomas and certificates in the fields of national and international culture. In Paris, Algeria and Tunisia. She publishes and writes her poetry in many international cultural magazines. She is also an International Coach of Personal Development and the recipient of several diplomas and certificates in the fields of national and international coaching and human development.