Syrian Arabic Curriculum — Grade 6, Semester 1 — Page 53

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

يَقُولُ الشَّاعِرُ سُلَيْمَانُ الْعِيسَى:

The poet Suleiman Al-Issa says:

هَذِهِ الْقُرَى الْمُنْتَشِرَةُ عَلَى السَّاحِلِ وَفِي الْجِبَالِ، عَرَفْتُهَا كُلَّهَا، وَعَرَفَتْنِي وَأَنَا فِي مَطْلَعِ الشَّبَابِ أَحْمِلُ عَلَى كَتِفِي غُرْبَتِي ... أَحْلَامِي وَأُحَاوِلُ أَنْ أَزْرَعَهَا شِعْرًا وَزَجَلًا وَأَفْكَارًا، كُنْتُ أَزُورُهَا مَاشِيًا أُلْقِي تَعَبِي فِي ظِلِّ سِنْدِيَانَةٍ تَحْرُسُ مَشَارِفَ الْقَرْيَةِ، لَا أَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ أَسْتَرْجِعَ الذِّكْرَيَاتِ كُلَّهَا.

I knew all these villages scattered along the coast and in the mountains, and they knew me back when I was in my youth, carrying my estrangement and my dreams on my shoulders, trying to sow them as poetry, folk verse, and ideas. I used to visit them on foot, shedding my fatigue in the shade of an oak tree guarding the village outskirts; I cannot recall every memory.

بَعْضُهَا غَارَ فِي أَعْمَاقِ الذَّاكِرَةِ وَبَعْضُهَا مَا يَزَالُ حَيًّا يَتَوَهَّجُ، لَكِنِّي أُحِسُّ نِدَاءَ الْحَنِينِ يَطُوفُ بِي كُلَّمَا مَرَّتْ بِالْبَالِ أَطْيَافُ ذَلِكَ الزَّمَنِ السَّعِيدِ، وَأَنَا فِي مَطْلَعِ الشَّبَابِ.

Some have sunk into the depths of my memory, while others remain vivid and glowing. Yet, I feel the call of nostalgia surround me whenever the ghosts of that happy time, when I was young, cross my mind.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (22 verbs · 45 nouns)

• قَالَ — to say
• عَرَفَ — to know
• حَمَلَ — to carry
• شَاعِرٌ — poet
• قَرْيَةٌ — village
• سَاحِلٌ — coast