Aicha Bassry - Discord

Live Encounters Arab Women Poets & Writers April 2024

Discord

Autumn that inhabits me

Is the autumn that looks like you

The wounds, themselves, divide us

The same pain brings us together

My poem is the wound and the balm

Your poem is the nightmare and the dream

You are the one who dwells in the memory of the wind

I am the one who lives in the remains of a gone sun

So, how does all this discord come together

Every night in the bed of love?

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Life can solve its mistakes

The dagger that stabbed me

One day

Was damaged by rust.

Thus,

Life spared me the vice of revenge.

© Aicha Bassry

Aicha Bassry is a Moroccan poet, novelist and storyteller. She published many novels and poetry collections. She won the International Prize for the Novel, Kateb Yassin (Algeria 2016) for the novel (Greta Garbo’s Granddaughters), the Simone Landry Prize for Women’s Poetry (Paris 2017) for her Diwan (The Bathers in Thirst), and the Prize for Best Arabic Novel for the year 2018 (Sharjah Exhibition - United Arab Emirates). Her books have been translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian and Turkish. She, also, participated in many Arab and international cultural events (book fairs, festivals and conferences.)