FETHI SASSI

FETHI SASSI

A Small Ant

As time goes on , I don’t desire anything

I‘m man with a bad temper ,

I don’t want anything.

But my strange desires don’t resemble any other desire,

For example, sleeping with all the women of the universe at once

Or to sleep with an ant

Yes …. A small ant

Seeing her since the morning in front of her hole

I enter her bedroom; carefully arrange her little house with her

Help her to carry the crumbs into the kitchen

It is enough for me that she is elegant, and she has soft braids

She love poetry and red nights

And she excites me when she plays under my bed, and she carries my

poor words to the nearest poem

And she sleeps under my impossible dreams

I Fill Up My Pocket With Stars

O ; cloud …

Which seating alone high in the sky

I’ll tell all the moons, not to let you change your plaits’ colour

So I can hide the night on your eyebrows

Take me

Take me, so I don’t fall like the dust

Like a painter threw a rainbow in the edge of the wind

To ascent to you stealthily

Filling up my pocket with stars.

An Unfinished Moon Cycle

Do you know?

I’ll go back to the beginning of the line to learn the alphabets of counting blessings in the night of timing

I’ll rearrange the twilight according to the language of colors, run away from the seriousness of what we are going to talk about next…

Start just like that… no pain in the water could disclose what has been resident in names of the dice list.

That’s why I told you to leave everything in its right place, we would think to change the rituals of darkness and live in the distress of places. You are like a face from the unknown… an unfinished moon cycle

Still flirting with jasmines in its kingdom… and your silence is its perplexed names… Wherever you go away, alone, under the tree of the wind, you rip the sun above so your night won’t yawn before sleeping, drowning in the laziness of the words. So don’t utter a word… I was the lady of names… I was transparent in the absence.

Because after you left, the dolls of the night haven’t met and my poems slept in the nothingness.

FETHI SASSI

FETHI SASSI: He is a Tunisian poet. Born in 1.6.1962, Nabul, Tunisia. He is a writer of prose poetry, short poems and haiku. He is a translator of all his poems to English and for others great poets. He is a member of Tunisian Writers’ Union and Literature Club of Sousse. He has published six books on poetry.