Dec 2016
Through the moiré windowpane -
By my leaden writing desk -
I saw a host of dark clouds
Hastening to their somber task
Like a herd of frightened sheep
Shrouded ‘neath the callous mask
Of the night - on the way home.
Through the moiré window pane
A question stood in my way again:
What is a cloud that leaves shut
The flask* of an announced rain?
© LazharBouazzi, 30/12/2016
By my leaden writing desk -
I saw a host of dark clouds
Hastening to their somber task
Like a herd of frightened sheep
Shrouded ‘neath the callous mask
Of the night - on the way home.
Through the moiré window pane
A question stood in my way again:
What is a cloud that leaves shut
The flask* of an announced rain?
© LazharBouazzi, 30/12/2016
*The image of the flask is a reworking of the famous cliché in Arabic: "ينزل المطر كأفواه القِرب" "The rain falls like open flasks" (my translation), the equivalent of the cliché in English: "It's raining cats and dogs."
