Saint Julian Press Poet

Fred LaMotte - Author and Poet

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ANAHATTA

 

There's a heart within your heart:
when this one beats,
that one sings about light.
All your hollow atoms gong.
Your photons echo a golden bell
never struck, without beginning.
This sound must be your Lover
whispering your name.
Why should your flesh be filled with
anything but music?

 

 

آناهاتّا

هناك قلب داخل قلبكِ:

عندما يدق هذا، يغني الآخر أغنية النور.

كل ذراتك الجوفاء تقرع ناقوس الغناء.

وضُويئاتك تردد صوت الجرس الذهبي

الذي لم يُقرع، الجرس الذي لا بداية له.

إنه صوت حبيبكِ

يهمس باسمك.

فكيف يمكن لجسمك أن يمتلئ

بشيء غير الموسيقى؟

 

 

 

 

 

Fred LaMotte

Copyright 2012

 

Translated into Arabic by Dana Chamseddine

 

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Fred LaMotte is an interfaith college chaplain at The Evergreen State College in Olympia WA, as well as an adjunct instructor in World Religions, teaching college courses through distance learning program for deployed military personal. Fred is a Quaker. He has degrees from Yale University and Princeton Theological Seminary.