شتوي Shatwi/Shitwi (Wintry) by Youssef Rakha

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Mariam Ferjani’s “Screen adaptation/reinterpretation of the short poem by Youssef Rakha,” an Egyptian writer and photographer. The description on Vimeo includes a translation, which I’m guessing is by the author:

Woman wants eternity
Man wants heaven
And sometimes, not often
In the meeting of their desires
They become a cloud
And sometimes, even less often
They actually die
Before it rains
So that the world stays dry
And everything is alright

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    […] are others who have been trying their hand at poetry films. Mariam Ferjani made a screen adaptation of the short poem “Shitwi” by Youssef Rakha, which was featured on Moving Poems. Nissmah Roshdy made a popular adaptation of Mahmoud […]

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