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Fatiha Morchid

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Despair

By sunset
Her day rises
It no longer matters
Who the person is
That will ride
Her horse

Ready is she
To die

© Translation: 2004, Fatiha Morchid

DESPAIR

© 2002, Fatiha Morchid
From: Ima’aat
Publisher: Dar Attakafah, Casablanca

Fatiha Morchid

Fatiha Morchid

(Morocco, 1958)

Fatiha Morchid was born on March 14, 1958. She received her doctorate in medicine in 1985, and has specialised in pediatery since 1990. Unlike most Moroccan poets, who generally came to poetry from the academic study of literature, Fatiha Morchid came to poetry from science, which is perhaps why she seems free from a certain tendency to conform to academic poetic norms, or to indulge in obscuri...

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Despair

By sunset
Her day rises
It no longer matters
Who the person is
That will ride
Her horse

Ready is she
To die

© 2004, Fatiha Morchid
From: Ima’aat

Despair

By sunset
Her day rises
It no longer matters
Who the person is
That will ride
Her horse

Ready is she
To die

© 2004, Fatiha Morchid

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