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Ben Younes Majen
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YE OLD GREEN GRASS OF ENGLAND
A carpet of green grass
Or a paradise in disguise
That England of many green seasons
Hills, rivers, mountains and streams
Mist, fog and summer harvests
Rainfalls in abundance but no sunshine
Flowerbeds adorn gardens everywhere
Spring celebrating the smell of grass
Whirling out of gardens
Like a magic lantern
Filtering through the darkest forest
Overshadows the grass verge
England is a green island
Where the smell of grass
Hovers around the cities all year around
And cascades into landscapes of bright green
That's nature's favourite colour.
Enhanced by the exquisite English weather…
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Biography:
Ben Younes Majen was born in 1946 in Oujda, Eastern Morocco. In 1968 he left Morocco for France as a contracted manual worker. He then moved from Paris to London in 1970, where he is currently living and working for the British Library in the Arabic and Turkish Section. B.Y. Majen has published nine collections of poetry. He writes in Arabic, French and English. He holds a MA in translation studies from the University of Westminster in London. Prize Winner 2006 of Naji Naaman’s Honour Prize for Complete Works, for his Arabic-written Hatta Yahda’al Ghubar. Gambits in Silent Corridors is his last published collection of poetry. Learn more about the poet on his personal site www.majen.org
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Ben Younes Majen (England) (04/02/2008)
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