Hey everyone! First off I just wanted to say thank you for all the entries! I really wasn’t expecting that many! Secondly, you all did a fantastic job and had some really great entries! So well done! Finally it is time to announce the winner:

“The lives we live would be incredibly boring if we were free of pain and suffering.”

By @timsevertson

Congrats to timsevertson!!

In my spiritual trance, I saw the bird of passion wandering around me, looking me in the eyes, whispering ethereal words and letters that inspired me…

It was imprinted on a parchment by the water of life

O, love spirit that enlightens my soul, I ask, by the name of the soul creator, to delight my heart in the presence of the true spirit!

I took my pen and wrote on my paper

I was distressed and anxious - and just then a thought crossed my mind, as refreshing as a cloud of light shining through the darkness of my love;

I wrote it on my paper and it shimmered giving me hope and certainty

O, people of the testament, the love inside of you is a divine guidance

My secret and I are delusions

I am guilty

I am thirsty for your benevolence and love, and to meet

a spirit devoted to the essence of my soul

I am bewildered; I see you in the daylight and as a secret lurking in the night

My introversion is a protection and an ascension to the sky.

#Sophia’s_soul

#The_spear_of_love

Translated from Arabic to English by me: Safaa

The Original poem is in Arabic written by Ahmed_Elssayaad

فى غفوتى رأيت طير الشوق يطوف حولى وينظرنى بعيناه

احرف كلمات ما سمعتها من بشر من قبل ألهمنى إياها إلهامآ منقوشه على رق بماء الحياه

يا روح العشق تنير درب روحى أسألك بالذى خلق الارواح

إن تبشرنى بروح الروح

اتخذت قلمى وكتبت على اوراقى كنت فى حالة شدة وضاق صدرى واذا بخاطر يمر على وجدانى كسحابه نور فى سماء ليل عشقى نقشتها على ورقى وشعشع نورها البهى منحتنى يقين وآمال

. يا اهل فرقان العشق العشق بكم هداية انى وسرى ضلال مذنب ظمأن اريد ماء ود ووصال نفس قانتة لروح ذاتى قلبى فيكم قد احتار أراكم فى ضياء النهار وسر يسرى فى ليل سرى انطوائى فى وصلكم اتقاء وعروج لقلب السماء

#روح_صوفيا #رمح_العشق #الصياد ١٧/٢/٢٠

Left Hand:

After sweet watercress stew

Taste greater beers

Eat crab bread at bed

Tear dresses as wafers

Caress sweated breasts

Egg greets Dad

Feed bastard babe

Right Hand:

Plop no kin, no puppy in my pool, you hunk o’ junk; plunk no monk, no nymph in my kiln, you puny, oily loon.

No look in him,

No joy in you

No joy in you,

No look in him

You look in ink

Million in link

In oil

In pool

In pill

In pink

No joy in ink

No joy in him

Unhook, look in

No him, join in

we are sad

we are defeated

we are dead

we are brave

we are eager

we are rad

rest

be

freed

we are freed

are we 2

1

are we 2

we

we agreed

2 be 1

see

we dare

2 care

we were

we

dear 1

tears

fears

wear 1

are we 2

1

are we 2

we