The Poetry Stash: 15May2024

Travel Tickets by Samih al-Qasim

Today’s poem is “Travel Tickets” by Samih al-Qasim, translated by A.Z. Forman. Here is a link to the translator’s blog site: poems found in translation

Prompts:

1.	Begin with “rifling through my pockets…”
2.	Begin with “I beg you…”
3.	Draft a poem that explores your own death.
4.	Translate a poem from a language other than your native language. To read more about translation, click here.

5. Photo by Fatih Güney via pexels.com. Use the image as a writing prompt.

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