POEM - SHELLS OF DISPERSION , POETESS - TAGHRID BOU MERHI(LEBANON - BRAZIL)

 SHELLS OF DISPERSION 

TAGHRID BOU MERHI

In my forgotten bag,

I stored my choked voice,

and there is a dream that carries the secret of inspiration.

I imagined you in the mirrors as you roam the horizon,

Searching for the warmth of voices, for a bird and its echo,

And a heartbeat untouched by obscurity.

The burning hole in our depths receives sustenance from the crevice of the unseen,

Mixed with tears, soaked in pain.

You crouch like a stricken one in secret,

Slipping between the shells of dispersion to spill into the saltiness of groans.

And between the embrace of silence and the dark times,

You stand staring,

Collapsing on the paths of bewilderment like a storm toyed with by the wind.

© TAGHRID BOU MERHI - LEBANON - BRASIL

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

TAGHRID BOU MERHI is a Lebanese residing in Brazil, a poet, writer, journalist, and translator. She teaches Arabic language to non-native speakers, holds a degree in law and political science, editor and head of the translation department at various literary newspapers and magazines. Taghrid is responsible for translation in the "Translators Without Borders" team, development trainer at the Sawa Association for Development. Advising on literary translation for the Literary Forum of the Levant and the World Union of Arab Intellectuals. Advisor for literary translation affairs at the Forum of Levantine Writers( Al-Cham). She is a global advisor for poetry on CCTV Chinese TV and an ambassador for the International Organization for Creativity for Peace in London. Taghrid is also Lebanon's ambassador for the International Fellowship for Creativity and Humanities in the UK and for the World Union of Writers and Artists in Portugal. Ambassador for the World Organization for Creativity for Peace in London. Lebanese ambassador in the International Fellowship for Humanitarian Sciences and Creativity, England-London. She is Lebanon's ambassador to the International Cultural Salon Association in Tunisia. Additionally, she serves as the ambassador of Brazil to the American magazine P.L.O.T.S. Taghrid she is member of the prestigious platform of the United Nations World Writers Union WWWU Kazakhstan and ambassador to The Daily Global Nation, Bangladesh. Accredited ambassador to the globally leading Stockholm Project 2023 for poets.

Accredited ambassador to Mirror of Life magazine and Creative Minds magazine.

Accredited ambassador and representative to the Internacional Literary Association Creative Tribune (ILACT) of the German Writers' Union Branch NA, in Brasil. She is an honorary member of the prestigious international organization Angeena.She was named among 50 women memorable North American who left an impact on the history of modern literature.

She writes short stories, poetry, prose, articles(56 articles to date), essays, children stories, diaries, journals, flash fiction and critical studies.

She is proficient in Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and English. She wrote an introduction to 25 books Arabic and internacional. The literary and poetic works of poet Taghrid Bou Merhi have been translated into 48 languages.

She has authored 18 books and three encyclopedias, a translator of 28 books to date,and she participated in more than 60 Arabic books and more than 75 anthology internacional. She has received numerous international awards, including the Nizar Sartawi International Creativity Award in 2021, Naji Numan Award in literature in 2023, and the SahityaPata Kazi Nazrul Islam Memorial Award in 2022. Taghrid has been honored for her journalistic excellence and has won primer place prize such as the "Zheng Nian Cup" 2023. International Peace Medal Award, Peace Award, certificate for Hyperpoem Book (a poetry book publishing 2000 poets) , and an honorary prize from the Global Poetic Brotherhood in Texas, USA, for translating global poetry into Arabic, French, and Italian.

Taghrid has been honored with the International Poet Zhen Xin Award for 2022 and 2023, and was honored with the "World Leaders Award" among 140 global personalities by WORLD GALA, and SAHITO INTERNACIONAL AWARD FOR LITERATURE "WINNERS OF JURY AWARD FOR LITERATURE 2023". She received the Journalistic Excellence Shield from the Nile and Euphrates Paper Magazine in 2022 and 2023. Taghrid has also been recognized with honorary certificates as a journalist from Mubadara Magazine, Mirror of International Life Agency, and Innovators Magazine.International literature award 2024, Dr. Manuel Equihua Estrella. Annual Peace Prize 2024 Dr. Juan Carlos Martinez Chuecas... and more. Her writings are part of several national and international magazines, newspapers, journals and anthologies.