I Have No Power (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
"I have no power to change youor explain your waysNever believe a man can change a womanThose men are pretenderswho ...
"I have no power to change youor explain your waysNever believe a man can change a womanThose men are pretenderswho ...
A long while, a long long while it seems:The bat-winged figure shaking his robe,The cameras purring.It is Daedalus the tailor, ...
Sunflowers beside the railroad tracks,sunflowers giving back the beauty God gave youto one lonely travelerwho spies you from a train ...
When you are dressed,Nobody imaginesThe worlds hiddenUnder your clothes.(Thus, in the day light,We do not have notionOf the stars that ...
In Spanish he whispers there is no time left.It is the sound of scythes arcing in wheat,the ache of some ...
I.IN the beautiful Castleton Island a mansion of lordly style,Embowered in gardens and lawns, looks over the glimmering bay.In the ...
At times thy image to my mind returns, Aspasia. In the crowded streets it gleams Upon me, for an instant, ...
SHEPHERD Not the blue-fountained Florida hotel, Bell-capped, bellevued, straight-jacketed and decked With chromium palms and a fromage of moon, Not ...
"IOTHERS endure Man's rule: he therefore deems I shall endure it-I, the unconquered Air! Imagines this triumphant strength ...
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyondany experience,your eyes have their silence:in your most frail gesture are things which enclose ...
Nor wert thou only by thy kindred wept,-- Young mother! gentle daughter! cherish'd wife! Deep in her memory France hath ...
Man, the egregious egoist(In mystery the twig is bent)Imagines, by some mental twist,That he alone is sentientOf the intolerable loadThat ...
Blandly mother takes him strolling by railroad and by river --he's the son of the absconded hot rod angel-- and ...
In Spanish he whispers there is no time left. It is the sound of scythes arcing in wheat, the ache ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of ...
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
Man, the egregious egoist (In mystery the twig is bent) Imagines, by some mental twist, That he alone is sentient ...
Is the spider a monster in miniature? His web is a cruel stair, to be sure, Designed artfully, cunningly placed, ...
Elisabeth imagines I've A yellow streak She deems I have no dash and drive, Jest dogoned weak. 'A man should ...
THE DREAM This has nothing to do with war or the end of the world. She dreams there are gray ...
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