Damascus, What Are You Doing to Me? (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
1My voice rings out, this time, from DamascusIt rings out from the house of my mother and fatherIn Sham. The ...
1My voice rings out, this time, from DamascusIt rings out from the house of my mother and fatherIn Sham. The ...
We are accused of terrorism:if we defended rose and womanand the mighty verse...and the blueness of sky...A dominion... nothing left ...
1FriendsThe old word is dead.The old books are dead.Our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead.Dead is the mind ...
Good morning sweetheart.Good morning my Saint of a sweetheart.It has been two year mothersince the boy has sailedon his mythical ...
Your love taught me to grieveand I have been in need, for centuriesa woman to make me grievefor a woman, ...
(A Letter to a Man)(1)My dear Master,This is a letter from a stupid womanHas a stupid woman before me, written ...
She sat with fear in her eyesContemplating the upturned cupShe said "Do not be sad, my sonYou are destined to ...
"I have no power to change youor explain your waysNever believe a man can change a womanThose men are pretenderswho ...
raise me more love. raise memy prettiest fits of madnessO' dagger's journey. in my fleshand knife's plunge.sink me further my ...
And of me say the fools:I entered the lodges of womenAnd never left.And they call for my hanging,Because about the ...
He lets me listen, when he moves me,Words are not like other wordsHe takes me, from under my armsHe plants ...
When I loveI feel that I am the king of timeI possess the earth and everything on itand ride into ...
The East receives my songs, some praise, some curseTo each of them my gratitude I bearFor I've avenged the blood ...
When a man is in lovehow can he use old words?Should a womandesiring her loverlie down withgrammarians and linguists?I said ...
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