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 ...
Nizar Qabbani Poems (38 Poems)
I Am With Terrorism (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
We are accused of terrorism:if we defended rose and womanand the mighty verse...and the blueness of sky...A dominion... nothing left ...
The Hasteners (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
The last walls of shame fell,And we rejoiced…And we danced…And we were blessed with the signing of the peace of ...
Verse (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
1FriendsThe old word is dead.The old books are dead.Our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead.Dead is the mind ...
The Face Of Qana (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
The face of QanaPale, like that of Jesusand the sea breeze of April…Rains of blood.. and tears..2They entered Qana stepping ...
Five Letters To My Mother (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
Good morning sweetheart.Good morning my Saint of a sweetheart.It has been two year mothersince the boy has sailedon his mythical ...
The Epic Of Sadness (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
Your love taught me to grieveand I have been in need, for centuriesa woman to make me grievefor a woman, ...
The Wrathful (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
O pupils of Gaza . . .Teach us . . .A little of what you haveFor we have forgotten . ...
Bread, Hashish And Moon (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
When the moon is born in the east,And the white rooftops drift asleepUnder the heaped-up light,People leave their shops and ...
We Are Accused Of Terrorism (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
We are accused of terrorismIf we dare to write about the remains of a homelandThat is scattered in pieces and ...
A Letter From A Stupid Woman (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
(A Letter to a Man)(1)My dear Master,This is a letter from a stupid womanHas a stupid woman before me, written ...
The Fortune Teller (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
She sat with fear in her eyesContemplating the upturned cupShe said "Do not be sad, my sonYou are destined to ...
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 ...
“your body is my map” (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
raise me more love. raise memy prettiest fits of madnessO' dagger's journey. in my fleshand knife's plunge.sink me further my ...
A Lesson In Drawing (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
My son places his paint box in front of meand asks me to draw a bird for him.Into the color ...
Clarification To My Poetry-Readers (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
And of me say the fools:I entered the lodges of womenAnd never left.And they call for my hanging,Because about the ...
Jerusalem (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
I wept until my tears were dryI prayed until the candles flickeredI knelt until the floor creakedI asked about Mohammed ...
Letter From Under The Sea (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
If you are my friend...Help me...to leave youOr if you are my lover...Help me...so I can be healed of you...If ...
Words (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
He lets me listen, when he moves me,Words are not like other wordsHe takes me, from under my armsHe plants ...
A Damascene Moon (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
Green Tunisia, I have come to you as a loverOn my brow, a rose and a bookFor I am the ...
A Brief Love Letter (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
My darling, I have much to sayWhere o precious one shall I begin ?All that is in you is princelyO ...
My Love (Do Not Ask Me) (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
Do not ask me, the name of my loveI fear for you, from the fragrance of perfumecontained in a bottle, ...
When I Love You (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
When I love youA new language springs up,New cities, new countries discovered.The hours breathe like puppies,Wheat grows between the pages ...
Maritime Poem (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
In the blue harbor of your eyesBlow rains of melodious lights,Dizzy suns and sailsPainting their voyage to endlessness.In the blue ...
Sultan (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
If I were promised safety,if I could meet the SultanI would say to him: O my lord the Sultan!my cloak has ...
Barada (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
Barada, oh father of all riversOh, horse that races the daysBe, in our sad history, a prophetWho receives inspiration from ...
When I Love (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
When I loveI feel that I am the king of timeI possess the earth and everything on itand ride into ...
On Entering The Sea (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
Love happened at last,And we entered God's paradise,SlidingUnder the skin of the waterLike fish.We saw the precious pearls of the ...
The Trial (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
The East receives my songs, some praise, some curseTo each of them my gratitude I bearFor I've avenged the blood ...
I Conquer The World With Words (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
I conquer the world with words,conquer the mother tongue,verbs, nouns, syntax.I sweep away the beginning of thingsand with a new ...