Like USA
Very tolerant
To the dissident heart
Of her own
But very aggressive to posses
My love unconditional
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I stop telling people
And i am a poetOne of my classmatesJust yesterday suspectedIf i could writeAnd those poemsOn the wall were mineOn my faceA colleague once saidShe did not like poetryAll poets are out of headAn uncle does not see meEye to eyeSince the time i told himI started writing againPerhaps he just can’t tolerateA poet from his…
Adam ate
And he wasKicked and thrownBut I ateElevenStill I am hereAnd entertainedTill the monthOf RamadanTo be forgivenOf my wordsAnd deedsEvilBut I wonderThe riverFull of flowing waterErosionAt the both endIn full swingI dropp some bouldersBut it keepsSpreadingThroat and tongueFull of filthy wordsAnd Sour pickleI singSeek pardonPray and praiseAll these thingsBecome nothingBut noiseDuring monthsElevenOverweightWith illegal dietOut of practiceOut…
The level of my awareness drags open the subconscious out,
I feel them foreign, an un intimate, unfriendly animated animal,so I go surreal, the real is beyond the imagination, I seefive legs of an elephant, dancing trees, love sucks like a tickhonesty keeps changing like a freak, the snakes have legsstones creep and crawl, fishes live on land, oceans are full of sand,man with one…
You can not deny His messages
He made them shepherds in their early livesAs they had to guide worse than a sheepPush or pull them, they do the opposite.Prophets tried to guide us in our definite destinationBut we fail to follow and behave like a stubborn sheep.
My dear Damsel,
With letters” hmn ‘’To my proposalIt may be on-lineBut you know I am a manOf promise and oathIf you ask even for funI will go a weekWithout taking a bathIn these hot summer daysBut please, my dear damselDo not reply with ‘’hmn’To my perusal to comeTo the island of sandRecently risen upIn the chest of…
A man sat in front of me
I looked at him and sawHe was engrossed in reading news papersI told him I could make the whole staffInto a three four linesHe supposed to hear me wellYet he did not raise his headHe was searching somethingBut I was to tell himNo one announces to offer moneyAt any street cornersEvery one is sitting tight…
You would cast away your jewelry,
Sell all your bracelets,
And sleep in my eyes.
Translated by B. Frangieh And C. Brown
Submitted by Noele Aabye
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My love is a siege,Is the daring and headstrong.Who, searching sail out to their death.Do not say my love wasA moon.My love is a burst of sparks.
When I love
I possess the earth and everything on itand ride into the sun upon my horse.When I loveI become liquid lightinvisible to the eyeand the poems in my notebooksbecome fields of mimosa and poppy.When I lovethe water gushes from my fingersgrass grows on my tonguewhen I loveI become time outside all time.When I love a womanall…
I conquer the world with words,
verbs, nouns, syntax.I sweep away the beginning of thingsand with a new languagethat has the music of water the message of fireI light the coming ageand stop time in your eyesand wipe away the linethat separatestime from this single moment.
We stood in columns
we ran, breathlessWe scrambled to kissthe shoes of the killers. . . .They stole Jesus the son of Marywhile he was an infant still.They stole from us the memory of the orange treesand the apricots and the mintand the candles in the mosques.In our hands they lefta sardine can called Gazaand a dry bone called…
The face of Qana
and the sea breeze of April…Rains of blood.. and tears..2They entered Qana stepping on our charred bodiesRaising a Nazi flagin the lands of the Southand rehearsing its stormy chaptersHitler cremated them in the gas chambersand they came after him to burn usHitler kicked them out of Eastern Europeand they kicked us out of our lands3They…
Let me find time
that comes unbid.Let me find timeto memorizethis face that risesout of the treesof forgetfulness.Give me the timeto escape this lovethat stops my blood.Let me find timeto recognize your name,my name,and the placewhere I was born.Let me find timeto know where I shall dieand how I will revive, asa bird inside your eyes.Let me find timeto…