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Genre: Poetry
NIAGARA FALLS, AFTER GROUND ZERO
By: D. H. Melhem on: Saturday 25 October 2003 - Genre: Poetry
NIAGARA FALLS, AFTER GROUND ZERO Thundering past green islands a hundred fifty feet into the gorge, river runs over hard dolomite limestone and layers of dolomite and shale, runs as it ha...
JAPANESE MAPLE BEFORE WINTER
By: D. H. Melhem on: Saturday 25 October 2003 - Genre: Poetry
JAPANESE MAPLE BEFORE WINTER Bleeds its leaves in a circle. Four iron fan chairs backs turned attend a round slate table. Grass rake claws the stain. Minutes (or years) fall meas...
Sufi Poetry
By: Editor on: Monday 1 September 2003 - Genre: Poetry
"The very essence of Sufism is poetry, and the Eastern Mystics are never tired of expatiating on the 'Ishq or "love to God," which is the one distinguishing features of Sufi mystici...
قالولي بتحب مصر فقلت مش عارف
By: Tamim Barghouti on: Monday 26 May 2003 - Genre: Poetry
تميم البرغوثي، عمان، 1 إبريل 2003 للشاعر تميم البرغوثي الذي رحلته السلطات المصرية إلى الأردن بعد اعتقاله في مظاهرات الغضب ضد العدوان الأمريكي على الشعب العراقي تميم نجل الشاعر الفلسط...
Carte d'identite
By: Mahmoud Darwish on: Tuesday 1 April 2003 - Genre: Poetry
Enregistre ! Je suis un arabe et ma carte d’identité est le numéro cinquante mille J’ai huit enfants et le neuvième viendra après l’été...
A State of Siege
By: Ramzi Amine on: Tuesday 1 April 2003 - Genre: Poetry
Here, where the hills slope before the sunset and the chasm of time near gardens whose shades have been cast aside we do what prisoners do we do what the jobless do we sow hope In a land where...
عابرون في كلام عابر
By: Mahmoud Darwish on: Tuesday 1 April 2003 - Genre: Poetry
شعر محمود درويش ايها المارون في الكلمات العابرة احملوا أسمائكم وانصرفوا وأسحبوا ساعاتكم من وقتنا ،و أنصرفوا وخذوا ما شئتم من زرقة البحر و رمل الذاكرة و خذوا ما شئتم من صور،كي تعرفوا انكم لن تعرفوا...
Etat de Siege
By: Mahmoud Darwish on: Tuesday 1 April 2003 - Genre: Poetry
UN POÈME INÉDIT DE MAHMOUD DARWICH. RAMALLAH, JANVIER 2002 Source: LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE | AVRIL 2002 | Pages 24 et 25 Traduit de l'arabe (Palestine) par Saloua Ben Abda...
From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
By: Omar Khayam on: Wednesday 1 August 2001 - Genre: Poetry
From the rubaiyyat of Omar Khaiyyam translated by Edward Fitzgerald 1. AWAKE! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And...
Three Poems by Nizar Qabbani
By: Nizar Qabbani on: Friday 1 June 2001 - Genre: Poetry
Love Compared I do not resemble your other lovers, my lady should another give you a cloud I give you rain Should he give you a lantern, I will give you the moon Should he give you a branch I...
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