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Vision Inside The Train

All of a sudden
the wall melts

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And from the sides of the train
wedding processions come into sight
pretty women arrive
singing, dancing,
playing the melodies of a reckless guitar
A water brook flows
on whose banks groves swing
In their shade lovers meet
Glasses are passed around
that spin the heads
and the past and future meet
in the passing moment

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poem by Nizar Sartawi
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The Last Whisper

Farewell
lest the cells of feelings die
as this moon
will go away
leaving me
for the beasts of the dark
and I've woven for him
from the hymns of my heart
love scarves
that the wind flung on the roads
tattered and bleeding

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Farewell
for my path is long…
long
Its end is the peak of the impossible
And standing here
under the midday sun

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poem by Nizar Sartawi
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Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.

quote by Nizar Qabbani
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Every Time I Kiss You

Every time I kiss you
After a long separation
I feel
I am putting a hurried love letter
In a red mailbox.

Translated by B. Frangieh And C. Brown

Submitted by Noele Aabye

poem by Nizar Qabbani
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Dialogue

Do not say my love was
A ring or a bracelet.
My love is a siege,
Is the daring and headstrong.
Who, searching sail out to their death.

Do not say my love was
A moon.
My love is a burst of sparks.

poem by Nizar Qabbani
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Oh, My Love

Oh, my love
If you were at the level of my madness,
You would cast away your jewelry,
Sell all your bracelets,
And sleep in my eyes.

Translated by B. Frangieh And C. Brown

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poem by Nizar Qabbani
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My Lover Asks Me

My lover asks me:
"What is the difference between me and the sky?"
The difference, my love,
Is that when you laugh,
I forget about the sky.

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poem by Nizar Qabbani
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In The Summer

In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you
Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.

Translated by B. Frangieh And C. Brown

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poem by Nizar Qabbani
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Language

When a man is in love
how can he use old words?
Should a woman
desiring her lover
lie down with
grammarians and linguists?

I said nothing
to the woman I loved
but gathered
love's adjectives into a suitcase
and fled from all languages.

poem by Nizar Qabbani
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Indian

I am the son of a Hindu father,
None other than a Muslim is my mother,
Do I then worry about my Sikh brother,
If he brings a Christian sister-in-law for me?
And if my Buddhist sister weds an Atheist?
Never, because I am an Indian loving everyone

poem by Prem Nizar Hameed
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