Best Iraqi Poems

Black Iraqi Woman
Written by Faleeha Hassan
Translated from the Arabic by William Hutchins
Shortly before my father died, he whispered to me longingly: “Daughter, treasure this, because it authenticates your heritage to our kinsfolk!” When I accepted this object, I discovered it was a stone with inscriptions...

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I’m in love with an Iraqi girl
And she’s from a Jordanian world
And she lives in a Malaysian town
With her heart of gold

I’m in love with an Iraqi girl
And I need her in my arms to hold
Cause its snowing in New York
And only she can warm...

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Iraqi Aching
Arabic Poem By: Saddam Fahd. Al-Asadi* 
Translated into English By
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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For Iraq I slaughtered the silence in my pen
For Iraq I fended fear off my words 
And for Iraq, I would smother the sun
In the vastness of a sieve, 
And gather the vast...

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IRAQI BLOOD STORM 

helicopters swarm
 red dust like cake flour clings
 panic tastes like bile
 rising crescendo of screams
 sulphur clouds the reasons why...

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If you take Iraqi sand
And you mix it with some water
It will soften like the land
Spilled with blood of sons and daughters..
Now take it in your hand
Hold it gently in the sunlight
It will shapen at command
When the temperature is just right..
Make a place in which...

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