Autumn Allah Poems

O lord, deep sorrows weigh on my heart, 

You created me, 

Where shall I go? 

Without you, To whom would I share my sorrows, 

I...

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Spilling myself with an ink-soaked feather
pages cocooned by mahogany leather,
eroded and weathered

“Damn my eyes”
“My deeds unjustified”

Perusing prose to anesthetize my pain
my windowpane dripping with drops...

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Dust

Life oh life look I'm failing
Send past days so I can see them
Round and round the world bewailing
Soul divinist let you free them
And I vow...

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Honestly, I wasn't fine,
I told a lie.
I knew you won't stand the veracious
Of my suffering, that's why I lied.
Many lies I've told;
I said that I'm...

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if
we were a little closer to each other you would say we were born in japan
and the japanese inspired their philosophy from us,
you, flawed beauty,...

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On site of this forgotten Babylon
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in this annihilated place
What strange creature’s kin
to inhuman race
Dwell deep in antediluvian hells 
Uncanny...

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Greetings to Muhammad ??? ???? ???? ????
Wherever you write his name
Plz write my greetings to him
Where you mention my name
Plz write me as slave to...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Mahmoud Darwish English Translations of Arabic Poems



Palestine
by Mahmoud Darwish
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

This land gives us
all that makes life worthwhile:
April's blushing advances,
the aroma of...

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The wind, ruthlessly, has long been scattering gold through the streets.
Tons and tons of gold.
The air, your hands, and your lips smell like roasted chestnuts.
The...

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Oh the days ,where uncertainty fears
Now a golden crops field I will make over your chest
thousands mile long that the row ,
So need not it...

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queried a flower ,
wilting in autumn shower,
“What purpose was life?”
Said God through wind whispering, 
 “Each a breath of my being!”



Date 22/02/2020
Let the Pens Flow...

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Cain Reversal II

The blood must be re-claimed from the soil

With the heavy bodies bent with lust and toil
Each rivening day strifing the rule of the...

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You Lie

No.
I tell you what you want to hear. 
Sometimes when I do not, 
mostly when I do not, 
always when I do not, 
you...

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Today is Enough

The morning came early. 
In fact I was up all night. 
I watched the coming and going…
of the stars.

God’s work ever at hand,...

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