Child Arabic Poems

If you tell me what you need we can  work out a plausible deal, if you tell  me what you want we can...

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Alexandria, Egypt is well known for being the city where Cleopatra once ruled her people and both she and her famous lover, Mark Anthony met...

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hand on heart do you believe in the truth?
honesty, love and in God absolute?
do you speak for freedom and for fairness?
to respect a human and...

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Sputnik and other vaccines 

The pandemic is a time when humankind is attacked nations should work together. Instead, it has become
a business propositions.
Who will sell...

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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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Here We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.

Like brick walls braced against...

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Dear Father Abraham,

I Know that Too Much Time has Past, Events Taken, and Choices Made that Forever Changed the Course of History.


I am a Son...

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Let the day perish on which I was born,
    and the night that said,
    ‘A man is conceived.’
 Let...

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Lute

Curved, inviting, light,
it has the look of antique ships,
a galleon bulge of straight-grained woods.
Fretful cat-gut cords
coiled taut by silver screws
above the calibrated neck
conceal a thousand...

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give your tears to time
let them run over my forehead
in waves of goodbyes
like tides of isolation
like this bitter fruit truth

still i wanna be the earth...

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My love, do you still remember me?
The vow  we made under this mango tree
I was younger then while you were old enough
But in my...

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Hatred

eyes with spots
 ears yet dull in hearing
 sullen asps with dull emotions
 viscous long hanging fangs that bite
 dripping blood off side
 eyes with...

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A child
Foaming at the mouth
Dying
Islam crying

Sunni tears
Shia tears
Drowning in each others fears
Off with the masks

Wear your smiles
Give heart and cheerful warmth
Not lectures and verse
Allow us...

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We are so different

I am smart, you are less so
I am a man, you are a woman
I am trump, you are poor
I am beautiful, you...

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Execution 
Shots in the night
The child asked at 
the breakfast table
they hushed him.
It had 
been snowing 
the prisoners camp
was empty
but he saw bodies
on the ground
A...

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