Dream Arabic Poems

I can hear the voices calling out beneath as they plunge further into the deep, a large body of water swirling around them like quicksand...

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A view of the ocean of print

On the night sky over Australia, among thousands of stars
the dog of hell appeared, killing the Aboriginal men
but a...

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ALONE IN THE DARK
i stand alone in the dark hoping we're never apart i hold a rose in my hand 
wishing you were my only...

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THERE IS NO TOMORROW

Would you do it the same way again - if you knew the ending back when
Was love worth the heartache and pain...

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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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I’ve taught you well my young elder. The chosen path of the light was handed to you in a gift of sight as I gave...

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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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"The 80's,90's and Boom boxes"
Weird sounds keep playing
On this old stereo from the 80's
Today its "The beatles",tomorrow "Elvis Presley" and guess who it is now?...

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Bazaar
 

The nights’ chest opens up -
strings of illusions
rattle in palms
the knowing buyers haggle
for a dream
while the fascinated women
try on 
toles of princesses or odalisques.
In...

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Arabesque


Dressing up the evenings’ shoulders
shawls of white silk bloom
enticements,
evenings on silk shoulders
making up stories behind the shadows,
through pomegranates of word the step is the story’s...

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(for Scarlets of the world)

Scarlet was born in a house of ill repute.
She learnt early how to use lipsticks, and
Dreams never visited her.

Enslaved by carnivorous...

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2am

In a lost world
vineyards doze
	      fatigued anticipation
of the next poem
or next breath

Until then
I breathe for you
my brother

I breathe and dream
as...

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Yesterday I had a dream
I was lost, feeling thirst, alone
Wandering in a barred desert
While the curtain of the night fell upon me…

I had no destination,...

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P.S. the trick KEY to reading my style poetry is
normal voice / Mild Voice \ LOUD VOICE
a tap'in Clap'in SNAP"IN neat Beat my Treat
Hip Hop...

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