Lonely Arabic Poems

Broken by miseries of life
I became nib of pen
People call me "poet"

In puzzles of night
i spill my pain over the lonely pages

I find my sumptuous...

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Ruth
Whose mudhouse is in silent dale?
Who liveth in lane so desolate?
Is this the house of saddest Ruth?
From madding world thus isolate
 
Oh I've seen her...

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Across an azure sky
 i trailed lonely as clouds
Lost and broken
you unlocked my handcuffs
you are the love,you are the lover

In the ambiguity of reverberence and...

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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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Mirror
by Kajal Ahmad, a Kurdish poet
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

My era's obscuring mirror
shattered
because it magnified the small
and made the great seem insignificant.
Dictators and monsters...

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Waiting for a brisk autumn wind
swept away the heat wave
Put out the fire-like light day after day
It roams the city as cheap love
 It drills...

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I


I see you wearing your green hijab.
Looking mysterious as the desert under the red sun
And I start to tremble with joy. If you only knew…
As...

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Haiku poems 


1-

The window is open,
Lace curtains
danced newly.

2-

At  the morning
In House Courtyard
The almond  tree
witnessed on a woman hitted .

3-
The rains
will not wash
a sadness...

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The Big House  

I could not live in a house with many people
Voices at all hour of the day no privacy the precious moment...

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I first cried in your arms
Even though I was barely alive
I knew that I would never see harm
As long as I am in your embrace...

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She was beautiful, unlike any other
She stood high above the ground, shining with bright colours
Perhaps,
Had she grown somewhere else
People would line up to take in...

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The Old Orphan 
           here he came in need of love 
   ...

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