Lost 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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The phone rang it was Alfred, the man most likely to be my father if he confessed the relationship he had with 
Olga, the dancer...

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Libya, the endless tragedy 


A shower, first thing at daybreak, washing away the night's excesses stalking the bleak corridors of the nether world and the...

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Plantin' the Garlic and the Potatoes
I can only Hope in the Heirloom Tomatoes

The Daisies push up well past the Day
With Evan Porter sleepin' outside in...

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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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Seems like the older I get
The younger I grow
Finding it hard to keep
My ducks in a row
Yes i see the fork in the road
Don't ask...

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The disgrace 

So, it is coming to an end
and the lesson that will not be learned is this:
the occupied people will not love the occupier.
The...

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~ your power and money you protect assiduously are not yours, but somebody else’s belongs

~ to those that stay bend in front of the sewing...

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we tremble daily from word to word,
we seek meaning in the solidarity of sentences,
when the verb "was" freezes the words in immortality,
we get lost on...

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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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Falluja

Who can forget this place?
When the American moved in, they shot 
anything that moved,
families at the dinner table and women
hanging up washing.
A badly wounded enemy,...

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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 tragedy of 1948 

Israel declared statehood the west was happy
the Jews had suffered much and deserved a state
the fact that 700 thousand Palestinians lost...

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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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