Nature Arabic Poems

Plucking my oud's sacral strings
her felt fingers glide across my neck
the goblet drums' frisky clicks
like an oasis nestled in the desert
Persia's striking sonority slices me...

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Salacia

Where two mountains almost meet, there is a canyon 
Of boulders and unfriendly nature, such as thorny bushes
And self-hating trees and among thistles, snakes roam...

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A Poem for the Grey Shrike written on Earth Day 2016

At sunrise while asleep
I was called by a bird tweet
Like a childhood song
So sharp so...

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She was uncomfortable with the whole conversation.
But she decided to open up at last.
I kept silent. I was observing her face.
“Either you or me, is...

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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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English translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"

Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan 
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Enough for me...

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Spring

I was listening to Chopin’s “Spring.”
It was coming back, the spring I saw and felt
when I lived inland in my old cottage.
The flowers of blossoming...

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the butterscotch sun 

melting in cinnamon skies . . .

chocolate mountains


Jan. 25, 2020
for tania kitchin's  'A Nature Themed Haiku with Color' Poetry Contest...

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once upon a human

two kids named
ahmad and stan

each in his world 
loved reading Peter Pan

didn't see it coming
their dreams broken
down by the khazarian plan

they fell...

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Fadwa Tuqan has been called the Grand Dame of Palestinian letters and The Poet of Palestine. These are my translations of Fadwa Tuqan poems originally...

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Restore The Princely States
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Free the Balochs and Kurds!
Sikhs want Khalistan.
Jammu is culturally separate
And so is Kashmir;
And so Ladakh.
(Their religion is different; they sing and speak...

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There are fires a plenty; and then there are fires a few.             ...

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Dimple simple 

Rain train meet the 
Station of hot land 
Brain drain flow 
Glow like mud 
Glass class finish 
Like a fish in the 
Tale...

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The Optimist 
 It will all be alright one day you will see
When we have eradicated greed, economic wars
Seen off people who works against ...

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God is the cardinal creator
He is the generous giver
He can rise a dead to life, being the grantor
He can create a thing that existed never

He...

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