Rain Arabic Poems

Rainbow nation

It rained and rained, fine rain but persistent 
mountains dissolved, and rocks turned into sand 
When the rain stopped, a smooth landscape 
of peace and camel dung
Before...

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In the land of Abraham
The soil cries out with blood,
For Cain has killed Abel
Over 30 thousand times

Not content to take
His brother's life,
He takes the lives
Of...

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Inside mound of sand
A red scorpion comes out
As the rain pours in....

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if i am already in your sink
   Why won't you then,let me drink?
       My heart is rusted
...

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The master of the dawn said: - It's strange to be here
on the black lips of the fields, and the evening caught up in between...

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a sweaty mugginess 
                 falls to the scent of...

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The vaccine is here

The day took a long time coming
the night persisted and only moved across the sea
heading for Northern Norway where the night
lasts for...

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Mahmoud Darwish English Translations of Arabic Poems



Palestine
by Mahmoud Darwish
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

This land gives us
all that makes life worthwhile:
April's blushing advances,
the aroma of...

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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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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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They could have ranged together foreever, in just that way
The moment of experience, un-cloaked and with innocent play
In co-creation perfect, when the Lord frequently appeared...

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Such Tenderness
by Michael R. Burch

for the mothers of Gaza

There was, in your touch, such tenderness—as
only the dove on her mildest day has,
when she shelters downed...

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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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I understand the meaning of the dark abyss, and roll around the barrel of the rifle destroy me and vanish, into the cosmos I'll go...

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Longing for a Heavy Rain

From the depths of the earth
arises  a nightmare and sickness
Like the wind, soul lost
Seeking for nothing everywhere

Sea rolls up waves...

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