Snow Arabic Poems

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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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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Distant Light
by Walid Khazindar
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 

Bitterly cold,
winter clings to the naked trees.

If only you would free
the bright sparrows
from your fingertips
and release...

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Thank you God 
For this glimmering snow
Please God 
Don't keep me slow
Increase my strength
Remove my laments
Undo my pain
Make me Young 
Again!...

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give your tears to time
let them run over my forehead
in waves of goodbyes
like tides of isolation
like this bitter fruit truth

still i wanna be the earth...

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I miss you, beautiful Granada
Your snow-capped Sierra Nevada
Your fountains and sweet sparkling water
Your olive groves at the foot of Nevada
And orange trees all over Granada
Your...

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The passing

It is so long ago; the memory is fuzzy as an old photo,
the room was warm, the coal fire burned lustily
I looked out of...

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Brightly the sun of summer shone, 
Green fields and waving woods upon, 
And soft winds wandered by; 
Above, a sky of purest blue, 
Around, bright...

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Shall I undress my wounds?
Expose to you my darkest closet?
Prey tell who would dress my sorry heart
Inside of me
There is fear
Naked fear
You can not feel
Nor...

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Rigor
 
The pond in the village had a film of ice
and the snow under the elm tree had the aroma of 
roasted nuts and sweet...

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Branches of beans wave most predominantly in stormy weather but heavily prevalent are the many climbing chimps whose antics please the spotted cloud and cause...

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Execution 
Shots in the night
The child asked at 
the breakfast table
they hushed him.
It had 
been snowing 
the prisoners camp
was empty
but he saw bodies
on the ground
A...

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A whispering word is a whispering void cantering over airspace. Clear but unclear. Oh the sheer detectable ideology of the fungal worm. Chitter chatter consume....

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The Seeing Mind 

He had been to Antarctica 
As a tourist
How was it, I asked 
Expecting him going on
About the majesty 
Of the place
He hesitated...

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Black Winter


She hid behind veil
The coldness
Her companion
The umbrella her armor

I died
Years before
Her last kiss
In heaven I adore

I shed tears
At my widows pain
In paradise
I go insanely...

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