Water Arabic Poems

A Brisling (King Oscar sardines)

I opened a tin of sardines in olive oil for supper
Headless and nicely packed, except for one
that had a head and...

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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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I can hear the voices calling out beneath as they plunge further into the deep, a large body of water swirling around them like quicksand...

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in the flares of twilight
This gloomy night of patience will burn someday
We are the niche of hope, says the ashes of dawn
For every painful thorn...

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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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Gaza

Ocean’s breakers rule the coastline that guards
The land from sliding into the sea

Shallow water and sand dunes were once lands
The sea dastardly pilfered and demanded....

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If not burned 

 Hellas is burning the Athens is surrounded by invading fires 
 no modern weaponry can stop this brutal onslaught.
 Greece is...

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sunrise awaits for us
the dawn did not rise over the village,
in the eyes of the muses
the dawn promised to wait for us

muses are not like...

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a sweaty mugginess 
                 falls to the scent of...

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Ek kissa 

Long black near to the deep island human struggle for fun gifts for festival 
    Sagar munthan i becoming high...

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I lean in to your space tonight
My hair caresses your face tonight

I started looking for you long ago
I am waiting with grace tonight

I came dressed...

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Let the day perish on which I was born,
    and the night that said,
    ‘A man is conceived.’
 Let...

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I long for freedom,yet my actions crucify me
My cross of sins shy me from redemption
Tell me my friends,if I have left any
Is there a better...

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Red Indians


This afternoon was spent watching an old western movie
it was the usual stuff cavalry in spotless uniforms
sitting on tall horses facing a bunch of...

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The Goldfish Bowl


Once injected with water, sorrow becomes colorless and tasteless
Inside the glass bowl, all lives
only live seven seconds

The same route, again and again --
The...

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