Allah Voice Poems

My dear child
To the evils of man,
I don't have any defense for them
I only created him to go forth
And they've done so ignoring my guidance...

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S ick of scary screams,
C ausing guilty streams.
A lone and anxious about past,
R emorse of misdeeds snared me at last.
E very sin has a reward,
D...

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Is there any place for underworld in islamic state?
Why acts of barbarism are common in Pakistan?
Does the word Islam mean peace or submission?
How angels are...

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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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I don’t believe in Jesus,
I don’t believe in Buddha,
I don’t believe in Allah,
I don’t believe in Zeus

I don’t believe in Fairy Tales,
I don’t believe in...

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Grace and mercy
I shall ever implore
as my soul
yields to boundless passions
crosses lines
and in dire straits
found lost.
The Hand of God
I shall ever beseech
to touch my heart
turn...

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Small Voice

Inside. 
I am changing. 
It happened. 
I don’t want it too. 
It was a mistake. 

My heart is racing, I checked the stick. 
Yes,...

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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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illanelle: Whose voice so insistent and so early to whine

(I have just found a poem I wrote three days before I was tossed up
and knocked...

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Words For Those With No Voice

For every pair of shoes
All the burnt bones and woes
In the millions, in the mud
All died alone

Starving of food and...

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When the heart is full of the universe
And become eye waterfall doesn ^ t stay
And tear place like a river
They are heavier afternoon
Do not know...

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THE ANNIHILATION OF UKRAINIANS
Kyrie was struggling to overcome barriers of demarcation.
“Holodomor” she was facing.
This artificial famine was brutally taking Ukrainians lives.
In nineteen hundred and twenty-nine,...

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Sometimes when thou feels crushed from within
Thou would want to share the sin
On sharing thou may not be satisfied with what thou got
So thou would...

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Imagine a king who has many
Servants staying at his palace
It would make no sense at all if those
Servants do not fulfill their purpose


Those servants were...

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A God who is not a human
Not a soul or created thing
A God who always hears and sees
Yet we cannot hear or see Him


A God...

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