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Best Poems Written by Abdullatif Kanafani

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Barren Tree

The rivers run with tears
As oceans bear the rain
Sailors sail through fears
With no promise of terrain

Only to dwell and reach this land
That moans with sorrow and grief
Only to hold on to a lonely hand
The way a tree holds its last leaf

Don’t praise the moments of joy
Because they hardly ever last
Summers are memories to enjoy
When the Autumns come too fast

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The Raging Party

The raging party goes on into the night 
Near the market place 
Where the poor search for a fix
In the royal kingdom of religion 

The girls come and go like birds in the wind
Enjoying the musical calls of black morning
The call of bootlegged bottles 
From the trunks of 1989 
Chevrolet Caprice Classics
The booze they water down 
The brown paste they weave
They rave the gallon hours of secrecy
And shed temporary light 
On the darkness of our conditions
They are our salvation
They are our escape
From the void we have already sunk in
They are the music that rings 
In the background of our emotional decay

We are lost in their bodies
We search for ourselves in their bodies
We search for innocence on their breasts 
We search for truth on their lips
We search for warmth in their buzems 
We search for life in their flowers
We search for love in their hearts
Yet we find nothing at all  

Alas … AHHHHH
The momentary pleasures 
The screams of unheard noise
Echoes of the clackering furniture
In the clubhouses 
Whilst the squad cars 
Whiz by 
Un 
Aware
Blind to the endless possibilities of youth
Blind to lust’s capabilities
In belief that they control 
That which is uncontrollable 
That which is
Passion

After this phase 
We fall silent 
And dim the musical light
And find ourselves
Lost for words
Yet we need none
We share lighters
We play with hair
We bite
We tease 
We are lost in meaningless giggles
We are lost on beds
We are lost on tables
We are lost on roofs
We are lost 
On tongues 
And indifferent to eyes
We are blind to gaze
For they will leave us in the early sunrise
And a new flock will return in the dawns haze

They are friends nonetheless
At least whilst they are here 
And we long for their presence 
For they bring the city to life
In those neon rooms 
Of subculture delicacy
Where the boy explores 
The creativity of divine expression
For the very first time

His body shivers with excitement
And at 4 AM he finds clear passage
Into the rose of a blossoming bird
He sails through the wet waters 
Of fire

This is the place in the old country
Near the worship houses
And the market places 
And the un walkable streets
And the death defying highways
And the floods of rain
Where everything is finally true
And options lay flat on the ground 
For everyone to see 

A secret cave of dancing lights
Far from the public eye 
Where intentions lay 
Naked 
Bare 
Beautiful 

That is 
The raging party 
In the kingdom of religion 
On Friday night

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Deal With the Devil

I have lost to this love 
But I'll bask in splendor 
As I watch from above
The memories to remember 

Why depress my days 
With sorrowful laughter
Why not cherish my ways
Of love forever after 

It takes passion for lust
And it takes lust for passion
To watch love as it rusts
In the most twisted fashion

Love is the corruption
That keeps us warm
Love is the eruption
As lava begins to swarm

Across joyous meadows
With dancing landscapes
Across firy gallows 
And smoky vapes

We visit this lustrous feel
That destroys all in its path
Best not sign loves deal
Lest you can bare it's wrath

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Good Morning

To think is the merciless fight 
And I ponder my hearts insanity 
To awake to the morning light
And your waves of endless trinity

I watched you dead silent 
Entranced by your charm 
My love for you was violent
And all it did was bring harm

If you were a drug 
You'd be the pill
That would wait to
Confirm its kill

You are the remedy 
To all saddening war
You are the songs melody
That sings in my core 

You are the mirage
In the desert sun
You are the death 
From which I run

Finding you in every corner 
Of my minds endless maze
A weary traveling foreigner
Searching for days and for days

Searching for the reason 
As to why my feelings exist
My mind plays with treason
As I struggle not to resist

But I return to my window 
Watching you for days
My eyes red in the glow
Of your sun bright rays

Still I wake every morning
To reach the light you bring
Hesitating to let you inside
So as to hear your light sing

To swing the window curtain 
To question my loves source
Do you love me ... Uncertain
But do I love you of course

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Could I

Could I sink into your breath
And fall silent on your sheets
Could I fulfill my lust for death
Along my hearts lonely streets

Could I play your neck like a violin
On a naked bed of sorrowful regrets
Could I invite you to some bathtub gin
And when its empty smokey cigarettes

To slowly kill what we have left 
We’ll cherish the pain of desire 
In a slumber of passionate rest 
We’ll wake with our hearts for hire

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Must I Wake

I wake up to a symphony 
Of electronic sounds
And forget my dreams 
In there lost and found's

Leaping into my day
With no destination
To go to class, I may 
A war of contemplation

If Somehow if some way 
I managed to reach my class
I'd have no attention to pay
And no prospects to pass

I'd wake from golden thoughts 
Id be stolen from limitless dreams
To watch my inspiration as it rots 
Towards educations demonic beams