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Genre: Poetry
There is a wait at Heaven’s gate
By: Niels Hav on: Monday 29 January 2024 - Genre: Poetry
Antisemitism..., islamophobia.... Please send some good news if you have any. All the dead must enter through the same door. Do you think God is a racist? Death does not distinguish betwee...
An Elusion of Roses by Lamia Abbas Amara
By: Mike Maggio on: Sunday 28 January 2024 - Genre: Poetry
If I could capture this elusion of roses in a snapshot, a recording If it could be etched permanently upon my eyes not left to sink into mute memory like hushed tombs in ancient cemeteries...
The Infuriated
By: Nizar Qabbani on: Sunday 14 January 2024 - Genre: Poetry
Painting by Ismail Shammout Oh students of Gaza teach us from among you for we have forgotten teach us how to be men -- for our men have become dough. Teach us how between the han...
رومانسية أربع قصائد بقلم منى نوال حلمي
By: Mona Helmy on: Friday 12 January 2024 - Genre: Poetry
1- رومانسية أتعثر دائما فى الرجل الخطأ لأننى امرأة فى منتهى الرومانسية أبدأ بكأس تطفئ طول الظمأ وأنتهى مثل جريدة قديمة منسية 2 - لست غاضبة منك صدقنى .. أنا لست غاضبة...
Innocents without a land
By: Francesco Favetta on: Saturday 9 December 2023 - Genre: Poetry
Where is Peace in the long flowing river bringing in the waters in the womb wet from war trails of blood and mourning. I am still the desperate roots of innocents without a land...
The Sphinx By John Heath-Stubbs (1918-2006)
By: Hassan Hegazy on: Tuesday 5 December 2023 - Genre: Poetry
It is not feminine: this crouching cat – beast kneading a vacant temple between its claws – Napoleon and the rest Can fire their guns in its face. In the vicinity Of the...
Paper
By: Hassan Hegazy on: Sunday 26 November 2023 - Genre: Poetry
ورقْ ورقْ ورقْ مشاعرٌ يقتلها الأرقْ دماءٌ تسيلُ من الشفقْ نسطرها وتسطرنا لتنسابَ كما اتُفِقْ تجري المقاديرُ عبرَ الصفحاتِ مداد ٌ ومحبرة ٌ...
Setbacks
By: Germain Droogenbroodt on: Thursday 16 November 2023 - Genre: Poetry
"There are setbacks in life, so fierce, I don't know anymore!" César Vallejo There are days in life so roofless and gray that in their own sadness they threaten t...
رحيل أكتوبر اربع قصائد لمنى نوال حلمي
By: Mona Helmy on: Wednesday 15 November 2023 - Genre: Poetry
رحيل أكتوبر رحل أكتوبر عن عالمى فات على خير أو ربما ليس خيرا لا أدرى أكتوبر .. الشهر العاشر يأبى الا أن يعتصرنى بالنزف فيه وُلد " غاندى " وأمى " نوال " قُتل " جيفارا...
A Love Song
By: Azza Elwakeel on: Thursday 2 November 2023 - Genre: Poetry
A love song needs A happy heart that can sing Ready to drift with the lyrics Follow the rhythm A love song needs a heart That can embrace the warm sun Dance under the stars Fly wi...
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