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I Conquer The World With Words

I Conquer The World With Words

I conquer the world with words,

conquer the mother tongue,

verbs, nouns, syntax.

I sweep away the beginning of things

and with a new language

that has the music of water the message of fire

I light the coming age

and stop time in your eyes

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Five Letters To My Mother

Five Letters To My Mother

Good morning sweetheart.

Good morning my Saint of a sweetheart.

It has been two year mother

since the boy has sailed

on his mythical journey.

Since he hid within his luggage

the green morning of his homeland

and her stars, and her streams,

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Oh, My Love

Oh, My Love

Oh, my love

If you were at the level of my madness,

You would cast away your jewelry,

Sell all your bracelets,

And sleep in my eyes.

Translated by B. Frangieh And C. Brown

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Bread, Hashish And Moon

Bread, Hashish And Moon

When the moon is born in the east,

And the white rooftops drift asleep

Under the heaped-up light,

People leave their shops and march forth in groups

To meet the moon

Carrying bread, and a radio, to the mountaintops,

And their narcotics.

There they buy and sell fantasies

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My Lover Asks Me

My Lover Asks Me

My lover asks me:

"What is the difference between me and the sky?"

The difference, my love,

Is that when you laugh,

I forget about the sky.

Translated by B. Frangieh And C. Brown

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Every Time I Kiss You

Every Time I Kiss You

Every time I kiss you

After a long separation

I feel

I am putting a hurried love letter

In a red mailbox.

Translated by B. Frangieh And C. Brown

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On Entering The Sea

On Entering The Sea

Love happened at last,

And we entered God's paradise,

Sliding

Under the skin of the water

Like fish.

We saw the precious pearls of the sea

And were amazed.

Love happened at last

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem

I wept until my tears were dry

I prayed until the candles flickered

I knelt until the floor creaked

I asked about Mohammed and Christ

Oh Jerusalem, the fragrance of prophets

The shortest path between earth and sky

Oh Jerusalem, the citadel of laws

A beautiful child with fingers charred

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My Love (Do Not Ask Me)

My Love (Do Not Ask Me)

Do not ask me, the name of my love

I fear for you, from the fragrance of perfume

contained in a bottle, if you smashed it,

drowning you, in spilled scent

By God, if you even croaked a letter,

Lilacs would pile up on the paths

Do not look for it here in my chest

I have left it to run with the sunset

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A Lesson In Drawing

A Lesson In Drawing

My son places his paint box in front of me

and asks me to draw a bird for him.

Into the color gray I dip the brush

and draw a square with locks and bars.

Astonishment fills his eyes:

"… But this is a prison, Father,

Don't you know, how to draw a bird?"

And I tell him: "Son, forgive me.

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Language

Language

When a man is in love

how can he use old words?

Should a woman

desiring her lover

lie down with

grammarians and linguists?

I said nothing

to the woman I loved

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The Face Of Qana

The Face Of Qana

The face of Qana

Pale, like that of Jesus

and the sea breeze of April…

Rains of blood.. and tears..

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They entered Qana stepping on our charred bodies

Raising a Nazi flag

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