I conquer the world with words,conquer the mother tongue,verbs, nouns, syntax
I sweep away the beginning of thingsand with a new languagethat has the music of water the message of fireI light the coming ageand stop time in your eyesand wipe a...
In the summerI stretch out on the
And think of
Had I told the
What I felt for you,
Do not say my love wasA ring or a bracelet
My love is a siege,
Is the daring and headstrong
Who, searching sail out to their death
We are accused of terrorism:if we defended rose and womanand the mighty the blueness of sky
A dominion
nothing left therein
No water, no air
I wept until my tears were dryI prayed until the candles flickeredI knelt until the floor creakedI asked about Mohammed and
Oh Jerusalem, the fragrance of
The shortest path between earth and
Oh Jerusalem, the citadel of lawsA beauti...
My voice rings out, this time, from
It rings out from the house of my mother and
In Sham
The geography of my body changes
"I have no power to change youor explain your
Never believe a man can change a
Those men are pretenderswho thinkthat they created womanfrom one of their
Woman does not emerge from a man's rib's, not ever,it's he who emerges fro...
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 narcot...
Every time I kiss
After a long separationI feelI am putting a hurried love
In a red mailbox
Translated by B
My darling,
I have much to
Where o precious one shall I begin
All that is in you is princelyO you who makes of my words through their
And of me say the fools:
I entered the lodges of women And never left
And they call for my hanging,
Because about the matters of my beloved I, poetry, compose
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 stre...