Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 22:38:23 +1300
From: Margaret Trawick <trawick-AT-clear.net.nz>
Subject: Re: the famous poem of mahmoud darwish


Saeed,

This is a wonderful poem.  Please tell us where we can find more.

Margaret
  
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From: saeed urrehman <think-AT-riseup.net>
To: <postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 4:18 PM
Subject: the famous poem of mahmoud darwish


> The Earth is Closing on Us
> Mahmoud Darwish
> 
> The Earth is closing on us
> pushing us through the last passage
> and we tear off our limbs to pass through.
> The Earth is squeezing us.
> I wish we were its wheat
> so we could die and live again.
> I wish the Earth was our mother
> so she'd be kind to us.
> 
> I wish we were pictures on the rocks
> for our dreams to carry as mirrors.
> We saw the faces of those who will throw
> our children out of the window of this last space.
> Our star will hang up mirrors.
> Where should we go after the last frontiers ?
> Where should the birds fly after the last sky ?
> Where should the plants sleep after the last breath of air ?
> We will write our names with scarlet steam.
> We will cut off the hand of the song to be finished by our flesh.
> We will die here, here in the last passage.
> Here and here our blood will plant its olive tree.
> 
> 
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