Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 11:49:30 +0800
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Wa=EFl_S=2E_Hassan=22?=  <whassan-AT-ilstu.edu>
Subject: Re: the famous poem of mahmoud darwish



More poetry by Darwish and other Palestinian poets is collected in A. 
M. Elmessiri, ed., The Palestinain Wedding: A Bilingual Anthology of 
Contemporary Palestinain Resistance Poetry (Washington, D.C., Three 
Continents Press, 1982). My students loved it!

Wa=EFl

>Saeed,
>
>This is a wonderful poem.  Please tell us where we can find more.
>
>Margaret
>
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>Subject: the famous poem of mahmoud darwish
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>>  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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Saeed,

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

Margaret
 
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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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