Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:24:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Wolf Factory <wolf_factory-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Where is mahmoud darwish on the web?


Is there a web site that contains Darwish poems in
Arabic (or preferably both in Arabic and English)?
W.F.

--- "Waïl_S._Hassan" <whassan-AT-ilstu.edu> wrote:
> 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!
> 
> Waïl
> 
> >Saeed,
> >
> >This is a wonderful poem.  Please tell us where we
> can find more.
> >
> >Margaret
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>       --- from list
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> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >      --- from list
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