Vision Inside The Train

All of a sudden
the wall melts

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And from the sides of the train
wedding processions come into sight
pretty women arrive
singing, dancing,
playing the melodies of a reckless guitar
A water brook flows
on whose banks groves swing
In their shade lovers meet
Glasses are passed around
that spin the heads
and the past and future meet
in the passing moment

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poem by Nizar Sartawi
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The Last Whisper

Farewell
lest the cells of feelings die
as this moon
will go away
leaving me
for the beasts of the dark
and I've woven for him
from the hymns of my heart
love scarves
that the wind flung on the roads
tattered and bleeding

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Farewell
for my path is long…
long
Its end is the peak of the impossible
And standing here
under the midday sun

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