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I Have No Power

"I have no power to change you

or explain your ways

Never believe a man can change a woman

Those men are pretenders

who think

that they created woman

from one of their ribs

Woman does not emerge from a man's rib's, not ever,

by Nizar Qabbani

The Epic Of Sadness

Your love taught me to grieve

and I have been in need, for centuries

a woman to make me grieve

for a woman, to cry upon her arms

like a sparrow

for a woman to gather my pieces

like shards of broken crystal

Your love has taught me, my lady, the worst habits

by Nizar Qabbani

The Fortune Teller

She sat with fear in her eyes

Contemplating the upturned cup

She said "Do not be sad, my son

You are destined to fall in love"

My son, Who sacrifices himself for his beloved,

Is a martyr

For long have I studied fortune-tellingBut never have I read a cup similar to yoursFor long have I studied fortune-tellingBut never have I seen sorrows similar to yoursYou are predestined to sail foreverSail-less, on the sea of loveYour life is forever destinedTo be a book of tearsAnd be imprisonedBetween water and fire

by Nizar Qabbani

Words

He lets me listen, when he moves me,

Words are not like other words

He takes me, from under my arms

He plants me, in a distant cloud

And the black rain in my eyes

Falls in torrents, torrents

He carries me with him, he carries me

To an evening of perfumed balconies

by Nizar Qabbani

Verse

Friends

The old word is dead.

The old books are dead.

Our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead.

Dead is the mind that led to defeat.

Our poetry has gone sour.

by Nizar Qabbani

Love Compared

I do not resemble your other lovers, my lady

should another give you a cloud

I give you rain

Should he give you a lantern, I

will give you the moon

Should he give you a branch

I will give you the trees

And if another gives you a ship

by Nizar Qabbani

Letter From Under The Sea

If you are my friend...

Help me...to leave you

Or if you are my lover...

Help me...so I can be healed of you...

If I knew....

that the ocean is very deep...I would not have swam...

If I knew...how I would end,

I would not have began

by Nizar Qabbani

When I Love You

When I love you

A new language springs up,

New cities, new countries discovered.

The hours breathe like puppies,

Wheat grows between the pages of books,

Birds fly from your eyes with tiding of honey,

Caravans ride from your breasts carrying Indian herbs,

The mangoes fall all around, the forests catch fire

by Nizar Qabbani

Light Is More Important Than The Lantern

Light is more important than the lantern,

The poem more important than the notebook,

And the kiss more important than the lips.

My letters to you

Are greater and more important than both of us.

They are the only documents

Where people will discover

Your beauty

by Nizar Qabbani

We Are Accused Of Terrorism

We are accused of terrorism

If we dare to write about the remains of a homeland

That is scattered in pieces and in decay

In decadence and disarray

About a homeland that is searching for a place

And about a nation that no longer has a face

About a homeland that has nothing left of its great ancient verse

But that of wailing and eulogy

by Nizar Qabbani

A Brief Love Letter

My darling, I have much to say

Where o precious one shall I begin ?

All that is in you is princely

O you who makes of my words through their meaning

Cocoons of silk

These are my songs and this is me

This short book contains us

Tomorrow when I return its pages

by Nizar Qabbani

"your body is my map"

raise me more love… raise me

my prettiest fits of madness

O’ dagger’s journey… in my flesh

and knife’s plunge…

sink me further my lady…

the sea calls me

add to me more death …

perhaps as death slays me… I’m revived

by Nizar Qabbani