Category Archives: Alisar’s poems
Are they bombing cities or are they bombing our souls: the heroism of annihilating your citizens with Scud missiles
Cities of smoke Smouldering burning Blazing In a configuration Of stone concrete steel And human flesh Cities of rubble debris wreckage Of rubbish and broken homes Pasted with remains With the white bones of children Cities crackling baking … Continue reading
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Am I Dying or Living: Miosaics
This poem is dedicated to Syria, for Syria will rise again I wrote most of this poem some years back. It was then that I started to write long poems in the narrative style, but poems being a different genre … Continue reading
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In memoriam: the massacre of Bayda and the slaying of children
They are there under the trees crying They are there not up the trees laughing Among the apples and the olives because They are there piercing the dominion of death sobbing, Death itself cradling the newborn and the infants … Continue reading
Compassion invoked
Poem from: https://alisariram.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/descent-into-the-hell-of-syria-an-imaginative-journey-into-hell-with-invocations-from-world-literatere/ Compassion Compassion, rise and let your mercy like no mercy Your unimaginable tenderness In the folds of infinite gentleness Enfold this scene of ruin This Limbo of no return. Let love shine Like the sun like the moon … Continue reading
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Descent into the Syrian Hell: an illustrated imaginary journey into the hell of Syria with invocations from world literature
Forward This is an allegorical imaginative journey into the Syrian Hell, created for the Syrians by their rulers with the complicity of the world. The residents of this Hell are mainly the children of Syria; therefore it is a hell … Continue reading
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Ode to Freedom نشيد الحرية
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©Freedom, gouache on paper by Alisar Iram Image: ©Alisar Iram They who are embraced by freedom And touched by its wings of yearning and passion Shall have no peace shall have no home Shall have no…
Posted in Alisar's poems, Art, Freedom, Images, Syria, Syrian Revolution
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Let this rainbow be a covenant between man and man
Let this rainbow be a covenant between man and man: That death will have no dominion That children will not be butchered That their limbs will not be torn from their bodies And be mangled That young girls will not … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar's poems, Peace, Poetry, Reflections, Syria
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A poem in Arabic by Alisar Iram inspired by Easter: Syria, rise: سوريا قومي
سوريا قومي ايلي…ايلي لما شبقتني لقد صلبوه فصلبوا الحب وانشقت السماء وعم الظلام الارض. في الحقول سالت دماء الاطفال ووقفت المريمات متشحات بالسواد يحتضن الاقدام الدامية تحت الاف مؤلفة من الصلبان. ايلي….ايلي لما شبقتني تعالت صرخات شعب مقهور … Continue reading
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