Category Archives: Poems
الحب والمدينة المعذبة Love made a garden
فوق المدينة المحطَمة المدينة التي تتساقط فوقها القنابل وتعبث فوق البيوت المشتعلة البيوت التي يرقد الاطفال فيها في احضان العدم وقف الحب في فضاء القيامة وصرخ ملتاعا اين الامهات لا امَهات اين الآباء لاآباء بل اين الاخوة والآخوات لااخوة ولا … Continue reading
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The Syrian blitz revisited
Video by Alisar Iram, August 2012 The images below are chosen from recent examples of annihilation. Posted by an activist and edited, blitz 2
Posted in Annihilation, Art, Destruction, Images, Music, Poems, Syria, Syrian Heritage, Syrian people, The Syrian Revolution, Victims
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Universal Love: on the occasion of Valentine’s Day
We were born free to love Free to know Free to seek I Love you man And this pain is but of the rose This pain is but my deathless joy in you. ©Alisar Iram
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To Syria from an unknown young person:an elegy
Mother of the wind and the oak Mother of the rivers, the olives and the rocks Cry for me in my unknown grave And lament the dying of my light. Let your love be peace And let … Continue reading
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Life writes us
We do not write life Life writes us And life publishes us. We do not write the script, Saying to life Here is the scenario, Follow my instructions and produce it. For life is the scribe who pens and … Continue reading
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Syria, myself and Poetry سوريا، الشعر، وأنا
Syria has awakened my poetry and lo and behold I am a poet again. Syria too wakened my Arabic, laid aside because I have spent the greater part of my life in Britain and because I gradually got absorbed in … Continue reading
The Second Guernica
Two explosions wrecked the University of Aleppo on January 15, killing 80 people, most of them students sitting for their exams. The Syrian government as it it usual, blamed the rebels, but the rebels claim they have proof that the government … Continue reading
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الضائعون
(قصة شعرية) في هذه القصة اتخيل فتاة تموت في احد المخيمات بعد ان فقدت احباءها. الزائرة ترمز للانسابية الضائعة من بالباب أغريبة بالباب؟ ادخلي، ادخلي من منا ليس بالغريب في هذا العالم فى هذه الحياة؟ اجلسي على الارض، سيدتي ،لاننا … Continue reading
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The Second Guernica
Two explosions wrecked the University of Aleppo on January 15, killing 80 people, most of them students sitting for their exams. The Syrian government as it it usual, blamed the rebels, but the rebels claim they have proof that the government … Continue reading
Posted in Aleppo, Annihilation, Death, Destruction, Poems, Revolutionaries, Syria, University, Victims
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The Lost: a poem about a girl dying of cold
In this poem, I imagine a Syrian girl in her late teens dying, being the last of her family, after she and her family had witnessed the destruction of their village by the Syrian government war planes, which forced them to flee. … Continue reading
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