Category Archives: Visionary poem

The Journey: a poem الرحيل

This poem, simple as it is, means a lot to me. It is a journey, a kind of spiritual odyssey to the unknown. It features a sea, a moon, lightning, thunder, a boat and a traveller. I rank it among … Continue reading

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Out of the Chrysalis

Sometimes I close my eyes and try to  recollect the person I was before the coming of pain, before my life became an open register of suffering, not my own suffering but the suffering of others, which inevitably took on  … 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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