INDEX, GUIDE TO CONTENTS: POETRY IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC, POETIC PROSE, ART, CERAMICS, VIDEOS

Please note that  although I started this blog in November, 2012, some of the entries in it specially those posted in November and December, 2012,  date back  to 2011, the first year of the Revolution.

Also not that this Guide is more or less chronological. starting with the earliest.

I have compiled 2 indexes , more correctly, guides to my blog then decided to itemize the contents  and place them as  lists on top of my blog in order to facilitates navigation through my blog.

1. POEMS IN ENGLISH, including poems inArabic and English combined

 

**Let Love Burn You into Peace

Posted on November 30, 2012

** Cities of Smoke

Posted on November 2012

**Ode to Freedom نشيد الحرية     Arabic and English

Arabic and English

Posted on November 2012

** In Memory of Halafaya: The Bread Massacre

Arabic and English

Posted on December 26, 2012

**A Vision: Dedicated to Syria and the birth to be

Posted on December 22, 2012

** If I Were a Tree in Midwinter

Posted on December 17, 2012

**The Night of Pain, The Night of Sorrow, this ae Nighte

Posted on December 14, 2012

This ae Night is  a ballad

**The Untimely Death of Children

Posted on December 6, 2012

**Lest We Forget

Posted on December 5, 2012

**A Dome of Many Colours

Posted on December 1, 2012

**Death Will Not Find Me An Accomplice

Posted on December 2, 2012

**A Dome of Many Colours

Posted on December 1, 2012

**Life writes us

Posted on January 20, 2013

**The Second Guernica

Posted on January 16, 2013

**The Lost: a poem about a girl dying of cold

Posted on January 12, 2012\

**Happy New Year Syria

Posted on January 1, 2013

**The Lost: a poem about a girl dying of cold

Posted on January 12, 2013by alisariramk mother

**Love creates a garden in the graveyard

Posted on February 18, 2013by alisariram

**Universal Love: on the occasion of Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 14, 2013

**To Syria from an unknown young person:an elegy

Posted on February 11, 2013

**سلام هي سلام هي حتى مطلع الفجر Peace be with Syria until the sun rises

Posted on March 11, 2013        Arabic and English

**Let this rainbow be a covenant between man and man

Posted on April 27, 2013

**Compassion invoked

Posted on May 29, 2013

Am I Dying or Living: Miosaics

Posted on June 23, 2013

**In memoriam: the massacre of Bayda and the slaying of children

Posted on June 5, 2013

**Destruction and the poet: The Garden of Gethseman

Posted on August 12, 2013

**Are they bombing cities or are they bombing our souls: the heroism of annihilating your citizens with Scud missiles

Posted on August 17, 2013by alisariram  Extracts from Cities of Smoke

**Destruction and the poet: The Garden of Gethseman

Posted on August 12, 2013

*The Death of the young is upon me

Posted on September 5, 2013

**A prayer: fly beautiful bird, fly

Posted on October 2, 2013

**The story-teller and the traveller

Posted on October 8, 2013

**As the phoenix rises

Posted on October 11, 2013

**The Death of the young is upon me

Posted on September 5, 2013

**I believe Christ would choose this year to be born in Syria among the ruins of Syria

Posted on December 23, 2013

**Happy New Year Syria

Posted on December 31, 2013

****The Rose and the Nightingale ***

Posted on January 14, 2014

**Poems by the poet

Posted on January 30, 2014

**They have already loved

Posted on January 7, 2014

**They come back with the spring, the good earth sighs and sends them forth in the redness of the anemone.

Posted on March 24, 2014

**The Journey: a poem الرحيل    Arabic and English

Posted on March 25, 2014

**We are the saddest people, we are the tragic people

Posted on June 9, 2014

**Posted on June 11, 2014by alisariram

WE ARE THE SADDEST PEOPLE, WE ARE THE TRAGIC PEOPLE – A POEM FOR SYRIA By Alisar Iram / in My Take / Published by The Why

2. POEMS IN ARABIC

 

**مدن الدخان Posted November 2012 **The Second Guernica

Posted on January 18, 2013

**الضائعون

Posted on January 17, 2013

**The Second Guernica  In Arabic 

Posted on January 18, 2013

**الحب والمدينة المعذبة Love made a garden

Posted on February 20, 2013

**The Lady: Syria السيدة: سوريا

Posted on March 2, 2013

**سلام هي سلام هي حتى مطلع الفجر Peace be with Syria until the sun rises

Posted on March 11, 2013  Arabic and English

**A poem in Arabic by Alisar Iram inspired by Easter: Syria, rise: سوريا قومي

Posted on March 31, 2013

***البلبل والوردة The Nightingale and the Rose ****

Posted on January 17, 2014

**The Journey: a poem الرحيل**

Posted on March 25, 2014

**A poem in Arabic by Alisar Iram inspired by Easter: Syria, rise: سوريا قومي

Posted on April 19, 2014

***

We are the saddest people, we are the tragic people

Posted on June 9, 2014

**WE ARE THE SADDEST PEOPLE, WE ARE THE TRAGIC PEOPLE – A POEM FOR SYRIA By Alisar Iram / in My Take /  The Why

Posted on June 11, 2014by alisariram

**Elegy for the children of Syria: If I call to the children

Posted on July 12, 2014

 

3. IMAGINATIVE AND POETIC THEMES IN PROSE

 

**Descent into the Syrian Hell: an illustrated imaginary journey into the hell of Syria with invocations from world literature

Posted on May 21, 2013

**Out of the Chrysalis

Posted on October 30, 2013

4,  MY ART OF RUINS

 

**The Shadow of Death **Remember me moans the marble the stone the basalt

Posted on December 3, 2012

**Death Stalks the Cities, the Towns and Villages of Syria

Posted on December 3, 2012

**La Pieta

Posted on December 7, 2012

**The Hanging Gardens of Assad حدائق اسد المعلقة

Posted on January 25, 2013

**Does the earth of Syria grow corpses هل تزرع ارض سوريا الجثث؟

Posted on January 23, 2013by alisariram

**Rise rise you pitiful ruins, rise and let there be life

Posted on March 22, 2013

**I bear witness with my art of ruins

Posted on March 19, 2013

**Arches from Aleppo

Posted on April 23, 2013

**The Annihilation of a Cradle of Civilization

Posted on April 22, 2013

**The pillars of Hell

Posted on February 3, 2012

**Taboo…Tabooed حرام….محرم

Posted on May 4, 2013

**My Art of Ruins: an issue of copyright and intellectual and artistic honesty

Posted on June 28, 2013

**Death, death, death stalks the Syrian camps

Posted on December 11, 2013

**Syria: The Lights of the New Year and a prayer, image

Posted on January 3, 2014

**On the Third Anniversary of the Syrian Revolution: images

Posted on March 14, 2014

**To Russia with love: Thank you for Assad, the helicopters and the barrel bombs

Posted on April 29, 2014

5. MY ART AND POETRY BEFORE THE REVOLUTION

 

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**http://alisariramart.wordpress.com/

**The Road to Damascus الطريق الى دمشق

Posted on January 24, 2013

**The Compassionate, the merciful

Posted on February 9, 2013

**Calligraphy

Posted on March 27, 2013

**My art and poetry before the Syrian Revolution

Posted on August 9, 2013

**Art is Civilization and a civilizing discipline: The Angel of the Trumpet

Posted on November 3, 2013

**Devastated Old Aleppo revisited in images: Civilization is diminished

Posted on November 8, 2013

**Remembering my friend and my illumination

Posted on December 18, 2013

**Cosmic Dance: Dervishes whirl in space

Posted on February 2, 2014

**http://alisariramart.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/a-sufi-poem-%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A9/

September 2013

**The Road to Damascus: glass sculpture by Alisar Iram الطريق الى دمشق

Posted on August 16, 2013

***Ladies of Palmyra by Alisar Iram

Posted on June 25, 2014

6. MY CERAMICS: ARCHAEOLOGICAL POTTER

 

 **Leighton House Museum, Sir Richard Burton, Syrian Ceramics, the Syrian Revolution and I

Posted on February 26, 2014

 **The pottery of ancient Tell Halaf, in Syria, and my ceramics

Posted on April 24, 2014

7. OTHER WORKS OF ART on subjects related to the revolution

 

**The Children Of Syria: Deir Al-Asafeer (The Monastery of Birds), a village near Damascus **The Second Anniversary of the Syrian Revolution

Posted on March 15, 2013

**The Magnolia tree, a tree of life, a tree of beauty. I give it to you Syria of the Sorrows

Posted on March 12, 2013

**If you are a maker

Posted on April 24, 2013

**A Welsh sea and a Syrian apricot tree

Posted on May 1, 2013

**Syria will rise again, phoenix-like

Posted on March 26, 2014

8. VIDEOS

**Cities of Smoke

**The Children of Syria http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si69Cjo49AU

Posted on November 28, 2012

**Children of Syria Forgive Us For We Have Sinned

Posted on December, 2012

© Alisar Iram