Category Archives: Mahmoud Darwish

If you find yourself alone

Posted on November 6, 2024 by Admin

Mahmoud Darwish If you find yourself alone, tell yourself: Exile has altered its features… Wasn’t Abu Tammam afflicted before you when he met himself: ‘You are not you and home is not home…’ Things carry your patriotic feelings for you: … Continue reading →

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Palestine by Mahmoud Darwish

Posted on October 21, 2024 by Admin

This land gives us all that makes life worth living: April’s blushing advances, the aroma of bread at dawn, a woman’s haranguing of men, the poetry of Aeschylus, love’s trembling beginning, moss on a stone mothers dancing on a flute’s … Continue reading →

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I Didn’t Apologise To The Well

Posted on September 29, 2024 by Admin

Mahmoud Darwish I didn’t apologize to the well as I passed by it. I borrowed a cloud from an ancient pine and squeezed it like an orange. I waited for a mythical white deer. I instructed my heart in patience: … Continue reading →

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Passport by Mahmoud Darwish

Posted on July 21, 2024 by Admin

They did not recognize me in the shadows That suck away my color in this Passport And to them my wound was an exhibit For a tourist Who loves to collect photographs They did not recognize me, Ah… Don’t leave … Continue reading →

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Mohammed Al Durra

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Admin

Mahmoud Darwish Mohammed, nestles in the bosom of his father, a bird afraid of the infernal sky: father protect me from the upward flight! My wing is slight for the wind … and the light is black Mohammed, wants to … Continue reading →

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I See What I Want

Posted on February 16, 2024 by Admin

Mahmoud Darwish I see what I want in the farm … right now I see braids of wheat combed by the wind, and I close my eyes This mirage leads to Nihawand, and this calm leads to lapis lazuli I … Continue reading →

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We Walk on the Bridge by Mahmoud Darwish

Posted on January 27, 2024 by Admin

You’re afflicted, like me, with a bird’s journey and this happens in the afternoon, when you say: Take me to the river you foreign man, to the river take me my road upon your banks is long And we listen … Continue reading →

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In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish

Posted on January 24, 2024 by Admin

In Jerusalem, and I mean within the ancient walls, I walk from one epoch to another without a memory to guide me. The prophets over there are sharing the history of the holy … ascending to heaven and returning less … Continue reading →

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I Come From There

Posted on January 18, 2024 by Admin

Mahmoud Darwish I come from there and I have memories Born as mortals are, I have a mother And a house with many windows, I have brothers, friends, And a prison cell with a cold window. Mine is the wave, snatched by sea-gulls, I have my … Continue reading →

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Identity Card

Posted on January 14, 2024 by Admin

By Mahmoud Darwish Write down ! I am an Arab And my identity card number is fifty thousand I have eight children And the ninth will come after a summer Will you be angry? . Write down! I am an … Continue reading →

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