Poems by Nizar Qabbani
Jerusalem
... You are the shady oasis passed by the Prophet ...
Letter From Under The Sea
... teach me... how to cut the roots of your love from the depths ...
A Damascene Moon
... Worshipped beauty, they dissolved it, and they melted away ...
The Wrathful
... . And expel The opium from our heads ...
Clarification To My Poetry-Readers
... And purity. I will write of my beloveds matters ...
The Face Of Qana
... [Why not?] and Banu Adnan dropping their trousers to their knees ...
The Epic Of Sadness
... and I dreamt that I would kidnap her like a knight&emsp ...
I Have No Power
... you are the Bedouin woman who went with all the tribes ...