Salman Masalha
Salman Masalha DIRGE Smoke pillars clothe the sky, hills will hide behind the haze, fear fills his mind, his pulse is high and his heart is all ablaze. Treading silent on the verge, he envisions in his brain as verses in his spirit surge: a final dirge for distant days, fleeting, long departed, cold,of many nights and griefs unnamed. ...
Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Vivian Eden | Our Lady to Gabriel
RE: the poem of 19 December 2024, “Our Lady of Palestine” (Culture Matters)
Vivian Eden Our Lady to GabrielDear Gabriel R.,I rarely reply to
people I don’t
know
but...
Robert Frost | Fire and Ice
Robert Frost | Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what
I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it
had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for
destruction ice Is also great And would suffice....
Amos Noy|| CYCLAMEN
Amos Noy || CYCLAMEN Wondrously I grew in a little house by a big wood[1]In
a world, far, far away,[2] with no law or angerOn a planet where no
fathers stood. My mother nursed me on milk of wolvesTo be
big, strong and wary of strangers,All of them dangers, and not err in
loves. No cry baby, I never wept against my will.My
mother, the...
Natan Zach || The End of the World
Natan Zach ||The End of the World
translated by Vivian EdenCompletely at random, the world ended.Trade in shares was lively, the weather...
W. H. Auden || Refugee Blues
W. H. Auden ||
Refugee Blues
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions,
some are living in holes:Yet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's
no place for us.Once we had a country and we thought it fair,Look
in the atlas and you'll find it there:We cannot go there now, my dear, we
cannot go there now.In the village churchyard...
Fady Joudah || Two Poems
Fady Joudah ||
Two Poems
Sleeping Trees Between what should and what should not beEverything
is liable to explode. Many timesI was told
who has no land has no sea. My fatherLearned to fly in a dream.
This is the storyOf a sycamore tree he used to climbWhen he was
young to watch the rain. Sometimes it rained so hard it hurt.
...
Vivian Eden || WANDERING JEWS
Vivian Eden ||WANDERING JEWS
Uncle Mendel, who had hair likeDavid Ben Gurion, was a
payntner,walls, not pictures. Afraid of heights, he wouldn't
climb ladders or paint above the second floor. In New York. Short
on dollars, he saved a dime.One Jewish New Year,
Roish Hashona,Mendel...
Death Retouched
Salman Masalha ||Death Retouched All around
pain is aflame From the desert to the sea. Here my blood is now fair
game, This land, an abyss for me....
W. H. Auden || Funeral Blues
W. H. Auden ||Funeral BluesStop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message 'He is Dead'.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public...
HER MAJESTY
Salman Masalha
HER MAJESTY
Neither dust, nor a rock, nor a site
Shall I praise from the desert’s edge
Nor the reign of thieves that mines
Only nightmares under siege.
There’s no joy in my grieving heart
For a past, for now, for what is to be,
For the land or its tenants,...
Boston Community Gospel Choir || The Song About the Child
Boston Community Gospel Choir ||
The Song About the Child
Text: Salman Masalha
Composer: Stephen Feigenbaum
source: Terezin Music Foundation
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Ghostlight Choir | The song about the child
Concert
Ghostlight Choir ||
The song about the child
Text: Salman Masalha
Composer: Sivan Elda...
Mahmoud Darwish || ID Card
The Mahmoud Darwish Poem That Enraged Lieberman and Regev
An Army Radio discussion of an early work by Mahmoud Darwish has caused an uproa...
Boston Children Chorus || The song about the child
Concert
Boston Children Chorus ||
The song about the child
Text: Salman Masalha
Composer: Sivan Eldar
The Terezen Music Foundati...
Balkrishna Sama || Man Is God
One poem from Nepal
Balkrishna Sama ||
Man Is God
He who loves flowers, has a tender heart.he who cannot pluck their blooms,has a heart that's nobl...
Benjamin Zephaniah | Poems
Benjamin Zephaniah
Poems
Dis Poetry
The Death of Joy Gardner
Walking Black Home
Who’s Who
*...
Sahron Olds || Sex Without Love
Sahron Olds ||
Sex Without Love
How do they do it, the ones who make love
without love? Beautiful as dancers,
Gliding over each other like ice-skaters
over the ice, fingers hook...
Vivian Eden || Fading faces in the rain
Vivian Eden ||
Fading faces in the rain
Of ink and identity: The late Samih al-Qasim on the ephemeral nature of the printed word as it encounters the element...
