Salman Masalha
Salman MasalhaScenesThe street paved with illusionslike an unraveled dream,the sleepers on the bedding of their humiliationand the awake on a broken sidewalk.The weepers over their bitter fateand the seekers of success,The hiders of their prayer in their heartsand those who have gone with the wind.The boat forgotten beside the riverin the morning light...
Showing posts with label Songs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Songs. Show all posts
In Haifa by the Sea
Salman MasalhaIn Haifa by the Sea
(In memory of Emile Habiby)In Haifa, by the sea, the smells of saltrise from the
earth. And the sunhanging from a tree unravels wind.In a row of
trees bathed in stonemen, women and silence have beenplanted.
Tenants in an apartmentblock...
Safar
Salman MasalhaSafar I walk in the clouds.My horizon tinted dew.Mirages are the myths.My life has passed in vainLooking for the true.If a friend would ask me backTo the land of the sane,I'd never leave the sands,I'd never leave the track.Thoughts stretch taut at night.Desire is a lightThat sparkles in the eye.I am a mad song.Like an echo, I fly.Translated...
MIDDLE EAST
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War Games
Israel also needs Iran. Just as Iran calls Israel the Little Satan (compared to the great American one), Israel also portrays Iran as the devil incarnate...
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Arab Nationalism?
The past several years have provided decisive proof that all the pompous Arab slogans from the ideological school of the Syrian and Iraqi Ba’ath parties...
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