langston hughes

langston hughes 

life is fine

,I went down to the river

.I set down on the bank

,I tried to think but couldn't

.So I jumped in and sank

!I came up once and hollered

!I came up twice and cried

If that water hadn't a-been so cold

.I might've sunk and died

!But it was Cold in that water! It was cold

I took the elevator

.Sixteen floors above the ground

I thought about my baby

.And thought I would jump down

!I stood there and I hollered

!I stood there and I cried

If it hadn't a-been so high

.I might've jumped and died

!But it was High up there! It was high

,So since I'm still here livin'

.I guess I will live on

--I could've died for love

But for livin' I was born

,Though you may hear me holler

--And you may see me cry

,I'll be dogged, sweet baby

.If you gonna see me die

,Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine!went down to the river

.I set down on the bank

,I tried to think but couldn't

.So I jumped in and sank

!I came up once and hollered

!I came up twice and cried

If that water hadn't a-been so cold

.I might've sunk and died

!But it was Cold in that water! It was cold

I took the elevator

.Sixteen floors above the ground

I thought about my baby

.And thought I would jump down

!I stood there and I hollered

!I stood there and I cried

If it hadn't a-been so high

.I might've jumped and died

!But it was High up there! It was high

,So since I'm still here livin'

.I guess I will live on

--I could've died for love

But for livin' I was born

,Though you may hear me holler

--And you may see me cry

,I'll be dogged, sweet baby

.If you gonna see me die

!Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Daddy

You do not do, you do not do

Any more, black shoe

In which I have lived like a foot

,For thirty years, poor and white

.Barely daring to breathe or Achoo

.Daddy, I have had to kill you

--You died before I had time

,Marble-heavy, a bag full of God

Ghastly statue with one gray toe

Big as a Frisco seal

And a head in the freakish Atlantic

Where it pours bean green over blue

.In the waters off beautiful Nauset

.I used to pray to recover you

.Ach, du

In the German tongue, in the Polish town

Scraped flat by the roller

.Of wars, wars, wars

.But the name of the town is common

My Polack friend

.Says there are a dozen or two

So I never could tell where you

,Put your foot, your root

.I never could talk to you

.The tongue stuck in my jaw

.It stuck in a barb wire snare

,Ich, ich, ich, ich

.I could hardly speak

I thought every German was you

And the language obscene

An engine, an engine

.Chuffing me off like a Jew

.A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen

.I began to talk like a Jew

.I think I may well be a Jew

The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna

.Are not very pure or true

With my gipsy ancestress and my weird luck

And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack

.I may be a bit of a Jew

,I have always been scared of you

.With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo

And your neat mustache

.And your Aryan eye, bright blue

--Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You

Not God but a swastika

.So black no sky could squeak through

,Every woman adores a Fascist

The boot in the face, the brute

.Brute heart of a brute like you

,You stand at the blackboard, daddy

,In the picture I have of you

A cleft in your chin instead of your foot

But no less a devil for that, no not

Any less the black man who

.Bit my pretty red heart in two

.I was ten when they buried you

At twenty I tried to die

.And get back, back, back to you

.I thought even the bones would do

,But they pulled me out of the sack

.And they stuck me together with glue

.And then I knew what to do

,I made a model of you

A man in black with a Meinkampf look

.And a love of the rack and the screw

.And I said I do, I do

.So daddy, I'm finally through

,The black telephone's off at the root

.The voices just can't worm through

--If I've killed one man, I've killed two

The vampire who said he was you

,And drank my blood for a year

.Seven years, if you want to know

.Daddy, you can lie back now

There's a stake in your fat black heart

.And the villagers never liked you

.They are dancing and stamping on you

.They always knew it was you

.Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through

Shakespeare

Shakespeare

Sonnet 40

:Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all

?What hast thou then more than thou hadst before

-No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call

.All mine was thine before thou hadst this more

,Then if for my love thou my love receivest

;I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest

But yet be blamed if thou this self deceivest

.By wilful taste of what thyself refusest

,I do forgive thy robb’ry, gentle thief

;Although thou steal thee all my poverty

And yet love knows it is a greater grief

.To bear love’s wrong than hate’s known injury

   , Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows

   . Kill me with spites, yet we must not be foes

E.E.Cummings

E.E.Cummings

Love is more thicker than forget

love is more thicker than forget

more thinner than recall

more seldom than a wave is wet

more frequent than to fail

it is most mad and moonly

and less it shall unbe

than all the sea which only

is deeper than the sea

love is less always than to win

less never than alive

less bigger than the least begin

less littler than forgive

it is most sane and sunly

and more it cannot die

than all the sky which only

is higher than the sky

Nadia Faydh

 Nadia Faydh

By Nadia Faydh

,Bad Girl

,I am a bad girl

,not with revealing shorts

,or a tattoo on my arms

not with a hair I let loose

...to play with a windy air

,I am a bad girl with a scarf

.a head-scarf, not a veil

I look decent to you

:but my thoughts not so much

;your turbans won't understand

I think of life beyond your chains

.liberated of your myths

,I am a bad girl

:because I dream

,of different land

.a land of peace

I dream of different heaven

.a heaven that makes me free

Saad Jasem

Saad Jasem

?Was It The Word Or The Kiss

Verses :

Saad Jasem

English Translation :

Inaam Al-Hashimi]DR :

- 1 -

At the beginning,

Was it the word?

Or, at the beginning,

‘Twas the kiss!

- 2 -

The kiss

Is a continent

Yet to be discovered;

- 3 -

Is poetry

The kiss of the soul?

Or is it its mysterious code?

- 4 -

The kiss is revelation (disclosure)

And discovery as well;

- 5 -

Butterflies are

Nature’s kisses?

Flowers are too;

- 6 -

Some women are

Like kisses,

And some are

Like knives

- 7 -

Tyrants’ kisses are poisoned,

And occupier’s kisses are deceptive;

- 8 -

Wishes are

Postponed kisses;

- 9 -

A kiss

After a kiss,

You fall on me,

And I become drenched

With pleasure and joy;

- 10 -

Kisses are

Wings that fly us

To the heights of eternity;

- 11 -

Salty were

The kisses

Of your last farewell;

- 12 -

A mother’s kiss

Is a river

That inundates us (children)

With kindness and salvation;

- 13 -

Rain drops

Are God’s kisses

That purify us of rancor

And bitter mistakes;

- 14 -

Waves are blue kisses

Of the sea;

- 15 -

Whenever it closes on me

I kiss you,

And the gates of divine secrets unfold;

- 16 -

Bombs are

Dirty kisses of war;

- 17 -

Every time I kiss you,

You become more radiant

And more feminine;

- 18 -

Is this a kiss?

Or a firebrand?

- 19 -

The kiss is

A prose poem

Scribbled by

An adventurous lover

On the body of the beloved,

Hence illuminates the world;

- 20 -

Doves are

Kisses of peace;

- 21 -

When I don’t kiss you

And you don’t kiss me,

It means that our souls

Are impaired;

- 22 -

In (Eaststan)

The kiss is a scandal,

And a crime, sometimes;

- 23 -

Adulterated

Is your kiss,

You, coquettish hypocrite!

- 24 -

For the kiss, there is no time

And no place big enough to hold it;

- 25 -

Kiss me

So that I become more graceful

And well to be;

- 26 -

Fruits are

The kisses of trees;

- 27 -

Kisses of “eneriends” (enemy-friends)

Are doubtful;

- 28 -

Earth is

God’s

Endless kiss;

- 29 -

Whenever my lips shiver,

I get the feeling that

You are yearning to kiss me;

- 30 -

Is there any more misery

Than that of lovers,

Who send their kisses

To their far away sweethearts,

By registered mail,

Yet, not delivered?

- 31 -

A beautiful female broadcaster

Is the television's kiss

To the unarmed viewer;

- 32 -

And I kissed you

Till your pulse was glowing;

I felt you inspire,

With ecstasy in fire,

And depart

In a ravishing trance;

Then, again,

Like a phoenix,

From your repose

You rise!

- 33 -

The kiss is an address,

Vision and a dream;

- 34 -

Kisses are

Our messages

On earth

- Here’s a kiss

For your soul,

Mahmud Darwish -

- 35 -

The kiss is

A divine creation;

The kiss is

The sperm of the soul;

- 36 -

A drop

After a drop

I drink your body a toast

And get intoxicated with kisses;

- 37 -

You are a kiss

In the size of the world;

- 38 -

How could I kiss you,

Oh, childish neighbor

When your mouth is

An empty hole?

- 39 -

A Cigarette

Is a delectable kiss,

But toxic;

- 40 -

I love you…

By God of the kiss!

- 41 -

Poor Gilgamesh!

He wept and moaned,

Like a woman bereaved of a child,

When the snake purloined from him

The kiss of immortality;

- 42 -

Oh life!

Sometimes,

We need your mysterious kiss

To stay alive;

Abdulazziz Alhaider

Abdulazziz Alhaider

The presence of a vacancy
.....................
By Kareem Ashoor
Translated by Abdulazziz Alhaider
***********

at school

-as In life -

He was sitting paste to the wall

In the last seat ....last row

No rioting visits at any time

no raising of his finger in the eye of any one

Did not break any pen

His bag did not containing a ruler at any day

To measure his long-bored

Eraser to cleans the

Gossips of the teacher

Nor sharpener

Trim the bloated minutes

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Always

His name was

In the first line in the

List of Absence