#syrian writers

[feral-ballad]

Saleem Barakat, tr. by Lena Jayyusi and Naomi Shihab Nye, from Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology; “Dilana and Diram”

[cuddlymashmallow]

-Nobody just leaves in one go.. We keep pieces of us, fragments of us, bits of us with other people. You lose a call every day. Until there's no more calls, until the communication ceases. I carry these fragments everywhere, and sometimes, that is enough.

[feral-ballad]

Eating your flesh, (...) it has a taste of volcanoes.

Etel Adnan, edited by Kamal Boullata, from Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry by Arab Women; “Five senses for one death”

[feral-ballad]

Etel Adnan, Edited by Nathalie Handal, from The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology; “There”

[feral-ballad]

There, in the wastes of the soul, within its repetitions, where we wonder if there are differences between the mind's inner chambers and the imagination's outer realms, lies the confrontation between the self and itself.

Etel Adnan, Edited by Nathalie Handal, from The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology; “There”

[feral-ballad]

They had left behind some kisses in the grass,

Saleem Barakat, tr. by Lena Jayyusi and Naomi Shihab Nye, From Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology; “Dilana and Diram”

[feral-ballad]

..Heart suspended like a wound full of life.

Saleem Barakat, tr. by Lena Jayyusi and Naomi Shihab Nye, from Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology; “Dilana and Diram”

[cuddlymashmallow]

❣انت حب روحي❣

❣You are the love of my soul❣