When I love
I feel that I am the king of time
I possess the earth and everything on it
and ride into the sun upon my horse.
When I love
I become liquid light
invisible to the eye
and the poems in my notebooks
become fields of mimosa and poppy.
When I love
the water gushes from my fingers
grass grows on my tongue
when I love
I become time outside all time.
When I love a woman
all the trees
run barefoot toward me…
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i hate this
From guest bob (contact)
this was a realy bad poem it was way to cliche and the nature thing is so anyoing it sounds like he is saying that he is god and i just have to say but he has the most weridist way of loving -
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I know the feeling. -
nice poetry
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passenger in the sea of words
From guest basil ghuzlan (contact)
really i like nizar but the problem hide behinde the translation i mean specially the meaning , we r such arab import deffernt meaning and imagination from arab words the reaction of forign reader nt like our reaction any way so nice , allah bless him -
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Love naturally
I love the way he used nature in this poem, as love really suppose to be as natural as the trees,grass and water. -
the old truth
From guest Mansoor Alam (contact)
qabbani's when i love is a frank admission of the fact that human beings need not pretend, that they don't love a woman,rather one should accept it as a truth that can not be dampened by our outward attitudes. qabbani is speaking in this poem for the whole humanity.his voice is the representative clarion of the thing called [informed instinct ]. -
plz i need somenones help
From guest sweet raya (contact)
i have a presentation this week n i'll be talking about modern pottery.i've selected when i love poem by Nizar Qabbani as my topic,but the thing is,i couldn't find the theme of the poem or the explanation.I really need help. thanks alot -
From guest Katya Chelu (contact)
On my way to work today,I was listening to his lyrics sung by Kadim Al-Sahir and got the whole range of experience of versatility in his poems. Nizar Qabbani is the absolute genius of love, a most sacred gift from Aphrodite! -
Not his best
From guest baltiti (contact)
Nizar Qabbani is one of the great poets and writers of the Arab world. I admire him and he is worth being studied and read by more peoplein the West. -
nzar`s poems love
From guest abdallah (contact)
when i read that poems i feel that iam the king of love and the prince of passion -
Love It
Warm cozy feeling. Read words of a man who bows bown to his feelings. Touches my heart. Such expression of love. Pure lovely poem -
Awsome
I can see trying to discribe "When I love " The emotion, the rush, the feeling. Awsome -
This is awesome, really sweet and yet it's kind of simple at the same time...like not bad simple but jsut...I don't know. Anyway, I know this was definitely an awesome poem!
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B'duh?
From guest Shane (contact)
Great poem...
Really good poem, though. The imagery is absolutely gorgeous. -
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lovely
Just an amazing and perfect poem for love
I'm loving it ^^ -
holy crap
I actually hated this...I don't know why...but it seems so simple and cliche to me. I did not feel any effort or depth at all. It seems as though there was no thought process and I didn't really know where the author was going with it. -
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Before judging too harshly, you should bear in mind that this piece was likely translated from Arabic - a language with totally different sounds, sentence structure and idiom from English.
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i think this is a very good poetry!!!i like i like it alot!!!
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When I love more strange things happen to me which are hard to state and explain but some people have a very beautiful command over their thoughts and pen to compose all such feelings as this great poet Qabbani...A very beautiful poem
"When I love
I become liquid light
invisible to the eye
and the poems in my notebooks
become fields of mimosa and poppy."
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