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Nizar Qabbani's Poetry, by first line

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  • My Lover Asks Me
    My lover asks me:
    "What is the difference between me and the sky?"
    6 lines, 7 comments
  • Every Time I Kiss You
    Every time I kiss you
    After a long separation
    6 lines, 8 comments
  • In The Summer
    In the summer
    I stretch out on the shore
    10 lines, 5 comments
  • The Face Of Qana
    The face of Qana
    Pale, like that of Jesus
    133 lines, 3 comments
  • The Hasteners
    The last walls of shame fell,
    And we rejoiced...
    132 lines, 1 comment
  • Barada
    Barada, oh father of all rivers
    Oh, horse that races the days
    13 lines
  • I Have No Power
    "I have no power to change you
    or explain your ways
    55 lines
  • A Letter From A Stupid Woman
    (A Letter to a Man)
    (1)
    93 lines, 16 comments
  • Verse
    Friends
    The old word is dead.
    175 lines, 5 comments
  • Damascus, What Are You Doing to Me?
    My voice rings out, this time, from Damascus
    It rings out from the house of my mother and father
    265 lines
  • Clarification To My Poetry-Readers
    And of me say the fools:
    I entered the lodges of women
    51 lines, 2 comments
  • My Love (Do Not Ask Me)
    Do not ask me, the name of my love
    I fear for you, from the fragrance of perfume
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • Dialogue
    Do not say my love was
    A ring or a bracelet.
    8 lines, 2 comments
  • Five Letters To My Mother
    Good morning sweetheart.
    Good morning my Saint of a sweetheart.
    99 lines
  • A Damascene Moon
    Green Tunisia, I have come to you as a lover
    On my brow, a rose and a book
    38 lines
  • Words
    He lets me listen, when he moves me,
    Words are not like other words
    30 lines, 5 comments
  • I Conquer The World With Words
    I conquer the world with words,
    conquer the mother tongue,
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Love Compared
    I do not resemble your other lovers, my lady
    should another give you a cloud
    8 lines, 6 comments
  • Jerusalem
    I wept until my tears were dry
    I prayed until the candles flickered
    37 lines, 2 comments
  • Sultan
    If I were promised safety,
    if I could meet the Sultan
    19 lines
  • Letter From Under The Sea
    If you are my friend...
    Help me...to leave you
    40 lines, 6 comments
  • Maritime Poem
    In the blue harbor of your eyes
    Blow rains of melodious lights,
    28 lines, 2 comments
  • Light Is More Important Than The Lantern
    Light is more important than the lantern,
    The poem more important than the notebook,
    9 lines, 3 comments
  • On Entering The Sea
    Love happened at last,
    And we entered God's paradise,
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • A Brief Love Letter
    My darling, I have much to say
    Where o precious one shall I begin ?
    24 lines, 10 comments
  • A Lesson In Drawing
    My son places his paint box in front of me
    and asks me to draw a bird for him.
    53 lines, 2 comments
  • The Wrathful
    O pupils of Gaza . . .
    Teach us . . .
    196 lines, 1 comment
  • Oh, My Love
    Oh, my love
    If you were at the level of my madness,
    10 lines, 3 comments
  • "your body is my map"
    raise me more love… raise me
    my prettiest fits of madness
    51 lines, 9 comments
  • The Fortune Teller
    She sat with fear in her eyes
    Contemplating the upturned cup
    114 lines, 4 comments
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