She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. from “She Does Not Love You - Mahmoud Darwish

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She does not love you.
Your metaphors thrill her
you are her poet.
But that's all there's to it.

from “She Does Not Love You

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About Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish (13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. He won numerous awards for his works. Darwish used Palestine as a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and exile. He also served as an editor for several literary magazines in Palestine.

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Syrian photographer working for the Syrian News Agency (SANA) (Public domain / CC0)

Also Known As

Native Name: محمود درويش
Alternative Names: M. Darwish Mahmoud Darwich

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الآن, إذ تصحو, تذكّر رقصة البجع الأخيرة. هل رقصت مع الملائكة الصغار وأنت تحلم؟ هل أضاءتك الفراشة عندما احترقت بضوء الوردة الأبدي؟ هل ظهرت لك العنقاء واضحة... وهل نادتك باسمك؟ هل رأيت الفجر يطلع من أصابع من تحب؟ وهل لمست الحلم باليد, أم تركت الحلم يحلم وحده, حين انتبهت إلى غيابك بغتةً؟ ما هكذا يُخلي المنام الحالمون, فإنهم يتوهجون, ويكملون حياتهم في الحلم... قل لي: كيف كنت تعيش حلمك في مكان ما أقل لك من تكون. والآن إذ تصحو تذكّر: هل أسأت إلى منامك؟ إن أسأت, إذا تذكّر رقصة البجع الأخيرة!

وأنت تعد فطورك، فكر بغيرك... (لا تنس قوت الحمام)
وأنت تخوض حروبك، فكر بغيرك... (لا تنس من يطلبون السلام)
وأنت تسدد فاتورة الماء، فكر بغيرك... (من يرضعون الغمام)
وأنت تعود الي البيت، بيتك، فكر بغيرك... (لا تنس شعب الخيام)
وأنت تنام وتحصي الكواكب، فكر بغيرك... (ثمة من لم يجد حيزا للمنام)
وأنت تحرر نفسك بالاستعارات، فكر بغيرك... (من فقدوا حقهم في الكلام)
وأنت تفكر بالآخرين البعيدين، فكر بنفسك... (قل: ليتني شمعة في الظلام)

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Put it on record — I am an Arab
And the number of my card is fifty thousand
I have eight children
And the ninth is due after summer.
What's there to be angry about?

Put it on record. — I am an Arab
Working with comrades of toil in a quarry.
I have eight childern
For them I wrest the loaf of bread,
The clothes and exercise books
From the rocks
And beg for no alms at your doors, — Lower not myself at your doorstep. — What's there to be angry about?

Put it on record. — I am an Arab.
I am a name without a tide,
Patient in a country where everything
Lives in a whirlpool of anger. — My roots — Took hold before the birth of time — Before the burgeoning of the ages, — Before cypess and olive trees, — Before the proliferation of weeds.

My father is from the family of the plough — Not from highborn nobles.
And my grandfather was a peasant — Without line or genealogy.
My house is a watchman's hut — Made of sticks and reeds.
Does my status satisfy you? — I am a name without a surname.

Put it on Record. — I am an Arab.
Color of hair: jet black.
Color of eyes: brown.
My distinguishing features: — On my head the 'iqal cords over a keffiyeh — Scratching him who touches it.
My address: — I'm from a village, remote, forgotten, — Its streets without name — And all its men in the fields and quarry. — What's there to be angry about?

Put it on record. — I am an Arab.
You stole my forefathers' vineyards — And land I used to till, — I and all my childern, — And you left us and all my grandchildren — Nothing but these rocks. — Will your government be taking them too — As is being said?

So! — Put it on record at the top of page one: — I don't hate people, — I trespass on no one's property.
And yet, if I were to become starved — I shall eat the flesh of my usurper. — Beware, beware of my starvation. — And of my anger!

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