Category Archives: Arabic Poetry

Elegy for Alaa Mashzoub

Posted on February 4, 2019 by soitgoes1984

Blind assassins can’t erase your words, written in ink, can’t erase your message. Thirteen bullets and they think they have silenced you   but ink outlives blood, and paper weighs more than rock, and scissors, they can cut off your … Continue reading →

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Rewrite All Our Wrongs

Posted on October 27, 2018 by soitgoes1984

Let them hold the pen and write their own destiny rewrite all our wrongs write away the suffering write verses about springtime.   The people hunger let them relax and eat figs let them enjoy peace and drink their tea … Continue reading →

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Standing By The Ruins

Posted on October 26, 2018 by soitgoes1984

Let them hold the pen and write their own destiny rewrite all our wrongs write away the suffering write verses about springtime   instead of winter, write verses about laughing instead of crying, dancing instead of dying let them write … Continue reading →

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