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Nizar Qabbani
(1923 - 1998 / Damascus / Syria)
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  When a man is in love
how can he use old words?
Should a woman
desiring her lover
lie down with
grammarians and linguists?

I said nothing
to the woman I loved
but gathered
love's adjectives into a suitcase
and fled from all languages.


Nizar Qabbani

Submitted Date :  Thursday, January 01, 2004



Read poems about / on: woman, love, women

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Barbara Kraemer (5/9/2009 2:56:00 PM)
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yes. beautiful. i agree with CK. thank you for posting this poem.
Chen Kasher (4/21/2007 9:50:00 PM)
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This is incredible. It should be a malefaction to do so much with so few words.
Marcy Jarvis (11/7/2005 2:09:00 AM)
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a linguist's tongue
may be undone
and the slightest stammer

betrays it's smitten
dons red mitten
then smashes with a hammer
 
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