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TALAL KASSAD (01/01/1985 / Syrian Arab Republic)
Biography of TALAL KASSAD
Talal was born in Homs, Syria, the Arab World. He is a student of higher education, most interested in writing English and Arabic poetry. His are for the most part symbolic and ironic poems by which to redicule people's vanity, insincerity and depraved nature.
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The Global Rape
There I was, but there I’ll go again.
Towards an eastern land I make my way,
Wherefrom arose the sun-like beauty,
Wherein the sunshine used to be all day.
But something strange befell the globe.
The east became no longer east.
For, though at noon, the sun was hiding
And hid with it the gleam of hope.
On such a low if weighty land