Dr. Abdul Aziz Al-Maqaleh, (born 1937), a Yemeni poet and writer. He follows the school of free poetry and he is the Yemen’s first poet won the Al-Owais cultural Award
Al-Maqaleh was born in 1937 in one of Ibb's divisions called Al Saha'ir, and studied and finished his BA in 1970. In 1977, he received his Master's degree and PhD in 1977 from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt.
During 1982 - 2001, Al-Maqaleh worked as the President of Sana'a University, and then as the Head of the Center for Studies and Research Yemen, Sanaa.
The spirit of this city floats
On the water of years.
Do not wake her
Let her moan while her children drown.
...
It' sleeping, it did not die.
It will emerge from its sleep
(after a year)
I tell you, after twenty years
...
My faith in poetry is betrayed, as blood,
gushing from the heart of the square,
now masks the face of words
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