fadwa tuqan Poems

Hamza was just an ordinary man
like others in my hometown
who work only with their hands for bread.
When I met him the other day,
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When the hurricane swirled and spread its deluge
of dark evil
onto the good green land
'they' gloated. The western skies
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The wind blows the pollen in the night
through ruins of fields and homes.
Earth shivers with love,
with the pain of giving birth,
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Time's out and I'm home alone with the shadow I cast
Gone is the law of the universe, scattered by frivolous fate
Nothing to hold down my things
Nothing to weigh them to the floor
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