Mahmoud Darwish Poems

No flag flutters in the wind,
no horse floats in the wind,
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Now, as you awaken, remember the swan's
last dance. Did you dance with young angels
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Slain and unknown. Neither gathered up by forgetfulness
nor dispersed by memory…they're forgotten
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I have the wisdom of one condemned to die,
I possess nothing so nothing can possess me
and have written my will in my own blood:
'O inhabitants of my song: trust in water'
and I sleep pierced and crowned by my tomorrow…
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If I were another on the road, I would not have looked
back, I would have said what one traveler said
to another: Stranger! awaken
the guitar more! Delay our tomorrow so our road
may extend and space may widen for us, and we may get rescued
from our story together: you are so much yourself ... and I am
so much other than myself right here before you!
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A noun sentence, no verb
to it or in it: to the sea the scent of the bed
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If I were someone else on the road I wouldn't
have looked back - I'd have said what a man traveling
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And they don't ask: What comes after death?
Though more intimate with the book of Paradise
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In Egypt, one hour isn't like any other…
each moment is a memory renewed by a bird
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O Homeland! O Eagle,
Plunging, through the bars of my cell,
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