Maram al Massri

Maram al Massri Poems

Women like me
do not know how to speak.
A word remains in their throats
like a thorn
...

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Syria for me is a bleeding wound
It is my mother on her death bed
It is my child with her throat cut
...

Knocks on the door.
Who?
I sweep the dust of my loneliness
...

4.

How foolish:
Whenever my heart
hears a knocking,
...

Maram al Massri Biography

Maram al-Massri was born in Lattakia, Syria, to a family of artists and studied English literature at the University of Damascus. She worked as an interpreter in Lattakia before moving to Paris, where she has lived since 1982. In 1984 she published her first book of poems, I Threaten You with a White Dove, followed by A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor. Her work has been awarded many prizes and translated into several languages.)

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Women Like Me

Women like me
do not know how to speak.
A word remains in their throats
like a thorn
they choose to swallow.
Women like me
know nothing except weeping,
impossible weeping
suddenly
pouring
like a severed artery.
Women like me
receive blows
and do not dare return them.
They shake with anger,
they subdue it.
Like lions in cages,
women like me
dream . . .
of freedom . . .

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