Yahia Al-Samawy Biography

Oh marble goddess
Standing erect like a gallows,
It is not a torch of liberty you carry!
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Don't light the candles, Shahrazad
Shahriyar lays waste a town a night
He bathes his madness in its blood
He pours fires into the vessels of peace.
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The elders remember
The earth was unlimited
The water sweeter
The loaf more delicious
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I want for myself:
twenty hands,
A sheet of paper large as a tropical forest,
A pen big as a palm-tree,
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Here I am, spreading fresh water, plaintive songs,
Sweet myrtle flowers,
Unsleeping.
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