Recently the poet Ahmad Al-khatat read his poems on Michael Anthony Ingram's radio program. (Here's the link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ql_p/2019/01/01/quintessential-listening-poetry--ahmad-al-khatat.). Tonight I'd like to post a few of his poems.
The Soul Mirror
You see me,
you follow me
slow as the night
when it slaughters
the sunset above
the clear skies
Golden danger
that you hide
appears sad from your eyes
End me and allow
me to die above the
pool of my rusty blood
I don’t want to
be the soul
mirror with a mother's tears
Burnt Leaves
Sometimes, it’s better to leave the
past unsaid to anyone untrusted
when the ears hear nothing of delight
but about a world that is breaking
in pieces of dryness and moisture
Little birds of heaven fly above the
graveyard of unknown tombs
Some of them were actually for friends
we met below the season of the bloody war
Where everything seemed too dark to
remember
It’s the evening, I’m drunk
alone drinking and watching my
dreams in a dusty bubble up in
My mind that is filled of burnt leaves
and dead corpses of teenage fighters
The other side of my life is
never silent, I usually hear
the sound of shooting, bombs,
and kids crying by their dead
mothers' bed from a shooting that I participated in it
My tears are like the rain
except mine don't bloom,
or grow a branch from a
tree within my dreams in the
seeds, instead I feel I am a soldier with a curse
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| Photograph by mahmoudalrawi |
Seaview
Since the time
I built my first
sand castle
and the waves
damaged it
I knew that
temptation was
not fancy in
my small home
nor in the castle of my princess
The thieves
are well trained
to play with them
meanwhile, tears
are falling hopelessly
Different drugs
are no longer bad
as alcohol is dripping
above the thirst
to arise silent pain
I live once and
not twice with a
doctor coming to
me to say that
I will die within seconds
The sea view is
the only view
that reminds me
of times when we
were innocent and not miserable
This evening I'd like to post a song by Korhan Fatuci and Kara Orkestra, a Turkish group that is part of the Shape of Jazz to Come, according to Nick Hasted, a British music critic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjcA2XpyYFE
Here is another of their songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGyc8_Qvhvw
I'll finish with a song from their Babylon session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOmUSqmSoeM
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