Poet: Arian Alsayyed Khalaf
O my home tattooed with bombs
O home of trees rivers and streams
O home of religions faith and tolerance
O home of poetry persistence and optimism... More
I love him and lie to say I forget
His palm leaf truly relieve for whoever passed across its shade
I love him inasmuch as I saw wrong
And I say o welfare how to find and meet you... More
Janna?€¦ Janna?€¦ Janna?€¦ o God and o our homeland
O beloved home how good your soil?€¦ even your hell but a heaven
Zeena?€¦ Zeena?€¦ Zeena... we carry in our hands ?€¦ pray happiness for every village and city
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Yesterday I saw home coming in dream yesterday?€¦
I said Hala and a hundred Hala father of wild horses
I stretched my hands but I saw the heart rushed to shake hands with him?€¦
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You the eye and closer than the eyelid you
You the father who take in his hands his son and daughter
And in the oneness of Allah the whole people you Shiites and Sunnis
Who said I forget you does the moon forget its timing... More
Parting such a line of tears in my eye corners
Yearning, crying this soul o my inspirer
Ah when should we meet, o bartender's wine
So, the cup lost in travels since long time
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Salaam to the Tigris and Euphrates?€¦ Salaam to migrant birds
Salaam to bygone civilizations ?€¦salaam to lofty edifices
Salaam to Babylon ?€¦ its charm?€¦ salaam to Sumer and others
Salaam to the kingdom of seas?€¦ its hub and life secret
Salaam to standing reeds ?€¦ salaam to Akkad among cosmopolitans... More
Humiliation descended upon her
And violence her, devastated
Some at a loss about her
For the horror therein
Pardon me, Aba Tijan
Her waterwheels have become dry... More
O white camel driver
You've stirred the woes
In singing
Be kind with us
And search for a change
In things
Ideas and names
For in politics lies
The temptation... More
Proceed and swell the votes
He the man our country sought after
Iraqis votes a trust of homeland
We wanted the honest to truly embrace us
Protect our Iraq soil and wealth
And not an outsider to lie to and cheat us... More
Out of my love and longing for her I started to see her in my dreams, see her face before me, and yesterday I saw her and wished I had not, I saw her crying I saw a black cloud in her sky I wandered in her roads but no children were playing in sight... More
