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tamarrud · 5 months

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Seeing this map I cannot stop thinking about Mahmoud Darwish's poem "The Earth is Closing on Us"

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The Earth is closing on us  pushing us through the last passage  and we tear off our limbs to pass through.  The Earth is squeezing us.  I wish we were its wheat  so we could die and live again.  I wish the Earth was our mother  so she'd be kind to us.  I wish we were pictures on the rocks  for our dreams to carry as mirrors.  We saw the faces of those who will throw  our children out of the window of this last space.  Our star will hang up mirrors.  Where should we go after the last frontiers?  Where should the birds fly after the last sky?  Where should the plants sleep after the last breath of air?  We will write our names with scarlet steam.  We will cut off the hand of the song to be finished by our flesh.  We will die here, here in the last passage.  Here and here our blood will plant its olive tree.

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Crazy how this was written in 1984 and yet it still resonates so closely with what Palestinians are going through almost 40 years later.

If you're able to read this in Arabic, I urge you to.

#palestine #gaza #mahmoud darwish #Darwish #text: palestine

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joytri · 11 months

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You became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.

Mahmoud Darwish

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luckystarinsky · 1 year

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When Darwish said, “you are killing me, & you are keeping me from dying. This is love,” & Kafka wrote, “you are the knife I twist inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”

#kafkaesque #franz kafka #kafka quotes #mahmoud darwish #darwish #movie quotes #quote of the day #dead poets society #tumblrquotes #literature #words #best quotes #spilled words #spilled ink #Charles bukowski #bukowski quotes

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anelaxoxo · 6 months

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”قالوا : تموت بها حبا؟”

قلت : ” أل�� اذكروها على قبري لتحييني”.

They asked : "do you love her to death?"

I said : "Speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life".

_ Mahmoud darwish.

#poetry #classic academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia #autumn #classic books #dead poets society #writers and poets #mahmoud darwish #dark academism #books and coffee #romanticism #romantic academia #darwish #dark academia moodboard #dark academia aesthetic

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maihonhassan · 3 months

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"Every flaw I love in you, except your absence."

- Mahmoud Darwish

"Jaise tujhe aate hain na aane ke bahane, aise hi bahane se na jaane ke liye aa."

- Talib Baghpati

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noosphe-re · 6 months

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In a skyless world, the earth becomes a chasm. And the poem is one of consolation’s gifts, a quality of the winds, from both south and north. Do not describe your wounds as the camera sees them.

Mahmoud Darwish, Homage to Edward Said, Counterpoint, Le Monde diplomatique, January 2005, translated from the French version of the original by Julie Stoker

#quote #poetry #poem #Mahmoud Darwish #Darwish #Edward Said #Said #Palestine

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darkpoetrynprose · 2 months

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“March is a month of storms and lust. Spring looks on, like a thought between two people, between a long winter and a long summer.”

- Mahmoud Darwish , An excerpt from “Like a Hand Tattoo from an Ode by an Ancient Arab Poet” , from his poetry book : Almond Blossoms and Beyond

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hazeltoheraugustus · 2 years

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All roads lead to you, even those I took to forget you.

~mahmoud darwish

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semperardens-juli · 11 months

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Mahmoud Darwish, In The Presence of Absence translated by Sinan Antoon (x)

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booksbyadesi · 1 year

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أحب الحديث معك رغم أني لا أملك ما أقول

(I love talking to you even when I have nothing to say)

Mahmoud Darwish

#mahmoud darwish #arabic poems #poetry #palestine #darwish #bookblr #books and literature #love #poem #writing

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khan-ae · 4 months

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Palestina

Your heart was my home

but the trivialities of life didn't let me live there

And you had your own calling

your own sadness

On most days

I found myself

struggling

to save an inch

one corner for myself

In this overwhelming whirlpool

of soulless desires

and facile emotions

Mostly I wanted a part of the universe to myself

Mostly I wanted the right to call something my home

And mean it.

Your heart was Palestine

And I was Mahmoud Darwish

Everything I wrote about love

I wrote about the longing for it

~a.e.

(self)

#palestine #palestina #free palestine #darwish #mahmoud darwish #poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #marxism #philosophy

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arabdoll · 5 months

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You are like me, but my abyss is clear. And you have roads whose secrets never end. They descend and ascend, descend and ascend.

Mahmoud Darwish

#lit #literature #poetry #poem #Mahmoud Darwish #Arabic #Arab poetry #Arab #Jordan #Palestine #Arabian #Darwish #lebanon

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burn-like-starss · 7 months

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When Mahmoud Darwish said, "speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life" and when Hozier said, "no grave can hold my body down, I'll crawl home to her"

#hozier #darwish #poetry

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maihonhassan · 4 months

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When Mahmoud Darwish said; “If it was a piece of paper i would tear it, If it was a bottle i would break it, If it was a wall i would tear it down - But it is my heart” And Nasir Kazmi said; “Umid-e-pursish-e-gham kis se kijiye 'nasir' jo apne dil pe guzarti hai koi kya jaane.”

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nanamins-overtime · 1 month

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- Mahmoud Darwish

#mahmoud darwish #darwish #love #romance #poetry #lines #arab poetry #poem #poems #arabic #arabic poem #arabic lines #quotes #language #poet #hopeless romantic #romantic

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 6 months

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— Mahmoud Darwish, from A State of Siege (2002) (tr. from the Arabic by Fady Joudah)

[Belles-lettres]

#darwish #Mahmoud Darwish #A State of Siege #Belles-lettres #poetry #poem #my favorites #words and writing #sky

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