#ghada al samman

[hvtice]

كنت أعرف منذ البداية أنني وجدتك لأضيعك ، وأحببتك لأفقدك ..

فقد التقينا مصادفة وكنا سهمين متعاكسي الاتجاه , وكان لا مفر من الوداع كما اللقاء

I knew from the beginning that I found you only to lose you, and that I loved you only to miss you. We met by chance, two arrows in opposite directions, inevitable was the meeting and inevitable was the farewell.

- Ghada Al Samman

#arabic #arabic poetry #poetry #love poetry #poetry lovers #ghada al samman

[muhtesemz]

‏لقد تدفق الزمن كالنهر، وضيعت طريق العودة إليك.. ولكنني ما زلت أحبك بصدق، وما زلت أرفضك بصدق

Time has flowed like a river, and I lost my way back to you.

But I still love you sincerely, and I still reject you sincerely.

- Ghada Al-Samman

#arabic lines #ghada al samman

[tournevole]

J'ai de tout temps été folle

Et mal élevée.

J'ai aimé des hommes

Insensibles à mes avances.

J'ai couru derrière des trains

Dont j'ignorais la destination.

J'ai adoré des villes

Dont je ne parlais pas les langues.

J'ai rencontré des coqs chantant

Pour des matins incertains.

J'ai commis

D'énormes maladresses,

Mais j'ai gardé en mon coeur,

Frais et propre, ton jasmin.

Et lorsque j'ai atteint

Le sommet de mon amour pour toi,

J'ai poursuivi l'ascension. ~

GHADA AL SAMMAN

Poétesse syrienne, née à Damas en 1942.

#GHADA AL SAMMAN

[dateinmarsh]

تو را دوست داشتم،

چنان که گویی تو

آخرین عزیزانِ من

بر رویِ زمینی...

و تو رنجم دادی،

چنان که گویی من

آخرین دشمنانِ تو

بر رویِ زمینم.

"I loved you

As if you were

The last one of my dearest people

On earth...

And you pained me

As if I were

The last one of your enemies

On earth."

Ghada Al-Samman

#poetry #ghada al samman

[aphroditeaintshit]

And i knew from the beginning,

That i found you to lose you,

And loved you to miss you,

Because we met by coincidence.

#ghada al samman #dark romantica #romantic academia #love #dark academia #quotes #arab quotes #arabian #coincidence

[toile-invisible]

And I knew from the beginning, that found you to lose you, and loved you to miss you. Because we met by coincidence.

Ghada Al Samman

#Ghada Al Samman #Enigme

[lillyli-74]

#ghada al-samman

[oldwinesoul]

“𝑇𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠. 𝑇𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑.”

—Ghada Al-Samman

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[thenewgothictwice]

"Dear eternity, I want a truce of love" by Ghadah Al-Samman.

"Dear eternity, I want a truce of love…

I was born in war and perhaps the nozzle of a cannon shot me.

In adolescence I was grabbed by a war,

My youth was baptized in the Lebanese war , and in love stories.

My whole life is full of wars with live ammunition from my blood –

And on the rhythm of my crazy heart, wandering between the shelter and the first line of fire…

And when the heart front subsides, the homeland front bursts…

Dear eternity, do not I have the right to ask for a short truce

Like ten years, to live it with my love in peace?

I was born with a bullet in my mouth

Dipped in blood…

my first pillow is a grenade, And my doll is a Kalashnikov submachine

Today, I raise the white flag for a truce for me

And another for my beloved Beirut,

a truce that lasts a short everlasting while : A thousand years and a year…"

#ghada al-samman #syrian poetry #i couldnt find the translation credit for this

[edwordsmyth]

"And my sorrow sat next to me, stared at me for a while, then it burst into tears and I remained silent."

-Ghada al-Samman

#ghada al-samman #syria

[muhtesemz]

يقول غسان: أنت جبانة تريدين ان تكوني نصف الأشياء لا تريدنني ولا تريدين غيابي

فترد غادة: لانني تعلمت الا التصق بك كي لا تزهد بي والا ابتعد عنك تماما كي لا تنساني.

يردف قائلا: مأساتي انني احبك بصورة اكبر من ان اخفيها واعمق من ان تطمريها.

قالت: مأساتي اني لا ابوح بحبي الا بعد ان ينقضي!

Ghassan says: You are a coward, you want to be half of everything, you don't want me, and you don't want my absence.

Ghada replied: Because I learned not to stick to you so that you do not abandon me, nor to stay away from you completely so that you do not forget me.

He added, My tragedy is that I love you in a way that's too big to be concealed and too deep to be buried.

She said: And my tragedy is that I don't reveal my love until after it's over!

#ghassan kanafani #ghada al samman #arabic lines

[ravioliout]

#quote #ghada al-samman

[mysterieuxclairdelune]

{Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath/ Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest/ Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life/ Susan Sontag/ Liv Ullmann, from Changing (Knopf, 1976)/ Katherine Mansfield, in a letter to J.M. Murry, dated December 14, 1919, Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield (Penguin Classics, 1977)/ Anne Sexton,A Self-Portrait in Letters/ Anne Sexton,A Self-Portrait in Letters/ Richard Siken/ Papi/ Anais Nin/ Ghada Al-Samman/ Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings}

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[dateinmarsh]

من اندوهگین نیستم

خود، انـدوهِ عالمم...

و سرزمینی در سینه‌ام می‌گرید...

I am not crestfallen,

Me, I am the sadness of the world...

And a kingdom cries in my chest...

Ghada al-Samman

#poetry #ghada al samman

[gazanarchive]

From Ghassan Kanafani's Letters To Ghada Al Samman.

#palestine #ghassan kanafani #gaza

[panic-point-blank]

I didn’t fall in love, I walked right into it with steady steps and eyes open to their limit. I’m standing in love, not fallen in it. I want you with my full awareness.

| Ghada al-Samman

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