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YEMEN WEBDATE
YEMEN
POETRY
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Supplications
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My God...
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I seek refuge in you from the evil of myself,
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From the evil of my people,
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Form the evil of my good friends,
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From the evil of my enemies who are poor
of love,
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From the evil of what the panegyrists had
written,
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And from the evils of what the spitfulls
had written.
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I seek refuge in You God from an insomnia
in the stars,
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From an anxiety in the breasts of the mountains,
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From the disappointment in the souls of
men,
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From a country unsheathing its death,
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Holding its disappointment,
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And rolling afraid of the memories.
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My God...
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I will confess now I cheated the sparrows,
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That I satirized the gardens,
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I quarrelled with the sun,
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I made to the sea alone,
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And waited out the beautiful time.
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Nevertheless I get nothing but the waste.
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Yet, I submitted to the doubt, I stubborned,
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Scattered - half in craziness and half in
conscious.
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That is why the boils of time have got me,
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I saw my bier,
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I mixed things impossible to name.
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My God...
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Hastily you brought,
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And I hoped that I hastily went back to
you
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And put the jewels of my sorrow in your
hands.
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And the most precious pain that my childhood
has spared
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Oh, nothing could get me but the weeping
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Because I was afraid when I descended to
this earth.
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The claws of my own fears terrified me.
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I tried, I wished, I was able
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To twist, to become a dew, a stone,
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To immigrate and to erase my name
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And to rub it out of the creation book.
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Poem by: Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh,
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Translation: Soheil Najm.
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- Aden [James Nash] http://www.al-bab.com/bys/articles/nash93.htm
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- al-Diwan (YAL) http://members.aol.com/yalnet/diwan.htm
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- Mohammed Al-Murayri http://www.yemenweb.com/front/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2
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- An Obituary for Folk Poet Shayef al-Khaledi
http://www.yementimes.com/99/iss04/culture.htm#2
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- Playing with Words: the Ethnography of Poetic
Genres in Yemen (By Lucine Taminian) http://www.aaanet.org/mes/maytam.htm
Poetry as Power -- Caton studies complex
role of poetry in Yemen society (Andrea Shen, 1999) http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/12.09/caton.html
- ABDULLAH AL-UDHARI, "Waddah al-Yaman: national
poet"
http://www.al-bab.com/bys/articles/waddah96.htm
Socotran Poetry http://www.soqotra.info/frameset.html?Main=main.html
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