epub |eng | 2014-03-23 | Author:Najwan Darwish

Suleiman al-Halabi We remember your hand as we hear of those shaking hands with their executioners You were twenty-four years old when the sun rising over Syria ordered you to ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Bahiyeh Afnan Shahid [Shahid, Bahiyeh Afnan]

Stairs that climbed to the hothouse of desire. Stairs that went to the crypt of alcohol. Stairs that went to laws decreeing the decay of red roses, To the mathematical ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kabir Helminski

Spiritual Conversation SPIRITUAL CONVERSATION, OR SOHBET, IS THE HEART OF group practice. It is the connecting point of all the other activities: individual practice, group remembrance, music, study, social life, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Coleman Barks

1:368–369 THE CHAIN OF EVIDENCE Klave,26 a wanderer and a watcher, comes to the gate of a town and finds it controlled by a group of mean-looking characters. He decides ...

epub |eng | | Author:Annemarie Schimmel

Thus, each of us will see the results of our works in one way or another, and it is up to us to do whatever we can to achieve a ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-13 | Author:Garous Abdolmalekian & Idra Novey & Ahmad Nadalizadeh

Around Morning She does not tuck the sheet of morning neatly, leaves it wrinkled from last night. She stands at the window, allows death to slip down her throat to ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-07 | Author:Omar Sakr

*When I wrote this poem in 2017, I was referring to statistics from 2016. As I write this in 2018, I can tell you that in 2017 America dropped 40,000 ...

epub |eng | 2013-01-14 | Author:N. Sandars [Sandars, N. K.]

2 The Forest Journey Enlil of the mountain, the father of the gods, had decreed the destiny of Gilgamesh. So Gilgamesh dreamed and Enkidu said, ‘The meaning of the dream ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-13 | Author:Josette McMichael [McMichael, Josette]

Proverbs have been called the ‘molecules’ of popular literature, for they provide the ingredients for the myths, the folk tales, the epics, and folk poetry that express cultural identity…. Feelings ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-15 | Author:Elizabeth Arif-Fear

Blind Hearts Blindness When you’re trapped in the blackened depths of your soul’s inner desire, Engulfed in the raging flames of yourself, rising higher and higher. Where the cooling streams ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Mahmoud Darwish

epub |eng | 2012-02-26 | Author:Beau Beausoleil

Remembering al-Mutanabbi Thomas Christensen Some day we’ll stop making the goddam funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember, every ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2019-01-08 | Author:Robyn Creswell [Creswell, Robyn]

Heretical Origins These questions can helpfully illuminate what is al-Hajj’s most memorable and puzzling qasidat al-nathr, “The Bubble of Origin, or the Heretical Poem” (see the English translation at the ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-27 | Author:Meskoob, Shahrokh; Ghanoonparvar, M. R.;

i. “With woad, the world drew a crescent on the eyebrow of the feast / The crescent of the feast should be seen on the eyebrow of the beloved.” [From ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Coleman Barks [Barks, Coleman]

You and I in a round, unselved idling in the garden-beauty detail. The raucous parrots laugh, and we laugh inside their laughter, the two of us on a bench in ...