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Posts Tagged ‘Palestinian Poets’

Samah Sabawi – Where Time Stood Still (English and Arabic)

By Guest Post • Dec 30th, 2009 • Category: Arabian Coffee House, Culture and Heritage, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

Gaza one year after operation cast lead
Don’t tell us a year has passed…
We don’t measure our lives by this calendar
Time has stood still for us so long ago
Punctuated only by loss and grief
And the in between moments of quite reprieve
We don’t count on Christmas, nor Eid for cheer
We don’t fool ourselves with “happy new year”
No [...]

Nizar Wattad (aka Ragtop) Free the P

By Guest Post • Jul 29th, 2009 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Features, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

I Place my palms to the East
where my people seek peace
And freedom from police control, checkpoints and patrols
Domination from another nation
We used to be brothers like Cain
Now they got us living under occupation the pain
Is just a feeling I can't possibly explain
But the population of Palestine could probably paint
A proper picture of their predicament to [...]

Nahida Izzat – I believe in Miracles

By Nahida Izzat • Dec 11th, 2008 • Category: Features, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

You can break my bones
My free spirit is invincible
You can cause me the loss of sight
The light of my insight
You’ll never take away
In the shadows of darkness
Lies the corpse of your might
You can destroy my house
The windows of my hope,
You cannot break
The pillars of my faith
You can never shake
You can threaten me
With weapons of death
And [...]