#arabic love poetry

[astereaus]

"Every winter an absent joy pains you. You walk into the rain, a single duo: you and the person you were in another winter."

— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

[hyxmzz]

~franz kafka, who never married and had no children, walk through the park in berlin when he met a lil girl who was crying because she had lost her favorite doll, she and kafka search for the doll unsuccessfully. kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her. the next day when they had not yet found the doll, kafka give the girl a letter written by the doll saying " please don't cry, i took the trip to see the world and i'll write to you about my adventure". thus begin a story which continued until the end of kafka's life. during their meetings, kafka read the letters of the dolls carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable. finally kafka brought back the doll he bought one that had return, it doesn't look like my doll the girl said, kafka handed over another letter in which the doll wrote : " my travel have changed me" the lil girl hugged the doll and brought her home. a year later kafka died. many years later the now adult girl found another letter inside the doll, in the tiny letter signed by kafka it was written "every thing you love will probably be lost but in the end love will return in another way".

[zegalba]

"Write to me, always

Even if it is little

Just don't stop"

[fairydrowning]

Love letter from 1913 that opens up to form an art gallery.

[droplets-of-neptune]

"If I were to carry you on my back

And roam the earth with you, the sweetness of your love would make me feel as though I am carrying a rose... So I neither tire nor grow weary in that."

[stillorbitingu]

Vocabulary, Safia Elhillo

[sapphopilled]

work song by hozier / mahmoud darwish

[jayvespertine]

“Birds born in a cage believe that freedom is a crime”

[perfectfeelings]

Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.

Arabic Proverb

[perfectquote]

Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.

Arabic Proverb

[thoughtkick]

Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.

Arabic Proverb

[astereaus]

"All of a sudden, a light rain falls and drenches your soul, and the butterflies."

— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

[hyxmzz]

when QB said “tu toh na mila, yunhi chal diya. leke mera dil jane tu kahan.” and Kavish replied with “jaunga kahan, main tou hun yahan. tere dil ki ahaton main hun.” i tell you there’s NOT a single more tragically beautiful exchange of lyrics that exists. None.

[mysterieuxclairdelune]

Until my heart beats for the last time,

only then, perhaps, I would stop loving you.

Perhaps.

-Ahmed Khaled Tawfik

[feral-ballad]

Deema K. Shehabi, ed. by Nathalie Handal, from The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology; “The Glistening”

[Text ID: "creating the deep gnawing of love, / a love which makes you want to leave your skin behind."]

[strokeofserenity]

“Killing the flowers will not delay spring.”

(Al-Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, Syria)

LITTLE PALESTINE, DIARY OF A SIEGE (2021) DIR. ABDALLAH AL-KHATIB