#unfortunately it was paradise: selected poems

[flowerytale]

Mahmoud Darwish, from "Mural", Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems (tr. by Munir Akash & ‎Carolyn Forché)

[beljar]

I love the rainfall on the women of distant meadows. I love the glittering water and the scent of stone.

Mahmoud Darwish, from "Addresses for the Soul, outside this Place", diwan "Fewer Roses" (1986), Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems (Translated and Edited by Munir Akash and Carolyn Forché, with Sinan Antoon and A mira El-Zein)

[19burstraat]

wylan & kaz, the flipped coin

mahmoud darwish - unfortunately, it was paradise: selected poems, six of crows, six of crows, shadow and bone season 2, crooked kingdom, shakespeare - henry v, six of crows, crooked kingdom, kate bush - never be mine, will wood and the tapeworms - 6up 5oh cop-out (pro/con), six of crows, crooked kingdom, ? , six of crows, crooked kingdom

[de4dfairy]

1.  Christina Marie Brown, Ghost I | 2. Mitski - A Burning Hill | 4. jovialtorchlight 7. as i was moving ahead occasionally i saw brief glimpses of beauty (2000) | 8. Mahmoud Darwish, from Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems; “The Flute Cried,”

[garadinervi]

Mahmoud Darwish (محمود درويش), I Belong There [from 'Fewer Roses' (1986)], in Unfortunately, It Was Paradise. Selected Poems, Translated and Edited by Munir Akash and Carolyn Forché (with Sinan Antoon and Amira El-Zein), University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, and London, 2003, p. 7

[deanjohn]

Dexter | Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë | Dexter: True Blood | Sharp Objects “Milk” | Mahmoud Darwish, from "Mural", Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems (tr. by Munir Akash & Carolyn Forché) | Richard Siken | Long Distance Call | Unknown | When the Levee Breaks

[feral-ballad]

Evening darling

Could you suggest me some books, collections of arabic poetry, if you have any?✍(◔◡◔)

I read some quotes on your blog and they mesmerized me.(★‿★)

quite a tricky one because the english translations for them are not very accessible and i've read the majority in their original language. but i'll list down the ones i’ve read & that do have translations! 🫀

A River Dies of Thirst: Journals by Mahmoud Darwish

Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems by Mahmoud Darwish

Republic of Love: Selected Poems by Nizar Qabbani

Arabian Love Poems by Nizar Qabbani

The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Adonis: Selected Poems

Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women (ed. Kamal Boullata)

The poetry of Arab women: A Contemporary Anthology (ed. Nathalie Handal)

An anthology of modern Arabic poetry (ed. Mounah A. Khouri and Hamid Algar)

Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology (ed. Salma Khadra Jayyusi)

and i recommend checking out my #arabic literature tag (if you haven’t already) !! 🏷 ♡ 🪹🦢

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Moonlight - Winslow Homer (1874)

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“No night is long enough for us to dream twice.” ― Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

[llovelymoonn]

Web weaving about the pain of knowing that you suffer but yiu continue to live for others anyway?

mahmoud darwish unfortunately, it was paradise: selected poems: "the flute cried" (via @mournfulroses) \\ kurt vonnegut mother night \\ jules ryan gravecleaner: "finale" (2020) (via @springmyth) \\ georges bataille erotism: death and sensuality

kofi

[ethereal-muses]

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

– Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

[dk-thrive]

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

Mahmoud Darwish, “The Hoopoe,” Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems. (University of California Press, 2003) (via The Vale of Soul Making)

[flowerytale]

Mahmoud Darwish, from “Mural”, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems (tr. by Munir Akash & ‎Carolyn Forché)

[beljar]

What will come-what will come after the ashes?

Mahmoud Darwish, from "Why Have You Left the Horse Alone?" (1995), Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems (Translated and Edited by Munir Akash and Carolyn Forché, with Sinan Antoon and A mira El-Zein)

[muhtesemz]

The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read.

They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.

- Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

[darkpoetrynprose]

“Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?”  ― Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

[abeautifulcraze]

“I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.” ― Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems