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Some nectar is me and the orange is you

Literature & culture

Some nectar is me and the orange is you

Muhammad Al-Makki Ibrahim

Oh my God, mulatto

O bar furnished with sand

O bleary-eyed one

With a twisted verse of a song

Oh, a watered-colored rose

Some nectar i

And the orange is you

Oh, full of legs and mulatto children

Oh some nigger

And some Arabic

And some of my sayings before God

* * *

From a subscription, he bought the scent of cloves

From the breath of an evening

Or the coasts of the island's waist

Or the island's waist

From the ocean wave

And morning hugs

From a subscription purchased

The wound has a sheath

And sorrows have an elegy

From a subscription purchased

From me and from you

Crying dates

And generations of slavery

Who bought me a subscription, mulatto?

Am I selling my face?

And my words before God

* * *

Let them ask about you. What palm trees have you seen?

Ramla Karmalek

Washed and watered

And let them ask about you, the embrace of the Gulf, when

With some of your goodness

The dream lured a nymph

And let them ask about you, the groups of invaders saw

We gore like you gore, and the days are guided

* * *

To ask

Every moon will be narrated

Something of poetry

About your breasts at dawn

And let them ask

He says: The sword and the travels.

Oh orange

They said they drink you

So that the diaphragm no longer contains nectar

And they have a fever

Until there is a market for all kinds of immoralities

And now Raja

The pitcher and the jug remained

It kept giving

And the cups are turned.

* * *

He shook the stem of the spring at you

And he took a shower

From the sadness of your past

In vision and determination

He shook at you

The castle towers are rising

Bees roamed the pastures

And I give you sweet peace

The east is red

And blessings be upon you, Izar

She runs and they walk back

Until we continue the journey

* * *

The ball floated in the eyes of your lovers

They came back to you with dreams

What is the matter with the arrajans?

Gulf pilots do not have a mine

The spring has fallen asleep and all creatures are asleep

Except me

And the smell

And the spears of your guards stand up

* * *

When did you get over them?

I come leaping to you

My hair is at night

And my embrace is full of roses

Leave the door open

And my luck in bed is warm

And may the burdens of scent be fulfilled for me

And the singing of the spring and the trees

Let's have a long talk

With your breasts at dawn.

Oh orange

Meeting hours are short

* * *

Look at me a little, the morning is coming

The sea is teak

And palm trees are woven

The palace pool in Yellowover was crowded

And the bees filled the cups of flowers before

And now I am as beautiful as I can be

And I have been younger since my youth

And covered with a new light

Look at me, the islands are about to come

-I'm going-

And with the new tide I will come

Did you know me?

In the bed and the waves

In the strong storm

And in my death and resurrection I will come

So say, “You know me.”

I have engraved my pieces and composition

In the rock and sand between the sparklers

And I have become a reminder in the tablet of passion

And now

Not satisfied with the goodness of your flesh

Or Rayyan who poured your breasts spent

So promise me that you will invite me

To your bed another night

And you make it look long on me with your hair

In my ulna

Your color is in my color and composition

I was lost in you, so embrace me

To the graves of tropical flowers

To tears

And generations of slavery

Take my remains

And wrap me in your arm

How sweet is your scent?

How strong you are

Naked, Negro, and some Arab

And some of my sayings before God

Wherever you dig in this dirt

The remains emerge from an ancient death

Muhammad Al-Makki Ibrahim

There are also treasures  underground in this earth

There are also mines

There are also graves:

There are tropical villages

He descended upon her from heaven

A barrel packed with shrapnel and nails,

There were soldiers surrounded

They raised the white flag

Thinking that they are surrendering to the enemy

Not for his knives.

After the first rain

New herbs will grow:

The ears of oil and millet will emerge with the ears of revenge

And Bulbulah’s hoarse singing

From its hiding places, ghosts will emerge

With their scarred heads and clotted blood

Which will flow forever

So be careful, boys!

Oh, oil workers

Oh, clean-shaven peasant women with cheerful turbans

And you too, you ignorant politicians

In this African soil, it is easy to bulldoze

And under this tropical rain

Nothing stays buried forever.

A salamander on the verge of absence

D. Muhammad Abdel-Hay

(1)

If he was lost in his seafaring, then he would be lost

-Through the time of the sea- and salt will be carved from his crystalline bones

Gardens made of seashells that light up on summer moonlit nights

On the sands of the coast of absence

(2)

She is on her loom, waiting

Sometimes you go forward in time, and sometimes you go backwards in time

For a moment they shine outside of time where they meet

For a while away, for a while back

(3)

They were singing on the rock, the strands spread out

Phosphorus flowers on the bay

The green body is watered with the color of the sea

And saturated with the honey of poisonous lilies

(4)

In the uplifting dream at night, water mirrors

Strange inscriptions and names

He could see the bees swarming busy on the trunks of old trees; And the roots

It sucks the flesh of the earth in its blind, clay lust

(5)

When he shouted, I became the receding wave

He saw birds in the summer to their scattered nests

get used to; And the blood that foams, in its purest presence, on the dirt

And the salamander, engulfed in fire, stood on the rock on the edge of absence

(6)

And on her loom, waiting

In silence, after the end of the night and before the beginning of the day

Eavesdrop on the conversation

Between sea and land, the sound of the ancient language is heard

The language is older than arguments of victory and defeat

The oldest and purest of migration and return to ports of sorrow and waiting

In the still nothingness, between the language of the sea and the form of fire

In exile

Salah Ahmed Ibrahim

Have you ever tasted the shame of color?

And I saw people pointing at you and calling out:

Black slave?

Have you ever watched the boys play eagerly?

And tenderness

When you are about to shout with a heart full of compassion

How creative is the foolishness of the boys!

They saw you and ran after you in wedding:

Black slave

Black slave

Black slave..?

Have you ever tasted hunger while abroad?

And sleeping on wet ground

Solid bare earth

The bend of the forearm cushions itself in the cursed cold

Anya Tawaf arouses suspicions in the eyes

You hear the whispering of the people, you see the winking of the women

And in Lebanon

Your wound festers in the stabbed heart

It bears the color of a fang's cuticle like a curse

Human feelings squirm around you

She shouts with a choked heart:

And the humiliation of black people in exile

In a country where people are measured by colours!

* * *

One week and two weeks have passed

And I'm hungry

Hungry and no heart cares

Thirsty and fed up with drink

The Nile is far away

The Nile is far away

People have everything new

And I'm alone...

Broken-hearted on the day of Eid

Decorative lights and noise mock me

My troubled thoughts mock me

And I'm alone..

In the isolation of an Indian outcast

I represent my mother, my brothers,

The next half of the night is the entire Qur’an

In my country

In the remote country of my friends

Al-Asam is behind the sea and behind the desert

In my country

Where a stranger is cherished, the guest is loved

It is reserved for the last dose of water in the height of summer

Have dinner for the children

Wetting humans and humans when the situation gets rough [1]

And I began to sing in sorrow, my pain was evident

Oh bird of migration...oh bird

Oh bird, your destination is my country

Take me by God, I am on guard

I clipped my wings

I was in a corner, laying down my luggage

The shadow receded and he went to the other shadow

* * *

But the bird left me

He did not understand what I was rich about.

Exile and kingdom

Al-Nour Othman Abkar

I never left my father's house

To wander into a cave in the desert

I cover what the palms of the wind have woven in the pattern of silence

And feed from the Lord's table

And I will listen carefully and spread the pole of sight that the path may shine

A foal is churning, and in the blink of an eye, all the atmosphere of the world is enveloped in me

And the desired hereafter and the vision

When I return, I will reveal to you the secret of the meeting

I swore by the gray hair on my father’s head and by my mother’s sanctity:

An angel of the Lord came to me at night

He split his chest and drowned his fingertips in a sea of blood

Then take away fear and the smell of curse, and untie my tongue

He baptized me

And relieved my forehead, set me free

Who conquers need and time

I narrated to you what you are too clever to understand and the clever tricks you are too tired of

Since I am close to the remains of eternity

In the embrace of eternal twilight I was made to drink wine from silver cups

From the young hands of young children

My regrets are the messengers of the East and the West

The tune didn't get hoarse and we didn't get tired

Because there are rivers in wine

And the beautiful houris go and come without a garment

The shadow tempted me, so I was excluded

       ***

You sanctified Rebekah: my father’s house

My cradle, my exile and my kingdom

In it I suffered the unknowns of the forbidden, and I came to baptize you.

Positions

Muhammad Othman Kajari

This poem is related to the circumstance of place, time, and its title

First position

I didn't know that I was

When I enter the homelands, you meet me

With an ignorant dark threat

In its law, I am the first suspect on earth

And in all aspects of the seasons

I must hear something hurtful before entering

So listen to me, I really know what I'm saying

I do not know how to wipe on felt or gourd

Drums

Second position

Here they are now holding a prayer of thanksgiving in the shade

Guarding

Then they add legends to the one sitting on the throne

Holiness

And the country of the green song deteriorates in the bottom

Unhappiness

The face of this one who was exhausted by hunger and bankruptcy

Politics??

The history controversy intensifies

The standards of discourse are extended

My children, the wind dreams of remaining a nucleus

Alienation

And the soldiers are still young

They were also the tool of the coup

Third position

This is the whisper of the hour that ravages the seconds

And the minutes

When the colors of fires pour out from the forest

Behind the firelight thousands of truths are exposed

Nero's face changed

Through the tragic scene, it becomes more horrific

The tongue of fire extends to greenery in its splendor

Al-Mada'in

People fled naked and barefoot

In the swamp of death there are no signs of ships

What remained was burned by fire in the midst of ambushes

Sixth position

O Abu Al-Tayeb, indeed:

He who is humiliated will be easily humiliated

There is no pain for a dead wound

If injustice breathes a throne, then justice must have peace in time

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