Selected Poems

You shall not escape
Shall not enjoy your sleep or wakefulness

Before you
Our dreams
Pens
and eyes

Before you
Our Walls
cement
and…

I slowly grind
Those questions that await no answer,

I tenderly shake
Those taboos embedded in my thought,

My eyelashes embrace
Those truest of…

In her fifties,
A woman’s chest
Carries the peaches of childhood,
The Butter of the youth,
And the olives of old age

In her fifties,
A woman’s heart…

I narrate my tales
I twist the necks of time
I extract my past –
I exist.

I enter into history, beautiful and radiant.

I spread my robe –
the…

When you’re away
I confess
That the earth rotates
The wind blows
The windmill revolves

When you’re here
I confess
That the solid dissolves
…

In his Memorial Ceremony / Amman / 15 September 2006

Tears

Tears return to every weeping eye,
Because they do not resemble you
Nor does the sun,
Nor…

The affection
Of pens to their length,
Of Paper to its words,
Of Words to their letters,
Of letters to their salt

The affection
Of birds to their…