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Slip a knife into the edge of a shell It captures a light this greatest pearl Why is it smashed against that doctor’s gate? Our eyes roll up and bodies rigid We invested a thoughtful look in his eyes The news came to the doctor He wondered whether he had baptized The foaming waves of…
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Listening to the distant calls, And sauntering by the sea The water evokes sounds, Only the heart can perceive Will morphs into a prism, The colors it comes to recognize It shakes hands with Wisdom, And thoughts soon materialize A poet’s dream is a forbidden planet, Where pens do the killing, And Love steps in…
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Danger and discomfort Like the love agony of cats Struggles freeze With terror for moments And harmony was silent And pain was command …Moans in the darkness like the moon among the clouds.
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The news came early, and still, they wished they had more.The essence of life seemed tangled with the essence of men, and saints alike.Everyone suddenly felt connected to the news. Images formed, of dreams once considered, of paths long abandoned as impossible.The men looked back in regret.The saints, however, looked forward.They bought new clothes.The Good…
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Metaphysics, you see, brings bitter friends The chorus of saints, prophets and sages break in The mind probes the night When senses go to the place by the side post The place where Love is buried Eyes open in the darkness A touch of a foot on earth Grounded and a brew of questions grow…
Hadi Atallah 