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Arabian Peninsula antiquity poems: Wars, Love crazed
Note: Re-edit of “Love crazed, Wars.. in Arabian antiquity poems May 22, 2015
Love crazed, Wars.. in antiquity Arabic poems
Loving crazily Leila
I see us in my daydream: 2 gazelles
Peacefully grazing, in the distant pastures of Hawzan
I see us in the desert: 2 pigeons flying back to our nest
Two fish in the waves of the great sea
I see us together in the tomb.
Retreated far away from the world
We will watch a new life resuscitated.
The universe reunited, the meeting eternal
(Majnun Layla (Qays ibn Mullawa3) was denied his wedding with cousin Leila and died very young.
After his death, the legend says that this poet was recognized as the poet laureate of the tribe.
War as described by Zuhair ibn Abi Salma
War is what you have witnessed
It’s not a conjecture
As you ignite war, it surges abominable
As young you excite for war, war flares up
Out of control
War will grind you to the bones
Twice ignited per year, war will produces twins
As sinister as the red star Aad
The more you breastfeed these twins
The more devastated and laid to waste are the villages in Iraq.
(Zuhair ibn Abi Salma lived long and witnessed the emergence of Islam.)
He is famous for the opening line:
“When you live to be 80, without a father, you are doomed to boredom”
Love crazed, Wars.. in Arabic antiquity poems
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 22, 2015
Love crazed, Wars.. in antiquity Arabic poems
Loving crazily Leila
I see us in my daydream: 2 gazelles
Peacefully grazing, in the distant pastures of Hawzan
I see us in the desert: 2 pigeons flying back to our nest
Two fish in the waves of the great sea
I see us together in the tomb.
Retreated far away from the world
We will watch a new life resuscitated.
The universe reunited, the meeting eternal
Majnun Layla (Qays ibn Mullawa3) was denied his wedding with cousin Leila and died very young.
After his death, the legend says that this poet was recognized as the poet laureate of the tribe.
War as described by Zuhair ibn Abi salma
War is what you have witnessed
It’s not a conjecture
As you ignite war, it surges abominable
As little you excite for war, war flares up
Out of control
War will grind you to the bones
Twice ignited per year, war will produces twins
As sinister as the red star Aad
The more you breastfeed these twins
The more devastated and laid to waste are the villages in Iraq.
Zuhair ibn Abi Salma lived long and witnessed the emergence of Islam.
He is famous for the opening line:
“When you live to be 80, without a father, you are doomed to boredom”