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My lover asks me:
"What is the difference between me and the sky?"
The difference, my love,
Is that when you laugh,
I forget about the sky.
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Like a fish,
Quick and cowardly in love,
You killed a thousand women inside me
And became the queen.
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That March morning when you came walking toward me
Like a beautiful poem
The sun and the spring came with you.
On my desk the papers
Turned green
In front of me a cup of coffee
Became empty before I drank it
When you appeared
The running horses
In the painting on my wall
Left me
To run to you.
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I taught the children of the world
To spell your name,
And their lips changed into cherry trees.
I asked the wind
To comb the tresses of your coal black hair
But it refused,
Saying time was short,
And your hair was long.
Poems by Nizar Qabbani (aka Nizar Kabbani), translated by Bassam K. Frangieh and Clementina R. Brown, in the book "Arabian Love Poems"
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