Untitled 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.
Untitled Like a fish, Quick and cowardly in love, You killed a thousand women inside me And became the queen.
Titled "Two" 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.
Titled "Seven" 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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