even in the posters of advertisements your love has taught me to wander around, for hours searching for a gypsies hair that all gypsies women will envy searching for a face, for a voice which is all the faces and all the voices… Your love entered me…my lady into the cities of sadness and I before you, never entered the cities of sadness I did not know… that tears are the person that a person without sadness is only a shadow of a person… Your love taught me to behave like a boy to draw your face with chalk upon the wall upon the sails of fishermen's boats on the Church bells, on the crucifixes, your love taught me, how love, changes the map of time… Your love taught me, that when I love the earth stops revolving, Your love taught me things that were never accounted for So I read children's fairytales I entered the castles of Jennies and I dreamt that she would marry me the Sultan's daughter those eyes. Syrian diplomat, poet, essayist and playwright, one of the most popular love poets in the Arab world. As I w Published posthumously, this book is a collection of Qabbani's love poems, with its pages split in two- one side of the pages had Nizar's original poetry in Arabic, and on the. Chapter Six analyses the poems composed by Nizr on the October War in.
Your love taught me to grieve and I have been in need, for centuries a woman to make me grieve for a woman, to cry upon her arms like a sparrow for a woman to gather my pieces like shards of broken crystal Your love has taught me, my lady, the worst habits it has taught me to read my coffee cups thousands of times a night to experiment with alchemy, to visit fortune tellers It has taught me to leave my house to comb the sidewalks and search your face in raindrops and in car lights and to peruse your clothes in the clothes of unknowns and to search for your image even….even…. Qabbani was definitely a genius- his Arabic poetry so piercing and straightforward, and yet profound with meaning and emotions with charming, sensual imagery. This seminar attempts to start a book project on the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998), one of most prominent Arab literary figures of the 20th Century. CHAPTER TWO: NIZAR QABBANIS CONCEPT OF POETRY. Published posthumously, this book is a collection of Qabbanis love poems, with its pages split in two- one side of the pages had Nizars original poetry in.