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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1. SOLITUDE, by 'ENAYAT JABER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boxes, %having waited so long
Last Line: Or heed the evils of bad company
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


2. CLARITY, by 'ENAYAT JABER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My desire is %to open the door, %even when the knock is faint
Last Line: A moment is not moments, %or a place to let go
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


24 AT THE DOOR OF ANTICIPATION, by HALA MOHAMMAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sat %weaving seconds %on a tiny straw chair
Last Line: At the door of anticipation, %I have chairs lined up
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


27, by LINA TIBI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Striding, shuddering %I leave behind a summer, a winter
Last Line: It is only when listening to you %that I love my life
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


3. SMELL, by 'ENAYAT JABER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Small but splendid is, %the disappearing vision
Last Line: Why the ribbons when they kill my poetry?
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


4 WHAT AM I CHASING?, by HALA MOHAMMAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: From afar I beheld him %like a magic carriage
Last Line: No trace of him %no trace
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


4. CIRCLE, by 'ENAYAT JABER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He breathed deeply, %when the street awoke
Last Line: Overflows from her hands, roaming %on his back
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


43 THE MAN WHO OFFERS ME HIS CHEST, by HALA MOHAMMAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: To whose chest I give my five senses %has long been placing
Last Line: Been giving his chest %just a head
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


58 LOVE BURNED OUT THE LIGHT, by HALA MOHAMMAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: With all my possessions %I listened to it
Last Line: My walls %until the darkness was burned
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


A FANTASY, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was an arab
Last Line: And all my woe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Arabs; Homesickness


ABANDONMENT, by AL-ZAHRA AL- MANSOURI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like an extinguished star, %in the sea's bed she sleeps
Last Line: Salwa, the remnants of grief
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


ABOUT THE MEN, by ADELE NE JAME    Poem Source                    
First Line: The white moon, perfect %in the desert sky, in its precisely
Last Line: Somewhere, the inaccuracy %beginning
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


ABSENT, by MAY MUZAFFAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: When pigeons returned %to the roof of the house, we said
Last Line: Wrote upon the clouds' palm a symbol %and hid within the folds of words
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


AFTER, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We had been looking at an idol in a glass case
Last Line: There is absence, unreadable
Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Graves; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


ALL OVER REHAVIA, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And all the children %have gone back to school
Subject(s): Arabs; Europe; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


ALTHOUGH THE SKY..., by ELMAZ ABINADER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reaches down like a hood %and meets the horizon on my left and right
Last Line: To the next, sun set and moon rise %in one breath
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


AN ARAB WELCOME, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because thou com'st, a weary guest
Last Line: With the same pleasure that he gives him bread!
Subject(s): Arabs


AND THEN YOU WERE PEELING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our luggage unopened %at the door
Subject(s): Arabs; Hearts; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


AND YOU ON MY BIRTHDAY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Prayer %on a grain of rice
Subject(s): Arabs; Birthdays; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


ARAB AND JEW IN ALASKA, by GREGORY ORFALEA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two sons of sem, called by an unknown
Last Line: And alone. Someday, again, %home
Subject(s): Alaska; Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews


ARABIAN BALLAD, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the rock -- on the trail
Last Line: They could not rise into the air.
Subject(s): Arabs


ARABIC (JORDAN, 1992), by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man with laughing eyes stopped smiling
Last Line: In every language and opened its doors.
Subject(s): Arabic Language; Arabs - Women; Grief; Jordan; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


ARABINNOCENTS, by JOANNA KADI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tuesday, torrential downpours blackened %every corner of the sky
Last Line: Open a hole %dissolve the rock
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


ARABS, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Melancholy lieth dolorously ill
Subject(s): Arabs


ARGUMENTS, by LISA SUHAIR MAJAJ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Consider the infinite fragility of an infant's skull
Last Line: How in these words %the world %cracks open
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


AS IF IN FLAW, OR IN THE FLAW OF SPACE, SELS, by SABAH AL-KHARRAT ZWEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: An abysmal circle is in the sky. At the moment we are an infinite line
Last Line: Now I stand below the arch of the old window, the opposite window. %today, the face is in the sky
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


ASPARAGUS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I saw the asparagus stand up in one bunch
Last Line: Have to watch where we're going or simply make do
Subject(s): Arabs; Asparagus; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Vegetables


AUTUMN ROSE, by AMAL MOUSSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In crystal %I slept for three seasons, %then the drunkenness of sleep awoke me
Last Line: Grass bursts forth, %and in autumn %my rose blooms
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


AWAKENING, by FAWZIYYA AL- SINDI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Awaken, %oh, boughs of passion %saddle the wind with your exhausted words
Last Line: Shaking the boughs of fear and love... %awaken
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


BAALBECK, by NADIA TUENI    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the sun strikes a tall dead tree
Last Line: Baalbeck is a gift from the world of measures
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


BANNERS OF THE HEART, by FAWZIYYA AL- SINDI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I confess %I disperse, %like blood shed from the soil's raindrops
Last Line: My voice besieged as a river as it reads
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


BECAUSE THEY HESITATED BETWEEN ROSES AND DARKNESS, by VENUS KHOURY-GHATA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because they loaded their rifles with rain
Last Line: When they draw a blade in the mouth of a sundial
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


BECAUSE YOU HAVE EVERYTHING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To measure a fence
Subject(s): Arabs; Depression, Mental; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


BEDOUIN EYES, by DIMA HILAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: My hands turn to claws, tear %newspapers declare war
Last Line: Weakens %forces my body to sink to the floor
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


BEDOUIN WOMEN, by SHULAMIT APFEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where did that bedouin woman %get all her strength
Last Line: Leading himself, entirely awake, weaned, tasting milk in the air
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


BEDOUIN [LOVE] SONG, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: From the desert I come to thee
Last Line: And the leaves of the judgment book unfold!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Arabs; Love


BEIRUT, by CLAIRE GEBEYLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: For beirut I write
Last Line: Whiteness the tombstones and the cornfields
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


BEIRUT, by NADIA TUENI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let her be courtesan, scholar or saint
Last Line: Where man can dress himself in light
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


BLACK INK BLACK PAINT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Whiter %and more strange
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Paintings And Painters; Palestine


BLIND CITY, by MONA SAUDI    Poem Source                    
First Line: In its streets my visions multiply %in the chaos of objects
Last Line: There, life glows in an instant %born in a puddle of light
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


BLIND GODDESS, by FADHILA CHABBI    Poem Source                    
First Line: And the blind goddess, when we touched her %like a twinkling of the eye
Last Line: And it was the insolence of the ages
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


BOAT ON THE PACIFIC, by NAJAAT AL- UDWANY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Age is what chaff %that shudders %in the palms of the tempest
Last Line: She is calling upon us %to come to her bosom, %which is swollen with woes!
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


BOY IN A HOSPITAL, by DIANA HELEN MELHEM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Boy in a hospital %lying among suddenly ancient ruins
Last Line: To run along the beach %your hand safely in your father's
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


BREATH, by DEEMA K. SHEHABI    Poem Source                    
First Line: You come to me from the oldest wound of wind
Last Line: And suddenly catch you in the deepest edges of their children's eyes
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


BROKEN AND BEIRUT, by SUHEIR HAMMAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: No mistakes made here %these murders are precise %mathematical
Last Line: And how sweet honey %on the lips of survivors
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


BUTTERFLIES OF ANXIETY, by NAJAAT AL- UDWANY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A vein under my skin %sneaking. %your blood, %which reminds me of the swords
Last Line: A sea %nor found %before me someone to fight!
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


CARGO MOVING TO GAZA (1988), by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tree donated years back struggles
Subject(s): Arabs; Israel (state); Life; Middle East - Conflicts; Arab-israeli Conflict


CARTHAGE, by NAJAAT AL- UDWANY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the desert %between my folds- %the memory laments
Last Line: Would you accept %my suicide?
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


CEDARS, by NADIA TUENI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I salute you, %you who draw life %from a single root
Last Line: I love you as man loves breath %you are the first poem
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


CEMETERY AT PETIT SACONNEX, by DEEMA K. SHEHABI    Poem Source                    
First Line: No earthbound morning is this %when we walk together
Last Line: To the parched blossom of time, %wrinkled with longing
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


CHADOR, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a taxi in isfahan we have no language
Last Line: As the river bosoms the brooch of the sun.
Subject(s): Arabs - Women; Travel; Journeys; Trips


CHALDEAN RUINS, by DUNYA MIKHAIL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ascetic %he emerges from its belly into the grave
Last Line: What happened, or what is left
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


CHARTREUSE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far away in the french alps near grenoble the carthusian monks
Last Line: The airport falls, if it isn't the life we expected, something close
Subject(s): Arabs; Herbs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins


CHILDHOOD, by HODA HUSSEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want to make a toast to some victory
Last Line: With the tip of a thermometer %up her bottom
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


CHOKING, by SANIYYAH SALEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every time I am bound towards you %my roads turn into dust
Last Line: Go back to your death %mythic woman
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


CHOLERA, by NAZIK AL- MALAIKA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is night. %listen to the echoing wails
Last Line: O egypt, my heart is torn by the ravages of death
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


CITY LEVITATES, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I'm back %in the unmade bed
Subject(s): Arabs; Cities; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


COMMANDMENTS, by LAMIA ABBAS AMARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: All no's become yes's under the law %don't lie. %lie!
Last Line: And each coin two sides %and so justice %and so freedom
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


COUNTRY, by FAWZIYYA ABU-KHALID    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her hair is long, very, very long
Last Line: She bathes in rain gushing forth her lap %and she dreams
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


COUNTRY,SELS, by DIANA HELEN MELHEM    Poem Source                    
First Line: To write the country %as a poem
Last Line: Retaining the once-dazzled vision %as a portable lost occasion
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


CUSP OF DESIRE, by MAYSOUN SAQR AL- QASIMI    Poem Source                    
First Line: He is the source of hot forests
Last Line: It's then that he shrinks
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


DAILY RITUAL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The world ali says %and dreams
Subject(s): Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay); Arabs; Boxing And Boxers; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets


DANGER, MEN IN TREES, by DORIS SAFIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Quietly, they take on the color and shape
Last Line: I'd change his course forever
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


DAWN FAIRY, by DUNYA MIKHAIL    Poem Source                    
First Line: You are changing... %you have changed greatly
Last Line: And out of our longing make %a home for all the birds
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


DEAREST LOVE, by SALMA KHADRA JAYYUSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dearest love, listen
Last Line: I married my cousin after all
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


DEATH OF RACHEL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day she stirs the soup
Last Line: She stirs the dust into dust
Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


DEPARTURE, by MAI SAYIGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this the moment of departure, %point your red arrows
Last Line: Now you collect all the wounds, taking refuge with %death, %wearing dreams as wings
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


DIASPORA, by S. V. ATALLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: After so long %to stand at your dresser %hairpins %in the dusty cup
Last Line: And every day your smooth hair %holding them all together
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


DIFFERENT MORNING ALTOGETHER, by DIMA HILAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rain thunders on the roof %the balcony railing %and umbrellas of kids
Last Line: But I only hear the rush of rain
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


DOOR OF ROSES, by MUNIA SAMARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Doomsday of wind %talk of the garden %ambush of rubies
Last Line: Everything in it %reveals hateful desire
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


DOOR OF THE CITIES, by MUNIA SAMARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The scandal of this universe %and its joke
Last Line: And on its borders bark %the enemies' rifles
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


DRACULA, by SALWA AL- NEIMI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Revolting against the lips %the long pointed fang was facing me
Last Line: Myopic, I pretended to watch the passersby
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


DREAM RECALLING A TEMPTATION, by MAYSOUN SAQR AL- QASIMI    Poem Source                    
First Line: ...And when he was awakened by the cold, she was washing her hair
Last Line: All in all on the verge of transfiguration
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


ELEGY OF A KNIGHT: 1. SEPTEMBER, by FADWA TUQAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Death's carnival was at its height, amman
Last Line: Give us your catch, o sea, for this day is a feast, %oh what a feast!
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


ELEGY OF A KNIGHT: 2. THE REDEEMER, by FADWA TUQAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the paroxysm of blood and fire, and the flood of insanity
Last Line: From the ashes of death he shall come, %his death is birth, he shall surely come
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


EMACIATED TEETH, by FATMA KANDIL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where do these trees come form %like a volcano pressing on the window
Last Line: The scrolls were lifted off %the spearheads of boughs
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


EMBROIDERED MEMORY, by LORENE ZAROU-ZOUZOUNIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Arabic tapestry embroidered %into my soul %is my memory %of home
Last Line: Growing with design %to touch, wear, display %a memory %of home
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


EMPEROR OF CHINA, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember the boy who played with a rope
Last Line: Wrings on the rag and wipes them again
Subject(s): Arabs; Courts And Courtiers; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


ENGRAVING TWENTY-NINE, by FADHILA CHABBI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I left nothing behind me
Last Line: The sea snake slithers from one culture to another
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


ENHEDUANNA AND GOETHE, by AMAL AL- JUBURI    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are both different: %you thought and spoke your verses
Last Line: But all of that from behind a veil
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


EVIL HAS BEEN COMMITTED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: We will have to fall back on
Subject(s): Arabs; Evil; Fasts And Feasts; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Yom Kippur


EXILE, by SANIYYAH SALEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: For grief %he wore those colorful bells
Last Line: The borders of my grave
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


FAILURE, by LINA TIBI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can't talk to you now
Last Line: I will stretch my loneliness %a bed, %for you to sleep
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


FALSE...FALSE, by THURAYYA MALHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: False...False %everything is false %under the sun %above the sun
Last Line: Under the sun %above the sun %and around
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


FATHER PUMPKIN; OR, ALWAYS IN LUCK; AN ARABIAN TALE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In cairo once there dwelt a worthy man
Last Line: Blessing mohammed's and fatima's name!
Subject(s): Arabs


FEBRUARY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The park hangs on to what keeps growing
Last Line: To the end feel like %becoming?
Subject(s): Arabs; February; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Snow; Winter


FIRST LIGHT, by LISA SUHAIR MAJAJ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Between dreams and day an immense distance
Last Line: Rinse the brine from my name
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


FIRST THING, by MOHJA KAHF    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am hajar the immigrant
Last Line: Each step is blood, is risk: %is prayer
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


FIVE HYMNS TO PAIN, by NAZIK AL- MALAIKA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It gives our nights sorrow and pain; %it fills our eyes with sleeplessness
Last Line: We have hidden you in our dreams, %in every note of our sad songs
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


FLASH, by MAY MUZAFFAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your face is the unexplored earth... %a night's sea and parades
Last Line: The wind takes over, hides it and laughs... %amid the pigeons' wings
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


FLOOR KEEPS TURNING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: She looks at her watch
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Time


FOLLOW ME, by NADA EL- HAGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sir, how much do you need %of laughter and tears
Last Line: Than to write you %in the size of my love!
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


FORGETTING LOVE, by NATHALIE HANDAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am not afraid of loving, I am afraid of forgetting I loved
Last Line: So that they could remember for me
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


FORGETTING' HE SAID, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And what we had wanted %to forget
Subject(s): Arabs; Aviation And Aviators; Hotels; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Travel


FORMAL POEM, by AMAL MOUSSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the old house %where my grandfather composed his formal poems
Last Line: In the old house %love wears us like a cape %and the courtyard becomes %twice its size
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


FOURTEENTH ODE, by SEKEENA SHABEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm not sure of my age; descending pale %robes distant fluttering
Last Line: Garbage trucks roll outside my open window %it must be 4 am
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


FRIENDS, by MAY MUZAFFAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like the water's outflow, the dream continues to bleed
Last Line: And no message but pigeons' moans will come
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


FULL FACE, by ANDREE CHEDID    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes I lie in wait %for the death I will be
Last Line: Then suddenly I turn and resume %my stretch of life
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


GENEALOGY OF FIRE, by KHALED MATTAWA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My sister held an old piece of bread
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Arabs; Family Life; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives


GEOMETRY OF THE SOUL, by FAWZIYYA ABU-KHALID    Poem Source                    
First Line: You trick your thorny rope with little joys
Last Line: As if the only thing we had in common %was the shroud
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


GHAFLAH-THE SIN OF FORGETFULNESS, by DIMA HILAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Born by the mediterranean %our mothers bathe us in orange-blossom water
Last Line: And tell each other %how much we miss our home
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


GHURBA, SELS, by RAWIA MORRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Powerless %what we are guarding %has been violated %again and again
Last Line: I have not found my home %but I have learned %to live %in my voice
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


GLANCE, by DHABYA KHAMEES    Poem Source                    
First Line: You walk on air... %enraptured inside, %your heart flying in all directions
Last Line: With the secret beauty...In the faces of other human beings
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


GLISTENING, by DEEMA K. SHEHABI    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are mountains on this earth %that savor the sun at the end of the day
Last Line: Enemy of melancholy, ally of life, %glistening darkly %in silence
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


GOING FORTH, by ANDREE CHEDID    Poem Source                    
First Line: You come from the ages' origin
Last Line: Death held in reserve %and song!
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


GORAN'S WHISPERS, by NATHALIE HANDAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Travel through evenings without memories with memories
Last Line: Afraid that they will be killed over and over again
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


GULF, by DHABYA KHAMEES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sea stares at my dream %(I cannot come to the sea's aid)
Last Line: And of humans (ablaze with the heat %of my sun)
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


HANDFULS OF WIND, by LAILA HALABY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This summer I caught handfuls of wind
Last Line: You gave me at birth %to ward off evil
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


HAUNTING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If all she remembered at the end
Last Line: At my [or, your] daughter with her eyes?
Subject(s): Arabs; Children; Daughters; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


HER HEART IS A ROSE PETAL AND HER SKIN IS GRANITE, by LORENE ZAROU-ZOUZOUNIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman refugee arms herself with pride and faith
Last Line: Through a granite skin that stretches %but never breaks
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


HOME, by PAULINE KALDAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world map %colored yellow and green
Last Line: I fly across %and land- %hands pressing into rooted earth
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


HUBRIS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The loom is computerized
Last Line: Where will they hide him %when the romans come?
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sacrifices


HUMBLY, HE SPEAKS TO HIS TOOLS, by VENUS KHOURY-GHATA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bone driller of every abscess %clay in lieu of womb
Last Line: No key to open these stones %and cry on his house's shoulder
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


I AM CONSECRATED TO THE COMING ONE, by WAFAA' LAMRANI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dawn comes out of its vast silence %crowned by the whispers of the valley
Last Line: Everything falls down %except air %...It never becomes lighter!
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


I CAN NO LONGER CARE FOR THE DYING, by BRENDA J. MOOSSY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My muse was imprisoned once %six months encased in stone %outside of hebron
Last Line: When they know, %finally and for certain, %they are mortal, after all
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


I FOUND ONE WORD, by THERESE AWWAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Secluded myself %by my own hand froze. %I hung it
Last Line: Over my skin %the echoes of famine %persist
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


I LOVE IN WHITE INK, by SIHAM DA'OUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love in white ink %at evening, who knows what day or time
Last Line: And I love my storm birthing %and the pomegranate bursting
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


I PRESENT MYSELF TO THE WORLD, by AMINA SAID    Poem Source                    
First Line: To my jumbled shadows %a cry alone can greet this earth
Last Line: Two turtledoves of sand %suddenly take flight
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


I REMEMBER WHEN JESUS WEPT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Fat legs %frozen %in the air
Subject(s): Arabs; Christmas; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


I UNDRESSED MYSELF, by THERESE AWWAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of my crust %and wore you %a nightgown of love
Last Line: Split a crevice %to the light %a road into your flesh
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


IF ONLY, by LINA TIBI    Poem Source                    
First Line: If only god were a violet
Last Line: If only god were a rose that withers every evening %so that we change it
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


IMMERSION, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sound is not human
Last Line: Light from the wooden grille at the window %arranges its petals on the stone
Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Drowning; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


IN SEASON, by LISA SUHAIR MAJAJ    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father knew the weight of words %in balance, stones in a weathered wall
Last Line: Hang heavy as memory, %orange flash from dusty leaves, %their season still ripening
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


IN THE BEGINNING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When he wakes, he turns
Last Line: Who she is, or %what he lost
Subject(s): Arabs; Gardens And Gardening; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Nature; Palestine; Relationships


IN THE CASBAH, by SALMA KHADRA JAYYUSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I thought that war was %here we died, mai and I, %flattened by armored wheels
Last Line: When our nation became %war's killing ground?
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


IN THE FORESTS OF SLEEP, by HABIBA MUHAMMADI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lion of waking roars %and takes revenge %on a part of my dreams
Last Line: With tenderness %I am ravished by words
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


IN THE LEBANESE MOUNTAINS, by NADIA TUENI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Remember-the noise of moonlight %when the summer night collides with a peak
Last Line: In those dead birds in the bottom of their cages, %in the mountains of lebanon
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


IN THE STEALTH OF STILLNESS, by THURAYYA AL- URAYYID    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do we see in what we see %anything but what we wish to be? %maybe
Last Line: Victims, %my soul whispers %in the stealth of stillness
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


INTERLACED LINES FOR THE SAME MOMENT, by GHADA SHAFA'I    Poem Source                    
First Line: Has it ever happened- %you forgetting: your hands hung on smoky trees
Last Line: Rolling it like a ball in the bottomless pit %of oblivion?
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


INTIMATIONS OF ANXIETY, by LAILA SA'IH    Poem Source                    
First Line: You do not know how hard it is, %transfiguring blood into ink
Last Line: A single syllable to this existence- %this arduous impossible task
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


ISLANDS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea is calm as a good wife
Last Line: Astonished lovers whispering, %what happens next?
Subject(s): Arabs; Islands; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Marriage; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sea


IT WAS A SEASON TATTOOED ON THE FOREHEAD OF THE EARTH, by VENUS KHOURY-GHATA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flight of migrating birds froze in full sky
Last Line: Only the houses kept going
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


JERUSALEM SONG, by LISA SUHAIR MAJAJ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your walls fold gently, %a wingspan %embracing the dreaming city
Last Line: Jerusalem, we are fledglings %crying for a nest!
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


JOB'S WIFE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She has to pity him after what happened
Last Line: At the unrelenting sky
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Marriage; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


JOURNEY OF THE SHADOW, by NADA EL- HAGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the light of the night %in the midst of life
Last Line: With them, I will cross the secret
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


JUMP, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sundays. Sun-narrowed eyes. My father
Last Line: What I want most is on the other
Subject(s): Arabs; Boats; Fathers; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


KARSHISH, THE ARAB PHYSICIAN, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs
Last Line: The madman saith he said so: it is strange.
Variant Title(s): An Epistle; Containing The Strange Medical Evidence Of Karshish ...;an Epistle Containing The Strange Medical Experiments Of Karshish ...;an Epistle Concerning The Strange Medical Experience Of Karshish ...
Subject(s): Arabs; Bible; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Physicians; Religion; Doctors; Theology


KHOBAYZA, by ZULUYKHA ABU-RISHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our kisses are mountain mallow
Last Line: We long for. %and our longing is
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


LA SOMBRA OF WHO I AM, by MICHELA RAEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who was my grandmother? %what died with her %and is buried in the
Last Line: That once caressed her face, %now ancient, %holds mine to the stars
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


LADDERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the angels were too old
Last Line: We could count on a ram in the thicket %or stop the knife
Subject(s): Angels; Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


LAND OF MIRRORS, by AMIRA EL- ZEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When your water reaches me, %the cup trembles
Last Line: In the grave of my memory, %o land of mirrors!
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


LAND STRETCHING UP TO THE SKY, by NADA EL- HAGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The time of loving and fluttering has not yet come
Last Line: Drink my ethereal being %and just leave
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


LANDSCAPES, by PAULINE KALDAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Caught catepillar %in spot of grass
Last Line: Till we tumble into ourselves turned in
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


LAST BULLET, by NIDAA KHOURY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my chest a cave %a gun and a man of storm %I am safe
Last Line: If I burst and fall slain %I'll gather my body anew %I'll fire my last shot
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


LAST FLING OF SUNDOWN, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: It is always that simple
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets


LAWNS OF DELHI, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the lawns of the mogul gardens
Last Line: As they crouched over themselves
Subject(s): Arabs; Gardens And Gardening; Jerusalem; Jews; Lawns; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Women


LETTER, by DHABYA KHAMEES    Poem Source                    
First Line: What is it that love said when it spoke?
Last Line: And it is the unadulterated secret of the universe
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


LETTERS FROM HOME, by ELMAZ ABINADER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every time you weep, I feel the surface of a river
Last Line: I hope I can learn the languages %you have come to know
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


LISTENING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You told it softly, not looking at my face
Last Line: Listen with my body to the real world %the simple hunger of the child
Subject(s): Arabs; Hunger; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


LITTLE LATE MARRIAGE POEM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was never young with you
Last Line: At least we seem to be going %in the same direction
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Marriage; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets


LITTLE LOVE POEM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Just enough to %keep going
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets


LITTLE TALES, by ZAKIYYA MALALLAH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flap your wings on my bare trees, %teach me %the little tales
Last Line: And she would have napped between my ribs, %like a rebellious cat, my rebellious cat
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


LONELINESS, by DHABYA KHAMEES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun pours over me %inside is a pool of silver embroidered with feelings
Last Line: Alone...Lonely %but not when I'm with you
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


LONG DISTANCE, by LAILA HALABY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I folded myself and sent me to you %in place of the usual crinkled letters
Last Line: But all I see inside your eyes is sad %stories of a king without his kingdom
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


LOOKING BACK, by JOANNA KADI    Poem Source                    
First Line: You drifted lazily from the sky, %touched down
Last Line: The heart is a lonely organ
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


LOVE ME, by AMAL MOUSSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I carry me on my fingertips
Last Line: The earth does not know
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


LOVER OF BLUE WRITING ABOVE THE SEA!, by GHADA AL- SAMMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is not true that the shortest path between two points is the %straight line!
Last Line: On the darkness of the abyss...And the whiteness of the page!
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


LOVER OF RAIN IN AN INKWELL, by GHADA AL- SAMMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I die %these letters will still carry me to you
Last Line: The sun will rise above my tomb in beirut!
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


MAD WOMAN, by SU'AS AL-MUBARAK AL- SABAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am quite mad and you are wholly sane
Last Line: Within your breast my only native land
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


MALE GROWNUPS, by HODA HUSSEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know %that I do not understand what %male grownups mean by
Last Line: Savoring knowledge should appear delightful %in the eyes of others
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


MAN IS DEAD, by CLAIRE GEBEYLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunburnt eyes %carved in figure
Last Line: Sweet to watch %close to singing children
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


MANIFEST DESTINY, by SUHEIR HAMMAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: We four %sitting nursing %plates of rice and beans in a cuban diner
Last Line: We were where we needed to be %we are who we have to be
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


MARBLE, by ZULUYKHA ABU-RISHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Marble on the milk of this night
Last Line: What buries %our aches %alive?
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


MEDITATION BY THE XEROX MACHINE, by DORIS SAFIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Such a gloomy day %rain rain rain %sound of soldiers %in rain this gray
Last Line: Who see, as I copy and copy and copy
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


MEWL, by ZULUYKHA ABU-RISHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we were by ourselves %harassed by capricious cats
Last Line: And after it, there remained nothing
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


MIDDLE EAST, by NADIA HAZBOUN REIMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: No, it is not only the date clusters %in the palm trees
Last Line: While the verse on their holiday letter %reads: %'peace on earth!'
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


MOMENT OF MOURNING, by DONIA EL-AMAL ISMAIL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gaza, creeps %with cold hands and feet %like my life in this hot-city %of sins
Last Line: While an old olive tree insists on the change %and gambles on its fact
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


MORNING, by PAULINE KALDAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: As if words could shed their skin
Last Line: Not even a mouthful of sounds %stopping me long enough
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


MORNING OF EVERY SIN, by MAYSOUN SAQR AL- QASIMI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm not sleeping now %leave me like that
Last Line: It's fair, that we feel satisfied %by kisses
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


MY LONELINESS, by THERESE AWWAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I arrest it %between parentheses %bridle it %together with the tumult
Last Line: I make love %to that hunger %deep within
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


NEW TRANSLATION OF TSVETAYEVA, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: She couldn't get in
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Tsvetayeva, Marina (1892-1941)


NEW YEAR'S MORNING, by ELMAZ ABINADER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You don't have to be awake %to feel the night change
Last Line: We listen while forgetting
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


NO RAIN YET, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Cries %countthedead %countthedead
Subject(s): Arabs; Birds; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


NOTION OF GRACE, by BRENDA J. MOOSSY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A sudden blow: a great bird lifts us
Last Line: Feel the embrace of air in our descent
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


OF WOMAN TORN, by SUHEIR HAMMAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did her skin smell %of zaatar her hair of %exploded almonds
Last Line: I smell your ashes %of zaatar and almonds %under my skin %I carry your bones
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


ON CLEAR NIGHTS I WATCH, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Over the %threshold
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Night; Palestine; Prayer


ON THE DEATH OF NIZAR QABBANI, by MOHJA KAHF    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will never be this beautiful again
Last Line: Spring, the april sea, our language, nothing %will ever be this beautiful again
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


ON THE WALL NEXT TO MY WINDOW, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who %will make art of this
Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Arabs; Bible; Home; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


ONE DAY I KNOW THE PAGE, by AMINA SAID    Poem Source                    
First Line: Will cease to translate silence %into human speech
Last Line: Only a shadow of flesh %can walk this earth
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


ONGOING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shape of talk would sag / but the birds be brighter than ever
Last Line: Caught?
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


ORBITS, by 'AISHA ARNAOUT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shapeless, the waves rise toward their elements, where the foam of
Last Line: Where spaces zoom by %and time repositions itself
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


ORPHAN, by THURAYYA MALHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am an orphan %if I walk, %I trip on stones
Last Line: When will you come back to me?
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


OUR NEIGHBOR IN CHARGE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Rub out %with my bare feet
Subject(s): Arabs; Hebrew Literature; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Neighbors; Palestine


OVERFLOW, by NADA EL- HAGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A word %a tear
Last Line: And the universe was filled
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


PARANOIA, by SALWA AL- NEIMI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was a ripe fig %they almost squashed me
Last Line: What's the name of this city?
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


PATH OF AFFECTION, by LAILA ALLUSH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Along the amazing road drawn from the throat of recent dates
Last Line: And it sang out, believe me, with affection
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


PEOPLE OF FIRE, by NIDAA KHOURY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Burn the generations. %burn the olive leaves %offer incense
Last Line: Wear ash and die as embers
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


PEOPLE OF GRAPES, by NIDAA KHOURY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unripe grapes %hang on the fences of morning
Last Line: In its shade %and my story ends
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


PINES ON OUR STREET, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Split %on the fault line
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Writing And Writers


PISTACHIO ICE CREAM, by ANNEMARIE JACIR    Poem Source                    
First Line: They told me the %arabs named the stars %algol, sirius, aldebaran
Last Line: With the morning sun, %and only ruins remain
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


PLACES I'M NOT ALLOWED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: If only %I peed like them
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; War


PRAYER TO THE NEW YEAR, by FADWA TUQAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In our hands is a fresh yearning for you
Last Line: We will push our steps to a precipice %from which to reap life's victories
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


PROTEST, by AMAL AL- JUBURI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why did you reproach him %and turn him away?
Last Line: And you, %you are nothing but %a pair of flawed boots
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


PURPLE THOUGHT, by HOUDA AL- NA'MANI    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is ghosts that kill you without a drop of blood
Last Line: What might perhaps impress you- %a walking mountain?
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


RACHEL'S CHILDREN ARE PLAYING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And spit the shells %on the floor
Subject(s): Arabs; Children; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


RAIN, by DUNYA MIKHAIL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the rain of god falls down %please, my friend
Last Line: Is it why the heart clamors for icy friends?
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


RED BROCADE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The arabs used to say
Subject(s): Arabs; Hospitality


REFUGEE, by LAILA HALABY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lungs of the wrinkled gray-eyed man %bellow with love
Last Line: A river %to take him home
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


RENEGADE, by ANDREE CHEDID    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw your gaping eyes %where sight had ended
Last Line: I dug you out of your lapsed body %to plant you in the heart of mine
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


REST IN LOVE, SELS, by DIANA HELEN MELHEM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Say french: %who knows what lebanese is?
Last Line: But the poet composed %for others
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


RETICENCE, by MAY MUZAFFAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yesterday %when I found %the curtains of the neighbor's floor
Last Line: Which belonged to a bird- %pellets which dried and melted
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


RIPPLE OF VOICES AROUND THE BED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And stares %at the doctor
Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Hospitals; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Nurses; Palestine; Sickness


ROC, by MOHJA KAHF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here's my mom and dad leaving
Last Line: And ages away. Spiny talon %digs into rock
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


ROOM OF ONE'S OWN, by HODA HUSSEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day %I will have a room of my own, %fix on its walls
Last Line: And remember the grief we had %when we were homeless
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SAILOR, by SAFAA FATHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because the question was, 'where am I?'
Last Line: Buffeted by the wind, %giving up diving into the deep
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SALMA IN WONDERLAND, by MONA FAYAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: She eyes herself in the mirror
Last Line: Where her eyes used to be
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SAN DIEGO (ON A RAINY DAY), by LAMIA ABBAS AMARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The light rain makes me long for you
Last Line: Where swords are sharpened for our people?
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SANCTUM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On top of a hill near the lebanese border
Last Line: And trust it to bear our weight %a little longer
Subject(s): Arabs; Cemeteries; Cities; Death; Graves; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins; Sculpture And Sculptors


SAND IN FLAMES, by NOUJOUM AL- GHANIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I put my cameleer off two thousand and one times
Last Line: Bodies float by...The city drowns %in blood
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SCENE FOR THE MORNINGS PRECEDING THE FIRE, by GHADA SHAFA'I    Poem Source                    
First Line: A beam of light in the mouth of azure %sucks the blood of darkness
Last Line: To the shoulder of the plain- %a shawl the fields wear
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SEASONS, by SAFAA FATHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a month I called may. When I buried it in papers, passion
Last Line: And the vagrancy of lone words %on the sidewalks of meaninglessness?
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SECRECY OF MIRRORS, by AL-ZAHRA AL- MANSOURI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I need huge trees to grow within me, %stars to water my calling
Last Line: The sun tumbles from the angles of my body
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SHEET OF FOIL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First day of spring on the hill of anemones, masses of scarlet
Last Line: Not to disturb her fingers at my back, steadying the wings
Subject(s): Arabs; Childhood Memories; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


SHELL-FLOWERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the turkeys you raise each year
Last Line: How far it would carry you
Subject(s): Arabs; Family Life; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Women


SIGH, by NATHALIE HANDAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sea sighs, thieves fly %fleeing the suburbs of gloomy dreams %and sorrow
Last Line: As it sighs and sighs in the mouth of will
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SIGN ON THE NEW BRIDGE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: (one place at least) %to heal
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins; Storms; Wind


SMALL NOUNS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish I could tell you
Last Line: Whatever it %was
Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Graves; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


SMALL SINS, by MARAM MASRI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tell the wind %to calm down %for I do not like the wind
Last Line: I lost my balance %but I did %not fall
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SO DRUNK AM I WITH THE NIGHT, THE AIR, AND THE TREES, by MONA SAUDI    Poem Source                    
First Line: So drunk, I enfold the seas of forgetfulness
Last Line: Coming in the absent present %in the present absence %in a sweeping sea of circles
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SO MANY ZEROS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Too many zeros %ending with smoke
Subject(s): Arabs; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; New Year; Palestine


SO WE GOT OUT OF LEBANON, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: His screech his %portentous scold %iyew iyew
Subject(s): Arabs; Exiles; Jerusalem; Jews; Lebanon; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


SOLITUDE EXERCISES, by IMAN MERSAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: He sleeps in the room next to mine, a wall between us
Last Line: Who never had to steal sympathy from others
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SOMNAMBULIST, by ADELE NE JAME    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the pale light of the half moon, she sees him
Last Line: She trembles, fearing the moment of his waking
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SONG OF A THOUSAND EMPTY HANDS, by ADELE NE JAME    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will build you a house of windows to let
Last Line: You have only to raise your eyes to see %my body, a tree growing skyward
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SONNET: 12. THE SPEEDY FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beware a speedy friend, the arabian said
Last Line: Is swept, still lingering on the boughs the last.
Subject(s): Advice; Arabs; Friendship; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


SONNET: TO THE BEDOUIN ARABS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Children of shem! Firstborn of noah's race
Subject(s): Bedouin Arabs


SPELL OF BLAZING TREES, by SA'ADYYA MUFFARREH    Poem Source                    
First Line: His laugh: %silver %a horse neighing %a fragrance %of warm regret
Last Line: Transforming into a sun %but not intending %to set %for very long
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SPINAL CORD, by 'AISHA ARNAOUT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In your sight %I swallow mercury %I drink ink through my pores
Last Line: The climax of death %the stuttering of birth
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SPINNING, by MAY MUZAFFAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: When from remote lands the wind rose
Last Line: The stars became orbits thrusting into the night... %and night fissioned
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SPRING FLOWERS OWN, SELS, by ETEL ADNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A butterfly came to die %between two stones
Last Line: To cover the secret of %death
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


STANDING WORSHIP, by DHABYA KHAMEES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I said bismillah in your name, singer
Last Line: Innocence cries out to be saved... %innocence finds no one
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


STONE WILL TALK, by HOUDA AL- NA'MANI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even in bronze curtains, I pierce the white ceiling
Last Line: And the moans of the dead %will be heard
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


STRANGERS, by HUDA ABLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: No one belongs to the path %except a pocket %stuffed with the leaves of night
Last Line: And melts in the shudder %of an endless beckoning
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SUICIDE, by LINA TIBI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mouth that gave me your voice
Last Line: The bier killing itself willingly %hungry for the sand of god
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


SUNKEN SHIP, by SALMA KHADRA JAYYUSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: My ship is sinking. %I don't save it. %night frost gathers snow in it
Last Line: You'll see your suppressed terror...%in my heart
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


TABLEAU 66 FROM THE INCLINED HOUSE, by SABAH AL-KHARRAT ZWEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have already lost the style and maze of language. I have already fallen
Last Line: We were embracing the falsehood of space and the fragility of our hours
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


TEMPEST, by SEKEENA SHABEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is little inspiration %tonight; air cool and wet
Last Line: And now this %unbearable stillness
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


TEMPTATION, by SALWA AL- NEIMI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Marital quarrels are not poetic
Last Line: While I wash the dinner dishes
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


THE ARAB, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On, on, my brown arab, away, away!
Last Line: Is a bit of tobacco-pipe -- flee, child, flee!
Subject(s): Arabs


THE ARAB MAID, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the dark and sunless caverns
Last Line: Love has only one.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Arabs


THE ARAB TO HIS FAVORITE STEED, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My beautiful! My beautiful! That standest meekly by
Last Line: Away! Who overtakes us now shall claim thee for his pains!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline
Variant Title(s): The Arab's Farewell To His Horse;the Arab's Farewell To His Steed
Subject(s): Animals; Arabs; Horses


THE ARAB TO THE PALM, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Next to thee, o fair gazelle
Last Line: But none, o palm, should equal mine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Arabs; Palm Trees; Trees


THE BEAUTIFUL BEESHAREEN BOY, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful, black-eyed boy
Last Line: Home to thy orphaned nile.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Arabs; Beauty; Children; Egypt; Childhood


THE BLACK STONE OF THE KA'BA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now out great father, abraham, was fain his son to see
Last Line: But allah's love and tenderness beam through the blackness yet!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Abraham; Arabs; God; Story-telling


THE CALIPH'S DRAUGHT, by EDWIN ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a day in ramadan
Last Line: "by god! Delicious is this draught!"
Subject(s): Arabs; Drinks & Drinking; Wine


THE DESERT-BORN, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the wilds of lebanon, amongst its barren hills
Last Line: Why any who has had like me, the night mare on his chest.
Subject(s): Arabs; Deserts; Food & Eating


THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: ANTARA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many singers before me! Are there yet songs unsung?
Last Line: Slain lies for wild beasts and vultures. Ha! For the sacrifice!
Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Islam; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sacrifices; Male-female Relations


THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: EL HARITH, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lightly took she her leave of me, asma-u
Last Line: Stoodst the day of hayáreyn. Our proof is proven!
Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Fights; Man-woman Relationships; Soldiers; War; Male-female Relations


THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: LEBID, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gone are they the lost camps, light flittings, long so
Last Line: Woe be to all false friends! Woe to the envious!
Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Enemies; Fights; Friendship - False Friends; War; Fair Weather Friends


THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: ZOHEYR, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woe is me for 'ommi 'aufa! Woe for the tents of her
Last Line: Only the mouth that hath no silence endeth in emptiness.
Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Friendship


THE IRON HORSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No song is mine of arab steed
Last Line: The world will pat thee on the neck.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Animals; Arabs; Horses; Railroads; Railways; Trains


THE SCHOLAR OF THEBET BEN KHORAT, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night in arabia. An hour ago
Last Line: It burns his lips to ashes!
Subject(s): Arabs; Astrology & Astrologers; Stars


THE SMALL VASES FROM HEBRON, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tip their mouths open to the sky
Last Line: And the long sorrow of the color red.
Subject(s): Arabs; Arabs - Women; Middle East - Conflicts; Arab-israeli Conflict


THE WHOLE SELF, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I think of the long history of the self
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


THERE, SELS, by ETEL ADNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the green escape of my palace, over a bridge, under a
Last Line: Didn't come to their aid, did we?
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


THEY, by VENUS KHOURY-GHATA    Poem Source                    
First Line: They bubble up to the surface of our memory
Last Line: To fetch the nuts summer didn't want %shaking them like children's rattles
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


THEY ARE ALL WE ARE ALL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Over puget sound %as it always was
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Old Age; Palestine


THEY'VE ROLLED THE PARCHMENT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: As an old sweater %pulled over my head
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Rosh Hashanah


THIRST, by THURAYYA AL- URAYYID    Poem Source                    
First Line: When your longing spans the earth %an ancient root %thirsty for a drop of water
Last Line: A soul yearning for far horizons, %in the grip of shackles %transfixed
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


THIRTEENTH ODE, by SEKEENA SHABEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With the window sliced open %in a circle %on the brightest part of your length
Last Line: The division of your limbs %emptied a place for me
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


THIRTY YEARS SINCE I WANTED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Am I looking in this tunnel %for my dreams
Subject(s): Arabs; Dreams; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


THORNY GAPS SUDDENLY MOVING, by FATMA KANDIL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The keys that open doors %are the keys that close them
Last Line: Every day- %until it became my home
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


TIME FOR DEJECTION, by HAMDA KHAMEES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forever %it dwells in the windows and doors
Last Line: There is no fire in these poems %there is no warmth in this place!
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


TIME TO SHINE, by HAMDA KHAMEES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Go away a bit my sadness %I'll open my notebooks %and draw the heart's gardens
Last Line: My heart %is %armed with the morning
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


TO AN OLD FRIEND, by NADIA HAZBOUN REIMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw you smoldering, %sipping black coffee with
Last Line: And sipped rich coffee with cream- %with cubes of sugar
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


TO ENJOY THE HORROR, by FAWZIYYA ABU-KHALID    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a common wall between the fence of our elementary school
Last Line: To continue the game after the mid afternoon prayers %and to enjoy the horror
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


TRANSLATION: 1. OUTLET, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And what is the next move
Last Line: Looking for the right %word
Variant Title(s): Outle
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Translating And Interpreting


TRANSLATION: 2. WIND, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the blast %that knocked down
Last Line: One lemon %almost ripe
Variant Title(s): Win
Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Ghosts; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Wind


TRANSLATION: 3. FIGURE OUT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You have to be able to
Last Line: You don't invent someone %who already is
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Translating And Interpreting; Voices


TRANSLATION: 4. LIKELY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We never hear them
Last Line: How noiseless the noise of the likely
Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Silence


TRANSLATION: 5. PUT ASIDE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bitterness %the swamp of it
Last Line: Benevolent whispers %angels' wings
Subject(s): Angels; Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


TRANSLATION: 6. NIBBLING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What would you do with an avocado %in your bed
Last Line: Butter melting on a warm roll
Subject(s): Arabs; Food And Eating; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


TRANSLATION: 7. HUMAN VESSEL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Around the cape of no-hope
Last Line: Holding each other %when the wave breaks
Variant Title(s): Human Vesse
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Togetherness


TREE, by ZULUYKHA ABU-RISHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: O little brother %come let's dream together of journeying far
Last Line: Alone %in the swamp
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


TRESPASSES, SELS, by NOUJOUM AL- GHANIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't know how I lost my amulets
Last Line: Like a stranger in a town unappealing to you
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


TRIPOLI, by NADIA TUENI    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the city of three leaves %wide as a smile
Last Line: Here time at times takes the wrong road
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


TROUBLE WITH ANGER, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Because I couldn't %hate %them
Subject(s): Anger; Arabs; Emotions; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


TURN, by ANDREE CHEDID    Poem Source                    
First Line: Build cities %for time and time's seeds
Last Line: Return to those cities %where events await you
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


TWO LITTLE GIRLS, by FAWZIYYA ABU-KHALID    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hang on the hem of her dress like a child hanging
Last Line: Who can solve the riddle: %which is the mother, %which is the daughter?
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


UNFINISHED POEM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We live on a holy mountain
Last Line: Twice a week to increase %our bone density
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets


UNGARETTI'S UMBRELLA, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Claude says, 'this is
Last Line: We still need a shelter %over our heads
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ungaretti, Giuspeppe (1888-1970)


UNSTOPPABLE FURY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And options %still %open
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Traffic


UNTITLED, by MARAM MASRI    Poem Source                    
First Line: You who %often go %to disappear for long %indifferent
Last Line: For I don't want to discover that you love questions %only
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


VEINS ALL DRIED UP, by FATMA KANDIL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like any seagull in old tales I left...Alone...While friends clung to
Last Line: Human pictures fell, and little by little the water's gaze widened %and widened
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


VISITING THE WEST BANK, by S. V. ATALLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once a year up the long road from jericho. Hot summer. Mothballs
Last Line: In each suitcase a sachet of sorrow never unpacked
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


VOICE, by MAY MUZAFFAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing but a resonance %of your distant voice remains for me
Last Line: To cross the space in the twinkling of an eye
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


VOICE, by LINA TIBI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leave me to the night
Last Line: Gently, bringing me closer to itself
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


VOICES, by SUMAIYA EL- SOUSY    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day, I decided to postpone believing the tale until the school bell rings
Last Line: You, the other with no stories- %can we escape?
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


WAIL OF HEIGHTS, by WAFAA' LAMRANI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I ride the heathen sea to my ache crouching in the heights; some of
Last Line: My face has exhausted the treachery of day
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


WAKING IN BED IN THE SHRILL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Before dawn now %shivering
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sacrifices


WEATHERMAN TELLS US, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To know where %they're going
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Snow; Weather


WHAT IS NOT MINE, by HAMDA KHAMEES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whatever exists is now %is not mine
Last Line: The splendor %and this universe %are mine!
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


WHAT THE OLD BEDOUIN TOLD ME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in my long ago
Last Line: In my long ago I have know these abominations against nature, these deadly marvels
Subject(s): Arabs; History


WHAT WANTS TO CONTINUE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sometimes the door remains bolted
Subject(s): Arabs; Grief; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


WHAT WAS NOT CONCEIVABLE, by FATIMA MAHMOUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: In harmony %we entered the climate of water %in harmony with the law
Last Line: Blood is %our secret ink, %blood %our aged fire
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND, by ELMAZ ABINADER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Winter pushes into my room. I waken
Last Line: I leave thumbprint and palm, and the map %to my destiny in their stead
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


WHEN FAT WOMEN FEAR FAMINE, by BRENDA J. MOOSSY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When fat women fear famine %they arrange their canned goods
Last Line: They know the pain of the gnawing heart, %the ache of the hollow bone
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


WHISPER, by MONA FAYAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: A whisper is a sibilant thing %sliding from the throat
Last Line: Is echo's words. %this time, they are heard
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


WHOLE SELF, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I think of the long history of the self
Last Line: And I was there, waving, and I would be there at the other end
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


WOMEN, by ZAKIYYA MALALLAH    Poem Source                    
First Line: She picks me %and reconstitutes my colors
Last Line: Do not give birth today; %sterility is becoming such a giant
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


WORKAHOLIC, by NADIA HAZBOUN REIMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My hands are smooth, the grooves- %just wrinkles from age, thin skin veils
Last Line: Some day by victims of haste, %just like I once used to be
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


WORLD IS A WEDDING, by ADELE NE JAME    Poem Source                    
First Line: After a supper of roasted lamb and eggplant, %fish baked with tahini and lemon
Last Line: 10-foot blowups of movie stars %heroes on the marquee, the crowd passing by
Subject(s): Arabs - Women


YAEL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She must be an angel, waiting outside
Last Line: She knows what she has to do
Subject(s): Angels; Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; War


YELLOW GLOVE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What can a yellow glove mean in a world of motorcars and / governments?
Subject(s): Arabs - Women; Authors & Authorship; Poetry & Poets


YELLOW GLOVE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What can a yellow glove mean in a world of motorcars and %governments?
Last Line: Part of the difference between floating and going down
Subject(s): Arabs - Women; Authors And Authorship; Poetry And Poets


YOU CAN FEEL THE RISING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: At the center of the house
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Thought


YOU HAVE TO BEGIN, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Still felt or is it %(not less) %remembered
Subject(s): Arabs; Brides; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine