This document provides a summary of poems by Nizar Qabbani that were published in 2004 by PoemHunter.Com. It includes short summaries of 7 poems: "Every Time I Kiss You", "In The Summer", "Language", "Light Is More Important Than The Lantern", "My Lover Asks Me", "Oh, My Love", and "The Trial". Each poem is a few lines and explores themes of love, passion, and the relationship between a lover and their beloved.
This document provides a summary of poems by Nizar Qabbani that were published in 2004 by PoemHunter.Com. It includes short summaries of 7 poems: "Every Time I Kiss You", "In The Summer", "Language", "Light Is More Important Than The Lantern", "My Lover Asks Me", "Oh, My Love", and "The Trial". Each poem is a few lines and explores themes of love, passion, and the relationship between a lover and their beloved.
This document provides a summary of poems by Nizar Qabbani that were published in 2004 by PoemHunter.Com. It includes short summaries of 7 poems: "Every Time I Kiss You", "In The Summer", "Language", "Light Is More Important Than The Lantern", "My Lover Asks Me", "Oh, My Love", and "The Trial". Each poem is a few lines and explores themes of love, passion, and the relationship between a lover and their beloved.
This document provides a summary of poems by Nizar Qabbani that were published in 2004 by PoemHunter.Com. It includes short summaries of 7 poems: "Every Time I Kiss You", "In The Summer", "Language", "Light Is More Important Than The Lantern", "My Lover Asks Me", "Oh, My Love", and "The Trial". Each poem is a few lines and explores themes of love, passion, and the relationship between a lover and their beloved.
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Classic Poetry Series
Nizar Qabbani - poems -
Publication Date: 2004
Publisher: PoemHunter.Com - The World's Poetry Archive Every Time I Kiss You
Every time I kiss you
After a long separation I feel I am putting a hurried love letter In a red mailbox.
Translated by B. Frangieh And C. Brown
Submitted by Noele Aabye
Nizar Qabbani
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In The Summer
In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.
Translated by B. Frangieh And C. Brown
Submitted by Noele Aabye
Nizar Qabbani
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Language
When a man is in love
how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists?
I said nothing to the woman I loved but gathered love's adjectives into a suitcase and fled from all languages.
Nizar Qabbani
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Light Is More Important Than The Lantern
Light is more important than the lantern,
The poem more important than the notebook, And the kiss more important than the lips. My letters to you Are greater and more important than both of us. The are the only documents Where people will discover Your beauty And my madness.
Translated by B. Frangieh And C. Brown
Submitted by Noele Aabye
Nizar Qabbani
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My Lover Asks Me
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.
Translated by B. Frangieh And C. Brown
Submitted by Noele Aabye
Nizar Qabbani
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Oh, My Love
Oh, my love If you were at the level of my madness, You would cast away your jewelry, Sell all your bracelets, And sleep in my eyes.
Translated by B. Frangieh And C. Brown
Submitted by Noele Aabye
Nizar Qabbani
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The Trial
The East receives my songs, some praise, some curse
To each of them my gratitude I bear For I've avenged the blood of each slain woman and haven offered her who is in fear.
Woman's rebellious heart I have supported
ready to pay the prize - content to die if love should slay me, for I am love's champion and if I ceased, then I would not be I.
