A collection of poetry by poet Adel Mahmoud from the atmosphere of war in Syria.
“To the Syrian heart
who makes love,
After all this hatred, it's possible."
Years have passed since his absence, and Mamdouh Adwan had more. But death was no longer with him.
What has not been published before. We collect it today in this book.
Mamdouh Adwan left a file on his computer containing completed poems that he had prepared for publication, and other poems that he called incomplete poems.
Mamdouh did not give a title to the file. But he left it under the name (A Poet's Job).
(A Leap in the Air) is the title of a book that Mamdouh Adwan had prepared for publication.
But death forced him to complete this collection. Therefore, we at Dar Mamdouh Adwan decided to collect the poems that he wanted to publish and add to them some of the missing poems. Let us present to the reader some of his completed poems that have not been published, and other poems that he did not complete, but are open to the possibility of completion.
The convoy continues:
In this poetic version, you will enter my crazy world with my consent... You now have a permit that gives you the right to delve into the secrets of my soul... some secrets and feelings... and a “washah” through which you will learn “the meaning of passion”.. and you will master the “language of the eyes” to read “The Look of a Magician”. And you step into the “first dance” with all your might.
In this version you will see a woman whose heart takes her wherever she wants.. She once lived in a state of “steadfastness”... And she walked again “beside the wall”.
Despite all the pain, you will see “my mother’s face” that speaks of love.. You will see roses among thorns.. and love in times of war.. and hope despite the pain..
What I chose was based on a combination of personal taste and conviction - which sought to be objective as much as possible - that these examples are worthy of introducing the wide reader to Adwan’s poetic personality. What also requires clarification is that the selection of poems over others was subject to a specific technical factor: that is, the replacement of long poems in favor of medium or short ones, in order to make room for the largest possible number of texts expressing the experience, and in a way that is proportionate to the proposed size of the selections.
Hopefully, these selections will succeed in recalling a lofty poetic stature, represented by “the free son of life,” “the one who exalts himself upon condescension,” bending “with the discipline of a soldier before a spike,” looking “sad and angry, at the perforated shoes of the poor,” biased “to her path filled with the dust of honor.” "; As Mahmoud Darwish expressed in his eulogy for Adwan.
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