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Poem title : When I Love You
Poet name:Nizar Qabbani
Category: Modern Arabic Poetry
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When I love you
A new language springs up,
New cities, new countries discovered.
The hours breathe like puppies,
Wheat grows between the pages of books,
Birds y from your eyes with tiding of honey,
Caravans ride from your breasts carrying Indian
herbs,
The mangoes fall all around, the forests catch re
And Nubian drums beat.
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When I love you your breasts shake o! their shame,
Turn into lightning and thunder, a sword, a sandy
storm.
When I love you the Arab cities leap up and
demonstrate
Against the ages of repression
And the ages
Of revenge against the laws of the tribe.
And I, when I love you,
March against ugliness,
Against the kings of salt,
Against the institutionalization of the desert.
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And I shall continue to love you until the world ood
arrives;
I shall continue to love you untill the world ood
arrives.
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