sidra reviewed Almond blossoms and beyond by Mahmoud Darwish
Review of 'Almond blossoms and beyond' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
If the world does not break into song now,
on this morning,
it will never sing.
If a writer were to compose a successful piece
describing an almond blossom, the fog would rise
from the hills, and people, all the people, would say:
This is it.
These are the words of our national anthem.
The dream must guide the dreamers
like inspiration-and with a sigh-
Take my hand, impossible thing!
And he disappeared, as legends do.
He did not win to die, nor lose to live.
I knew the end of the journey from the first step,
he says to himself.
I have not withdrawn from the world,
nor have I gotten closer to the world.
There is no reason why poetry
should not falter in telling its story and beware of
an amazing flaw in the image.
But lust for life, even with no satisfying proofs,
is stronger than …
If the world does not break into song now,
on this morning,
it will never sing.
If a writer were to compose a successful piece
describing an almond blossom, the fog would rise
from the hills, and people, all the people, would say:
This is it.
These are the words of our national anthem.
The dream must guide the dreamers
like inspiration-and with a sigh-
Take my hand, impossible thing!
And he disappeared, as legends do.
He did not win to die, nor lose to live.
I knew the end of the journey from the first step,
he says to himself.
I have not withdrawn from the world,
nor have I gotten closer to the world.
There is no reason why poetry
should not falter in telling its story and beware of
an amazing flaw in the image.
But lust for life, even with no satisfying proofs,
is stronger than Life and Death.
Favourites: With the Fog So Dense on the Bridge, Happy (I Know Not Why), I Used to Love Winter, I Love Autumn and the Shade of Meanings, To Describe an Almond Blossom, I Sit at Home, He Waited for No One, Now, in Exile.
