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    Letter Written by a Man in His Forties
    Letter Written by a Man in His Forties
    Letter Written by a Man in His Forties
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    Letter Written by a Man in His Forties

    By RIYAD AL KADI

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    'Letter Written by a Man in His Forties' is the translated version of a set of Arabic poems written by Riyad Al Kadi, a novelist and a poet-writer. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBadPress
    Release dateOct 28, 2018
    ISBN9781547512560
    Letter Written by a Man in His Forties

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      Letter Written by a Man in His Forties - RIYAD AL KADI

      Woman Never Coming Back

      ***

      I dreamt about a woman shocking the letters;

      Assassinating the women in the eye of lovers.

      She is called 'the Poem of All Homes';

      Greater than the words, vaster than the stars.

      She sets the sides of the pages to flames,

      And is the master of free verse, letters and rhymes.

      My lover is created from the sea foam,

      With eyes more precious than a thousand pearls' home.

      When she approaches, I smell the jasmine,

      And her lips hotness seizes me when touching mine.

      I lament the poets of pre-Islamic era and our crazy phase,

      For losing the honor of making her the object of praise.

      My love burned the fields

      With her walk.

      Jealous of her are the brown,

      the blond, and those like red wine.

      She brings about the light

      That makes everything bright.

      ...................

      Her breasts look like two domes,

      Twinkling in the sunset.

      O ambassador of love, do not run away,

      As fish fleeing to the rivers.

      Do not disappear from my land,

      As the sun disappears from the sky.

      I wrote all my amazing poems about you,

      Being

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