When I Love You Poem by Nizar Qabbani

When I Love You

Rating: 2.4


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 fly from your eyes with tiding of honey,
Caravans ride from your breasts carrying Indian herbs,
The mangoes fall all around, the forests catch fire
And Nubian drums beat.

When I love you your breasts shake off 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.
And I shall continue to love you until the world flood arrives;
I shall continue to love you untill the world flood arrives.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Lady Grace 22 March 2010

very nice..very nice...i like this piece..can i make some words? .. when i love you i'll ask the sky to fall into the sea to see how heaven wraps the ocean to hear their sweetest voice... when i love you the thorns will never grow into the face of happiness into the lips of laughters... when i love you distance will move closer waves sleep at the shore waiting for you to come.......i like ur piece...hope its just ok, if i visit ur page...naizz

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Nizar Qabbani

Nizar Qabbani

Damascus / Syria
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