"Here Are Your Tortured Poets. All From Mahmoud Darwish To Dr. Refat Alareer To Khaled Juma, These Are

"In order for me to write poetry that isn't political, I must listen
to the birds and in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent" poem by Marwan Makhoul

Oh rascal children of Gaza.
You who constantly disturbed me
with you screams under my window.
You who filled every morning
with rush and chaos.
You who broke my vase
and stole the lonely flower on my balcony.
Come back,
and scream as you want
and break all the vases.
Steal all the flowers.
Come back.
Just come back."

A poem by Khaled Juma

"I wish children didn't die.
I wish they would be temporarily elevated to the skies until the war ends.

Then they would return home safe and when their parents would ask them: "where were you?", they would say "we were playing in the clouds".

A poem by Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani

"You may fasten my chains
Deprive me of my books and tobacco
You may fill my mouth with earth
Poetry will feed my heart, like blood
It is salt to the bread
And liquid to the eye
I will write it with nails, eye-sockets, daggers
I will recite it in my prison cell -
In the bathroom -
In the stable -
Under the whip -
Under the chains -
In spite of my handcuffs
I have a million nightingales
On the branches of my heart
Singing the song of liberation."

A poem by Mahmoud Darwish: 'Defiance'

"Here are your tortured poets. All from Mahmoud Darwish to Dr. Refat Alareer to Khaled Juma, these are tortured poets. Tortured by longing for a home they can never return to, tortured by the world they were born to for BEING BORN. Palestine, home to the tortured poets department." [@/folkoftheshelf on X. April 20th, 2024.]

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