Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Beirut, The Mistress Of The World Comments

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Beirut, the Mistress of the World
We confess before the One God
That we were envious of you
That your beauty hurt us
We confess now
That we've maltreated and misunderstood you
And we had no mercy and didn't excuse you
And we offered you a dagger in place of flowers!
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Nizar Qabbani
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Fabrizio Frosini 27 December 2015

an 'ode' to Beirut.. from a Syrian poet.. That's really good

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