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Prose poetry.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Beirut,
c
Lebanon,c
Middle East,
Asia,:Dar al-Masar lil-Nashr wa-l-abhath wa-l-tawthiq
, 2001 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.- Dustiesi"Deserted are the roadways, and we're blowing about alone. The earth has come to dust; and here we are,", single work poetry
- The Beauty of the One Passing Oni"The ones passing on quickly are beautiful. They don't leave behind the weight of a shadow. Perhaps a little", single work poetry
- Exile of Languagei"If language is truly our home, we are living in exile.", single work poetry
- Shade That We Bei"They're shadows, they're shadows. Don't despair. Strike the tree and shadows fall. Cut the branches, you'll", single work poetry
- Desirei"The one who has dropped desires has reached the goal. For there's no desire to go further, nor to arrive.", single work poetry
- Knowingi"Are we to feel assured when we know, or are we more anxious?", single work poetry
- Splittingi"It tramples on everything in its path, the caravan does. It squashes it silently, blindly.", single work poetry
- Deviancei"Deviants invented our values, they entrusted us with a beautiful secret civilization, in exchange for a", single work poetry
- Exilei"Man is a reasoning being? Insufficient adjective. No longer precise.", single work poetry
- Paini"If it is possible to define history, one can say that it's the history of pain.", single work poetry
- Forgettingi"Memory or life? Suffering or forgetting?", single work poetry
- The Happiness of Forgettingi"Forgetting has a buoyancy of flight in the heart of happiness, which memory, sinking under its weighty", single work poetry
- Memory's Tragedyi"Perhaps it brings no joy to recall and remind that envy, revenge, murder... are daughters of memory.", single work poetry
- Suffering the Memory of Happinessi"Don't recall a deer that has disappeared in the thickets - that will only make you miss other deer which pass", single work poetry
- Memory of Desirei"Whoever desires, becomes victim of his desire. He who seeks to conjure a desire which has gone away", single work poetry
- Memory of Placei"So are you here, while you remember there?", single work poetry
- Memory of Historyi"We are not our essential self. We are the history stuffed into us.", single work poetry
- Memory of Fathers and Sonsi"Since their birth we begin to exile them from their essential selves. We hammer into them the nails of our", single work poetry
- Memory of Arrivali"The origin of sufferings is the idea of arrival, since there is no arrival, there is no point, no place to sit on the", single work poetry
- Silencei"Why did Nietzsche pass his last years silently secluded? Did he want to say that silence is the highest stage of", single work poetry
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