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Best Poems From
TALAL KASSAD
(01/01/1985)
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Ode to Nature
That day I wondered how the sun
Could neither set at noon
Nor leave his tiring work undone
To lie beside the moon.
But much to my dismay,
My words, I fancied, made him weary,
But never let him turn his ray
To cast a shadow on the query
I standing still, a dreamless moment passed
Without any answer ever heard
But one that left me all aghast-
The tacit answer I inferred.
TALAL KASSAD
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The King and the Flea
THE CHORUS
A small but cunning flea once vowed
To make the kingdom shout aloud-
To kill the king and then his spouse,
Who pride themselves and oft carouse.
When setting out to launch the strife
She tried to kill him ere his wife.
By less a needle than a dart
She left him almost sick at heart.
Repeating fighting day and night,
She made him muster troops to fight.
When falling short of fighting her
He left the flea to win the spur.
Again the flea began to sting
To leave the kingdom with no king.
As though the king began to dance,
But love and humor had no chance
He started jumping up with pain.
Remorseful tears then fell like rain.
When all the army strove in vain
The insect drove the king insane.
THE KING
I awe allegiance to thine grace,
But let me cure my crimson face.
If what you need is but the throne,
Then come but let me stay alone!
THE CHORUS
She tried his patience once again
So that he fell and struck his brain.
THE KING
I wished the damsels came like thee.
But that was all to fight a flea.
THE CHORUS
No longer can he catch his breath
Because his fate was that of death.
THE CHORUS
The flea then wept and sadly said:
The prideful hero broke his head
TALAL KASSAD
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Love at no Sight
Hardly a day goes by
Without a dream or thought.
I lived where she can never tell-
I lived inside her heart.
Therein I found so many veins,
Each could feed an eye.
I touched a vein and let a tear fall
With a view to irrigating her sylvan eyes.
But once her eyes grew so misty,
A dropp of tear rolled down warmly...
And then her chest embraced her tears,
For they were once so near-
They were once inside her heart.
But we, by love, were never sinners
Because our love was purified.
She only loved my eyes which never beheld her own,
And so I came to love her own,
By means of which I saw her heart.
TALAL KASSAD
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Ode to Chastity
One day I pledged myself to come alive,
And on the nectar of her rose survive.
She has no eyes, nor has she hair,
But shes a beauty beyond compare.
As though she were the eye we find
With shining lids to hurt the blind.
My soul, united with her own, is high
And never found but shining in the sky,
Therefrom I look, my love, at you
Wherein the stars are only few.
If said: youre fair, its true but why
Is it that you, with all this, die?
When eyeing her, I feel in love
And gain more light to shine above.
Whenever felt, this love does shine
To render all bad thoughts benign.
What love I feel, though felt of old,
Becomes all people- young and old.
And many though her partners be, in truth,
So chaste are they that none is found uncouth.
TALAL KASSAD
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