Few poems by Mahmoud Darwish💕

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To mark my 300th post, I'm sharing a collection of poems by Mahmoud Darwish. His powerful words offer deep insights into love and separation. Enjoy! I love you despite the nose of my tribe, my city and the chains of customs. But I'm afraid if I sell everyone, you will sell me and I'll return with disappointments. 'I felt like my homeland was occupied again.' Out of my ignorance I called you a homeland, and I forgot that homelands are taken away. Drink your coffee, embrace the silence, do not take people seriously, do not take life upon yourself, do not exaggerate your emotions, and do not please anyone against your will. Don't befriend me for a day, and leave me a month. Don't get close to me if you're going to leave. Don't say what you don't do. Be close or get away. A University degree, four books and hundreds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. You wrote me 'good morning' and I read it as 'I love you'. Poetry an...

WE DO NOT LOOK AT YOUR WORDS BUT AT YOUR SILENCE...

Silence is a state.

 Just like there are all kinds of sounds, words, sentences, there are also all kinds of silence.
A person is not what he says but how he keeps his silence. But the talking state takes over. Whatever the state a person is in, his actions are the same.

Whatever letters line up to unite.
Whatever words line up to become a sentence the essence is the meaning. The meaning makes you understand others.

If words are silver, Silence is gold.

Its a nice phrase, yes
but what does it mean?

Silence is such a thing that can only be compared to gold.

I wonder, does silence expose more secrets?
Does it tell more than words?
 The last stop of words is the tongue. 
Well then, what is the first stop?

Just like all water has a source a spring, a home, there must be a source from which words come out.
That place is silence.
Silence is the source, the home & the spring of words. That is why we don't look at your words... we look at your state.

If you have an empty human mind that believes everything that is told the tongue is enough. Now, just because we are saying this, do not think words are insignificant.
Just the opposite, a person is his words. We talk about the truth that will ultimately arise like the sun. Our aim is not to belittle the power of words.

Words are indeed strong. So powerful, they make you believe in lies. We cannot make them believe in the truth.
-Taptukemre

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