<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=470984" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Damascene Moon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Green Tunisia, I have come to you as a lover<br>On my brow, a rose and a book<br>For I am the Damascene whose profession is passion<br>Whose singing turns the herbs green<br>A Damascene moon travels through my blood<br>Nightingales . . . and grain . . . and domes<br>From Damascus, jasmine begins its whiteness<br>And fragrances perfume themselves with her scent<br>From Damascus, water begins . . . for wherever<br>You lean your head, a stream flows<br>And poetry is a sparrow spreading its wings<br>Over Sham . . . and a poet is a voyager<br>From Damascus, love begins . . . for our ancestors<br>Worshipped beauty, they dissolved it, and they melted away<br>From Damascus, horses begin their journey<br>And the stirrups are tightened for the great conquest<br>From Damascus, eternity begins . . . and with her<br>Languages remain and genealogies are preserved<br>And Damascus gives Arabism its form<br>And on its land, epochs materialize</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Nizar+Qabbani">Nizar Qabbani</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=470984" data-title="A Damascene Moon de Nizar Qabbani" data-description="Green Tunisia, I have come to you as a lover On my brow, a rose and a book For I am the Damascene whose profession is passion Whose singing turns the herbs green A Damascene moon travels through my blood Nightingales . . . and grain . . . and dome..."></div> </div> </div>

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