If you dissect my body, grapes and apples will come out of it. I made the English translation for the poem and I hope you will love it. You can find the first part of the poem here. He was the poet of Damascus: "I am the Damascene. There is also the youtube video reciting the whole poem in Arabic so that you can listen to the poem as long as reading it in both Arabic and English. He was an Arab nationalist, yet he criticized Arab dictators and the lack of freedom in the Arab world. He was a ceaseless campaigner for women’s rights, and his verses praise the beauty of the female body, and of love. Kabbani was a poet of great simplicity-direct, spontaneous, musical, using the language of everyday life.
Arabian Love Poems is the first English-language collection of his work. In his poetry the harmony of the heart, and in his blood the melody of love". Reflecting on his death in 1998, Sulhi Al-Wadi wrote (in Tishreen), "Qabbani is like water, bread, and the sun in every Arab heart and house. After the death of his wife Qabbani moved between Geneva and Paris but eventually settled in London where he spent last 15 years of his life.Nizar Kabbani’s poetry has been described as "more powerful than all the Arab regimes put together" ( Lebanese Daily Star). It gives glimpses of the alchemical power of poetry, capable of reviving the language, and of the almost mystical transparence of love as expressed. He wrote a famous poem in which he blamed the entire Arab world for his wife’s death. Arabian Love Poems succeeds in rendering into English the beautiful po etical verse of Qabbani, which freed the Arabic language from its bonds by put ting it back into the stream of everyday life. The death of Belqis imprinted unforgettable memories in his mind. Unfortunately Balqis died in 1981 Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War on 15th December, 1981. Qabbani married twice and his second marriage was with an Iraqi schoolteacher Balqis al-Rawi with whom he met at a poetry recital in Baghdad. A review in Egyptian magazine completely rejected his initiatives as a poet. poems continue the sixteen-centuries-old tradition of Arabic love poetry. His first collection of poetry ‘Samra told me’ was published in September 1944 and only 300 copies were published. It was revived in the hands of modern poets such as Nizar Qabbani (1923 1998).
Spanish is language of contradictions and it is a language of love and revolution at the same time. He was a campaigner for women's rights, and his verses praise the beauty of the female body, and of love. It portrays Kabbani's style - direct, spontaneous, musical, using the language of everyday life. When I love the water gushes from my fingers grass grows on my tongue when I love I become time outside all time. When I love I become liquid light invisible to the eye and the poems in my notebooks become fields of mimosa and poppy. This translation of Nizar Kabbani's poetry is accompanied by the Arabic texts of the poems. When I love I feel that I am the king of time I possess the earth and everything on it and ride into the sun upon my horse.
“In my first experience I was attached to Spanish language and then came a time when I actually fell in love with this language. Arabian Love Poems Nizar Qabbani Arabian Love Poems. He leant the Spanish during 1963 to 1966 in Madrid. As a diplomat he was also a fond of leaning Spanish.
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