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The Treasure
How can I be sure
that language is the treasure
in the hinterland of the soul?
I doubt that balconies –
which dangle from buildings
like the earrings of women –
are the entire city!
Rather the body is the original place
where Time was born.
Sometimes I feel the Earth
is a morsel in the mouth
of the universe –
this predatory being
expanding endlessly,
like paradise is
a search for pure nihilism,
yet that discovery
brings no new knowledge,
.just hell growing out of questions
© Bilal Al Masri
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| Bilal Al Masri |
Bilal Al Masri is active in the Lebanese literary community and known throughout the Arab world. He has published four poetry collections. He has written three novels and two plays as well as children’s stories, which were translated into English in Canada. Selected poems have appeared in six anthologies, including English and Polish, and some of his poems have been translated into French. He has received four different awards, including the “Zheng Nian Cup” national prize in China in 2023. His most recent poetry collection is Crushing His Head with the Stone of Memory, part of Ishraqat – a series on Arab Poetic Voices curated by the iconic Syrian poet Adonis. Bilal and his wife, Sonia Essa (of Palestinian heritage), have two children.
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