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رسالة 39

Letter 39

الغزل · Love & Romanceالحنين · Nostalgia & Longing

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الخلاصة · Summary

Nizar Qabbani, the famous contemporary Syrian diplomat and poet known for revolutionizing Arabic love poetry, addresses his absent male beloved in this intimate and devastating lyric. Stripped of the ornate rhetoric of traditional poetry, the poem contrasts the lush abundance of being together in the rain with the sterile, solitary grief that follows his departure, capturing the precise physical and emotional desolation of abandonment.

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مئة رسالة حب

One hundred love letters

كان المطر ينزل علينا معاً

The rain was falling upon us together

فتنمو ألوف الحشائش

And thousands of weeds would grow

على معطفينا

Upon our coats

بعد رحيلك

After your departure

صار المطر يسقط علي وحدي

The rain began to fall on me alone

فلا ينبت شيء

And nothing grows

على معطفي

Upon my coat

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