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رسالة 39
Letter 39
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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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One hundred love letters
The rain was falling upon us together
And thousands of weeds would grow
Upon our coats
After your departure
The rain began to fall on me alone
And nothing grows
Upon my coat
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