Comments on: “Be Like Balsam” by Elia Abu Madi (English Translation of ÙƒÙ† Ø¨Ù„Ø³Ù…Ø§)

By: Ben Peters

Ben Peters — Fri, 21 May 2021 06:09:09 +0000

In reply to Nasra Al Adawi. Ø´ÙƒØ±Ø§ Ø¹Ù„Ù‰ ØªØ¹Ù„ÙŠÙ‚Ùƒ. Ù…Ø§ Ø¨Ø¹Ø±ÙÙ‡ ØµØ±Ø§ØØ© Ø§Ù† Ø´Ø§Ø¡ Ø§Ù„Ù„Ù‡ ØªÙ„Ø§Ù‚ÙŠÙ‡Ø§. Ø´Ø§Ø¹Ø± Ø±Ø§Ø¦Ø¹!

Nasra Al Adawi — Fri, 21 May 2021 06:04:44 +0000

Thank you for sharing for this, I was searching for a poem called Night/Evening if available in evening for Elia Abu Madi

Ben Peters — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 23:47:40 +0000

In reply to frankiefalah. That is great

frankiefalah — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 22:52:37 +0000

When fate conspires to smother you, be like balsam

And if others are bitter, be sweet

Indeed, life has loved you with all her treasures

So who are you to be stingy in return?

Though the world is blind, multiply beauty

Does the fragrant flower wait for a bribe?

Does a nightingale weigh the cost of each note?

Does the pouring rain expect a reward?

Gather the generous and count their ways,
yet who among them can measure up to life?

Take from them the knowledge of love,
for that knowledge alone is precious

Were it not for feelings, people would be like dolls

Love, and by dawn the whole cosmos will fill your dwelling

Hate, and by evening the whole universe will become a dark prison

If only the desert could love, each grain of sand would blossom and every mirage would be a pool of water

A cup without wine is nothing but glass, and man without love is nothing but skin and bones