A Hearts Groan

I roused my heart after it had been bound,And watched for solace's elusive sound;

How many nights I spent in bitter grief,Hoping for kindness from a brother's relief;

I wove my poems from the stars on high,And reeled from loneliness my echoes' cry;

Would that I could ignore what has becomeSo widespread in the atmosphere of home;

Alas for sorrow's fire—for it will growUntil it burned my inmost parts below;

Poetry's eyes wept blood for my estate,Till they had watered dear friend's heart sedate;

Heart's anguish grows with solitude's embrace,My life became the image of disgrace;

Were it not for restraint and wisdom's guide,I'd be a ghost whom cruel fortunes hide;

Ah, would my sigh could quench the burning brandWhose flame consumes the embers of my hand.

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Poetic Heartbeats

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Publication date 1981

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Poems of the Book

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My Mother O My Mother Greetings, O My Mother Her Birthday My Mother, Arise Breath Returned Echo of Her Anguish Mothers Day Remembrance To My Mothers Soul When the Crescent Rose The Infant When He Spoke Carefree Childhood I Fear for You A Mothers Counsel A Mothers Forbearance After His Return Do You Hear Me, My Son? If Only You Knew Our Birthday Words of Reproach Between Doubt and Certainty The Captivating Prose Poem My Absent Brother Reproach to the Absent World of Delusions Who Am I? Between Despair and Hope A Colloquy From Beyond the Phantoms Adam Love A Nights Dream O Seller of Patience Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi A Poetic Crime From Beyond the Telephone The Captive Maiden Whispers of the Soul Believe Me Companion of Youth After Youth O My Heart My Physician Private Supplication Sorrow The Cup Divination An Artists Wish To the Maiden Virgin My Solitude Breaths of Solitude The Convalescent Echo of Solitude My Testament With the Dawn O Night The Moon Springtide Inspiration of the Sea Circumambulation Reflection of a Phantom The Countryside Aswan, Bride of Upper Egypt The Parched Soul The Free Bird Purest Love The Canary Bird The Divorcee Birds of Autumn The Canary The Singer I and the Sea The Most Loyal of the Loyal From Mansoura, Bride of the Nile, to the Dam To Where? Confession The Shepherdess Salute to the Peace Conference To President Sadat Inspired by Unity To the Fighter The Martyr Inspired by the Battle To King Faisal To Jaafar Nimeiri Echo of the Foreign Tour Echo of the Tripartite Aggression O Cupbearer of the Soul Pioneer of the Free Voice of Egypt Egypt