Confusion

My soul took flight where sullen vapors cling,

To beg the stars for truth they would not bring.

I sang, a bird adrift in skyless gray,

Pursuing hope that fled the break of day.

I sang as one who tastes the bloom then thorn,

Who wakes to find the grace of beauty shorn.

I drank from light—a draught that burned my chest,

And made the mountain reel upon its crest.

Poetry

Echo of My Dreams

Publisher Taawun Press

Page count 163

Publication date 1936

A full list of all the poems from this book

Love of the Impossible A Salute to Farouk To My Mother The Prisoner Beautiful Dream Echoes of my Breath Moon Greeting Life Cries The Wretched Beauty Reproach To the Forgetful Spring Hope Grant Me An Artist Wish The Roaming Bird A Passing Reflection The Thirsty Soul The Enchanter On the Shores of Aswan The Wandering One O Nightingale The Lamenting Bird Where To? Despair and Hope Reflections of Solitude I Adore You Birds of Spring O Heart To the Artist Between Me and God Do You Remember? Echo of My Dreams I Wish From Beyond the Graves I Complain to My God