Purest Love

Would that mine eyes had never seenThis dove that crossed my garden green;

My heart had always dwelt confinedIn fortress of the disciplined mind;

Then suddenly it went astrayFor love that gleamed without delay;

Its melody delights my breastAt morning light or cloud's behest;

I see it like myself below,Praying for people's peace to grow;

Love seems like radiance from above,That shines through darkness with its love;

O bird, how hast thou captured me —Alas, alas, O dove, for thee;

I fear indeed the words they'll say:Jamila's lost in love away;

Love is no crime, nor can there beAught sinful in pure chastity.

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Poetic Heartbeats

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Publication date 1981

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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 A Hearts Groan 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 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