Thread by @rosewatwr, Arabic love poems are on another level remembered a line written by [...]

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Arabic love poems are on another level remembered a line written by farouq jwaydeh “and if the devil was to ever see you, he’d kiss your eyes and repent” like come on

“My lips and fingers were pens on her flesh. / I memorized her in every alphabet and memorized my memories until they multiplied...”
-Adonis

“When I love, / I become liquid light”
-Nizar Qabbani

“I would split open my heart with a knife, place you within and seal my wound, that you might dwell there and never inhabit another …”
-Ibn Hazm

They asked “do you love her to death?” I said “speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life.”
-Mahmoud Darwish

“I long for you hands,
two doves that shade the blaze of my longing.”
-Maisoon Saqr

“Awake with me all night she whispers, “You are my angel. Beneath your skin an angel hides. Let’s plunge into the deep again, my love, and leave to others the height and breadth of all the kingdoms of the air.”
-Adonis

“Through her, in a rush of musk
and saffron, beauty falls
into disarray.”
-Ibn Al-Arabi

“My temptations in your eyes, And the cities of your grief…”
-Ibrahim el-Kahwaji

“We knew sex in the sweetest moments and in the harshest moments too. We pressed our bodies together. We peeled them apart. We exchanged our skins. We talked a little then fell silent.”
-Nizar Qabbani

“Abeba, my flower from Asmara...
Measured and subtle,
Her finely drawn eyes-
She spoke like poetry.”
-Ribka Sibhatu

“I look at you and I dream of snow, I look at you and I await autumn.”
-Adonis

“Your lip the first disaster.”
-Emad Fouad

“From the base of her neck
to the arch of her eyelids
her beauty made a slave of me.”
-Adonis

“Your eyes are like palm-groves refreshed by dawn’s breath
Or terraces the moon leaves behind.”
-Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab

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