Tag: arabic

• “This Ring”

  

  (my own photo of the moon in a blushing morning sky in Massachusetts) This was my first poem I’d written and published online in 2022: The first of form poems I tried to write this year is a ghazal, and it’s fit well with that form having originated in the Middle East during the medieval […]

  11/29/2022 5:32 pm

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• :’*

  

  Oct. 27, 2022 I am very sad today, I spotted this flower, a little green arch above it. If I would’ve been there longer, it would have been watered by my tears… * Dear Mayy, I know of a place you may like, you may already know, I haven’t been there in awhile; let’s go […]

  10/29/2022 6:05 pm

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• “Dhakeeyun”

  OCTOBER 23, 2022 As a quick, clear comprehension of something deep that’s been spoken. The title “Keys” I’d first wrote was similar, and even in the singular, the “key” still sounds to me like something is locked up and irretrievable, which is the opposite of what I’d meant to express. In this poem, it’s “no […]

  10/23/2022 7:09 pm

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• May Ziadeh’s ‘Green Hut’ in the Wood, Her Preface to a Favorite Book I Came Across

  * These words just held me…I didn’t realize the book, translated as Smiles and Tears by May Ziadeh that I was reading in PDF form today was the book titled Memories or German Love, by F. Max Muller that I’d seen cited as a book she’d translated; I’ve read the book in English. And I […]

  10/07/2022 8:00 am

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• Notice: & with a favorite poem, or three

  

  (morningtime feat. photo, my cat Peeko 🐱 who helps me at times to complete one thing at a time—here, he’s a teatime supervisor ☕️ (he’s just had his breakfast and his daily brushing), a poetry book 📙, and a music box 🎶; you’ll see.) Last night, around midnight Something feels wrong now without a subject, […]

  08/18/2022 9:01 am

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• May Ziadeh in MainGate Magazine, a short biography with titles of speeches she gave—and her poetry

  

  My poet friend Hagop Kazazian sent me this article in a magazine from recent times: End Note Comments by me: —I wonder what she said about Columbus discovering America in her first speech at this college; I’d mention him myself often mostly metaphorically… —I believe her brother mentioned here died as a young child and […]

  08/17/2022 2:27 pm

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• It’s Monday and the Right Rumi Has Arrived

  

  May 23rd and continues a few days It’s Monday and the right Rumi has arrived. I’d sorted through editions, I found this pocket-like book containing that same 800 yrs ago poetry, but this time presented by various translators, the main editor’s aim to preserve Rumi’s original rhythm and conciseness. I could see that coming true […]

  05/23/2022 10:55 am

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• “I Wondered if I Had Been a Bird”

  

  featured photo is a painting by Franz Marc, “Birds” (1914) I Wondered if I Had Been a Bird by Jade Nicole Beals for May Ziadeh (b. 1886 – 1941) I was very disturbed when what I’d found logical what could explain all this is that I could’ve been a bird before this. A canary, your […]

  04/07/2022 8:32 pm

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• Indelible Magazine Poetry Launch—Reading My Poem, ‘Droplets Slide Down the Pine and Land Upon the Grass Within a Slow Dance’

  

  Updated to include end of post section, “Who’s May Ziadeh? ”* It’s here! Link: https://youtu.be/Cr-CsXJWum0 🎥🎤📜 I am on just around the 28:50 mark.😊After my line in the poem, ”Do you hear me?” I hear a reply. 😀😅💕 Afterwards, you may also see me give a pretty long answer to a surprise question that I […]

  03/14/2022 6:34 pm

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• Author and Poet, May Ziadeh’s Birthday

  

  Happy birthday, Mayy! 😊💕136 never looked so good! (…and that is earth years.) 😊🎊 b. Feb. 11, 1886 in Nazareth, lived in Egypt and Lebanon, d. Oct. 17, 1941 in Cairo. May Elias Ziadeh was a writer and editor, author of poetry, biographies and fiction, knew nine languages, was a speaker, translator, and tutor, and […]

  02/11/2022 4:27 pm

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• May Days 😉

  

  Jan. 19, 2022 My gaze was looking downward awhile, drinking a cup of tea, then singing, suddenly looked up: I sent the sky so many kisses; I didn’t count them…😊😘😘😊 * Our literary salon yesterday May Ziadeh hosting here was so diversified: music, meditation, comments, silent reading, and it closed with my latest painting. * […]

  01/19/2022 4:09 pm

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• Midnight Christmas Eve, A True Tale of Poetry

  

  light from one candle lights another, how Love makes you happier, has you love more…~Jade “Yes, I am a lady of incendiary destiny,” writes May Ziadeh in her own words in a letter of her lifetime. One day I said quietly in reply in my living room, ”I like you fiery, May; I like you […]

  12/25/2021 12:00 am

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• 7!

  

  a recent photo luxuriously flaunting his longness… Peeko knew it was his birthday today as soon as dawn’s waking, he ran! into the bedroom (instead of walking) as I was awakening and looked up at me with great attention and excitement, and with a hint of baby sweetness, and then he leapt onto the new […]

  11/08/2021 7:03 pm

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• Got On A Boat In A Book I Found, Made Me Laugh Aloud

  

  Let’s just do words, no pictures today. 😊 The new book I began is incredibly good, by the author Ameen Rihani I’d discovered listed as one of the very few of May Ziadeh’s literary colleagues (or of people she knew in general) who had helped get her out of the horrific mental asylum in Lebanon […]

  11/01/2021 11:34 am

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• Starting The Week with A Heart Back Intact and Plenty of Soulful Imaginings

  

  Hearing my audio poems; sometimes he’s a very fluffy bunny, and sometimes a slightly violent teddybear. Peeko’s Moon and a Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Truly Wise Book of Poems Over the weekend, Peeko sat by the book The Moon Before Morning like ’Read me more of these poems; it’s my moon!’ He is a Scorpio. […]

  09/13/2021 1:08 pm

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• A Little Joy To Share and What’s Made Me Smile

  

  The blush of dawn has been put back into the blog as you’d maybe seen. And the moon had been in many posts and is in the dawn now too as you can see, also yesterday, other side of sky. * I found that my cat Peeko’s dry food wasn’t right that I’d been getting […]

  08/27/2021 11:01 am

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• Off and On Its Way, The Faery Queene With Two Hemingways

  

  Notes added on 8/17 Along with The Faery Queene Book I by Edmund Spenser I’d fully read, I decided to return For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway partly read because it is a great book with depth I’d found most noticeably, but I’d also veered off events and newly introduced characters awhile. I […]

  08/16/2021 1:27 pm

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• A Short Story by May Ziadeh, Beloved: Memories of Lebanon

  

  Somehow I’d been looking at old posts and happened to come across a post in which I’d shared an article in a periodical I’d found written by May Ziadeh as I was moving through translating her first book of poems, Flowers of a Dream. I hadn’t read it then, had saved it for much later, […]

  08/09/2021 1:21 pm

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• Blush and Plenty of It

  

  The sky was azure blue when I woke and I said good morning. I sometimes practice saying ‘May’, with emphasis on the y accent for fun as I can spell a word now in a new language, her name: مي. She painted the sky just then with plenty of blush (I know in heaven a […]

  08/03/2021 8:06 pm

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• A Late July Saturday Walk in Boston

  

  So many roses to admire in the evening cool… Boston Public Garden * For some time these days, 80s music has been on a mission to lift your life to peaceful heights as you can see in this video I took of a drummer street performer by the harbor in Boston this past Saturday. I […]

  07/29/2021 8:14 am

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• I Tapped Closed Flowers of a Dream, My Heart Within It

  

  June 8, 2021 Dear May, This is so beautiful, thank you. It makes me think I might paint some of your skies onto my canvas with gratitude towards you, and extend this happiness. Last night, I finished collecting all of the poems of Flowers of a Dream by May Ziadeh in English and then I […]

  06/08/2021 10:39 am

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