A Bird from the Battlefront
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A Bird from the Battlefront

Reflections from War-Torn Syria

  1. 94 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 14 Jan |Learn more

A Bird from the Battlefront

Reflections from War-Torn Syria

About this book

This evening,
No one looks like me.
I put my heart into the fridge,
My eyes into the shoe closet.
I left my fingers yonder on the door handle.
This evening
No one looks like me
I set on the edge of my silence
Chew what is left of the news
Ask the lady announcer to become sexier
When numbering today's victims;
Her excitement is a surplus femininity
Messing with the awe of death.
This evening,
No one looks like me.
And the knife slitting my neck from behind
Feels as soft as the collar of my shirt.
One
Single
Unique
Solo
I am this evening
And no one looks like me
Except
The twenty-three million Syrians
Who write this same poem
Even now.

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Table of contents

  1. A Bird from the Battlefront
  2. About the Author
  3. Copyright Information ©
  4. Tiny Ink Creatures
  5. Admission
  6. Fantasy
  7. An Answer
  8. The Simple Truth
  9. Harmony
  10. Prophecy
  11. Boredom
  12. Egotism
  13. Prescription
  14. Eternity
  15. Struggle
  16. Red Handed
  17. Mistiming
  18. Apogee
  19. Lineage
  20. Treasure
  21. Proficiency
  22. Transformations
  23. Letdown
  24. Promotion
  25. Fantasy
  26. Modernity
  27. Anti-Restraining
  28. Doomsday
  29. Faceuality
  30. Uncertain
  31. Delegating
  32. But
  33. Soft power
  34. Misperceptions
  35. Alienation
  36. Behavioral Pattern
  37. Confusion
  38. A Fact from Nature
  39. Hedging
  40. A Paradox
  41. Interminable
  42. Songs from the War Land
  43. Every Night’s Story
  44. Solo Hymn
  45. The Sonata of Salvation
  46. Poetic Lies
  47. Syrian Dating
  48. Forgotten Behind
  49. Hand to Fly
  50. The Life Locker
  51. Breed of Survival
  52. Forecastable Image
  53. The Villanelle of Her Absence
  54. Fate
  55. Existence
  56. The Fiddler
  57. Alphabetical Encounter
  58. Coding
  59. The Bird of Nostalgia
  60. Protester Burial
  61. Revival
  62. Tales of the Battlefield
  63. Consequences
  64. A History’s Violation
  65. The Projectile and the Sparrow
  66. Lesson in Love
  67. Windows to Inward
  68. Fears from the Land of War
  69. Chair in a Nightmare