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The Olive Tree

Dema Al-Obaidy

Against a bloody fence

She leant so tired

Surrounded and imprisoned

by thorny barbed wires

Upon her old branches

memories were carved

of people who resisted

of kids who starved

Feeling the near danger

The sky's suffocation

to again rain blood

without hesitation

and she once witnessed

the uprising of stones

and the cowardice of enemies

those behind thrones

She kept her identity

The green Olive Tree

standing tall in Palestine

The land of the free
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Submitted on February 21, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A X X X X B X B X X X X X X A C C X C
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 429
Words 76
Stanzas 19
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
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Dema Al-Obaidy

لم يعرفوني في الظلال التي تمتص لوني في جواز السفر.......وكان جرحي عندهم معرضا لسائح يعشق جمع الصور......لم يعرفوني..آه لا تتركي كفي بلا شمس.......لأن الشجر يعرفني؛ تعرفني كل اغاني المطر.......لا تتركيني شاحبا كالقمر! ......عار من الاسم من الانتماء في تربة ربيتها باليدين......ايوب صاح اليوم ملء السماء لا تجعلوني عبرة مرتين!........يا سادتي يا سادتي الانبياء لا تسألوا الاشجار عن اسمها لا تسألوا الوديان عن امها......من جبهتي ينشق سيف الضياء ومن يدي ينبع ماء النهر.........كل قلوب الناس جنسيتي.......فلتسقطوا عني جواز السفر. more…

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