#maram al massri

[soracities]

Maram al-Massri, from A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor (trans. Khaled Mattawa) [ID'd]

[roseverie]

do you have any poetry/anthology book recommendations? 🤍

- Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire

- Ariel by Sylvia Plath

- Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Glück

- Averno by Louise Glück

- Certain Magical Acts by Alice Notely

- The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limon

- Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975 by Margaret Atwood

- Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

- The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

- The Moon Is Always Female: Poems by Marge Piercy

- Extracting the Stone of Madness by Alejandra Pizarnik

- Cherry Blossom Epiphany: the poetry and philosophy of a flowering tree by Robin D. Gill

- I Always Carry My Bones by Felicia Zamora

- Howling at the Moon by Darshana Suresh

- The Black Unicorn: Poems by Audre Lorde

- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

- Haruko: Love Poems by June Jordan

- The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu

- Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

- Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence by Gregory Orr

- Crush by Richard Siken

- Rose by Li-Young Lee

- A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor: Selected Poems by Maram al-Massri

[89rooms]

My pain will be red like a ripe cherry mashed on a white tile–

Maram al-Massri - 'A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor: Selected Poems, translation Khaled Mattawa

[dwtdog]

howl allen ginsberg was like The poem that jumped at me specially the few last lines "in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across". mary oliver also appeared inmediatel specially this quote i read a few weeks ago "The ocean a blue fire /around your ankles, the sun / on your face on your shoulders its golden mouth whispering / (so it seems) you! you! you!". in the same way, who by sylvia plath "Eaten or rotten. I am all mouth." speaks to me as well as blackberrying..... rainer maria rilke with I believe "What no one has dared to dream of / will be born through me by your grace." though I like this translation by anita barrows and joanna macy best (i just cant find it fully!!). UM. oranges roisin kelly gives me omegaverse vibes i think its the focus on the sensory? this quote by Maram al-Massri is really good. and Honestly I think I might've just ignored the werewolf compotent to this at ALL so maybe these are all useless but hey. Poems! anyway linking you tag anne carson and dear birnmingham gabrielle bates because of course If the links don't work I willbe very sad.

OHHHH THANK YOUUUU just going from the quotes these seem So Good i need to deep dive into all of them wahhhh tysmm

[bee-a-ts]

"How foolish: Whenever my heart hears a knocking it opens its doors." ~Maram Al-Massri

Finn and her daughter, Emelin Garlond, two years after Endwalker.

By the incredible @felrija - she was an absolute dream to work with and I need to go lay down on the floor for a week now because having this art fully realized has taken me fully the fuck out <3

[honeyandelixir]

By: Maram Al-Massri

[ladychlo]

Hiiii Chay, how are you??? Hope you’re doing great!✨ But now that Harry is being sap on main and talking about poetry, can you recommend me/us your fav poetry books? Thanks❤️

Hi love ❤️ I'm doing fine how about you? hope you're having a lovely day!

okay, I'm gonna try to mention some of poetry collection/books I love and poems by some poets I really love, but these the only ones I could find the translation of, and I have so many other in mind 😭

Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me and Other Poems by Ghassan Zaqtan

Adonis: Selected Poems

A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor by  Maram al-Massri 

Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems by Mahmoud Darwish (anything actually by this poet is to be read. I love one of his poems called Rita and the Rifle)

also his other book called The butterfly's burden : poems

Arabian Love Poems by Nizar Qabbani

Listen to the Mourners by Nāzik Al-Malā’ika

A Season in Hell by Rimbaud

Letters To Lou by Apollinaire

Capital of Pain (Capitale de la douleur) by Paul Éluard

Defy the Silence by Rasha Omran

My Friend by khalil gibran

To A Girl Sleeping In The Street by Nāzik Al-Malā’ika

First Kiss by Tim Seibles

Numerical conjecture by Fowziyah Abu-khalid

from The Book of Games by Rana Al Tonsi

The Ship Of Love by Salma Jayyusi

Ghazal by Edil Hassan

obsession by Doria Shafik

Bermudas / South by Kamau Brathwaite

To A Friend by Parveen Shakir

Enivrez-vous (drink) by Charles Baudelaire

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot

Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W. B. Yeats

Accents By Denice Frohman

The Bond By Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

[ahotknife]

sufjan stevens

excerpt from ‘four poems by carla’

howl’s moving castle (2004)

rainer maria rilke

maram al-massri

sylvia plath

margaret atwood

tennessee williams

joni mitchell

[soracities]

Maram al-Massri, from A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor (trans. Khaled Mattawa) [ID'd]

[fromsilencetolanguage]

Knocks on the door

Knocks on the door. Who? I sweep the dust of my loneliness under the rug. I arrange a smile and open.

- Maram al-Massri

[lillamolntuss]

 sufjan stevens/maram al-massri/snail mail/carl sandburg

[midnightfestivalmagic]

"Knocks on the door. Who? I sweep the dust of my loneliness under the rug. I arrange a smile and open."

Maram Al-Massri, "Knock on the door"

[mxr140xs3jd1n1]

How foolish: whenever my heart hears a knocking it opens its doors.

- Maram al-Massri

[fuera-del-tintero-blog]

Maram al Massri (Siria, 1962). Desde 1982 reside en París, dedicada a la escritura. En su poesía, de tono onírico y sugerente y con un imaginario a caballo entre la tradición árabe y la occidental, tienen particular presencia la sexualidad y el erotismo, siempre desde una voz femenina que decide, goza y se arriesga. Este poema pertenece a su libro Te miro, traducido al español por Rafael Ortega.

[made-it-2-60]

Cherry on a White-tiled Floor

(Fragment from a poem by Maram Al-Massri)

The thieves of sleep

have raided my night.

One of them pitied me

and left me the morning

shining on the table.

[honeyandelixir]

By: Maram Al-Massri