Pretty And Cool Girls Follow Me And All I Do Is Make A Fool Of Myself In Front Of Them

Young Mahmoud Darwish, (Palestinian poet and writer)

محمود درويش في شبابه، شاعر القضية الفلسطينية

His Life:

Mahmoud Darwish was born in "Al Birweh" Palestine (1941), During the establishment of the State of "Israel" in (1948), his village was destroyed and his family fled to Lebanon. As a young man, Darwish faced house arrest and imprisonment for his political activism and for publicly reading his poetry. - Darwish published his first work of poetry "Wingless Birds" in (1964), when he was 19.

His Poems:

I am from there, I am from here. I am not there, and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part. And I have two languages, I forget which

We love life if we find a way to it. And we plant, where we settle, some fast growing plants, and harvest the dead. We play the flute like the color of the faraway, sketch over the dirt corridor a neigh. We write our names one stone at a time, O lightning brighten the night. We love life if we find a way to it…

If the canary doesn't sing to you my friend know that you are the warden of your prison

- Translated by Fady Joudah

can we all agree that walking outside and sitting in the sun

Lil triangle

“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”

— Lao Tzu

Geometric obelisk skeletons

You think murderers get rid of all the evidence and not keep some as a memoir? Like a number plate or a ear.

The murder

I think it’s time to read this again

"We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you. "

-André Aciman, Call me by your name.