Read today's poem Notes Written on the Wind, by Mohammed Moussa, Gaza Poets Society.
Notes Written on the Wind
Fugitive, like a heart haunted by a city;
lonely, like a rose no one plucks;
besieged, like birds of an occupied sky;
light, like a body carried by a loaf of bread;
lost, like an unfinished song;
weary, like a river into which only despair flows;
broken, like a season that takes no rest from absence;
silent, like a child whispering in the ear of death;
forgotten, like a wind still dancing with the last sun;
and mysterious, like a poem wrapped in a tobacco leaf.
Free/
for I live in a country that lives
only in my head.
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