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Who can come up with a poem about the middle east conflict?

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  1. Path Of Peace

    Peace is an easy path to tread

    Peace is where our fears are mislaid

    Peace is beginning to restore

    Peace for each man, woman and child

    Peace for the troubled streets gone wild

    Peace is for the old and the young

    Peace in the end will overcome

    Peace builds trust into a lifestyle

    Peace is a friendly open hand

    Peace is a place to understand

    Peace in the end will overcome

    Peace is for the old and the young

    Peace is a legacy to leave

    Peace is when we don't have to grieve

    Peace is an end to all the hate

    Peace is why we negotiate

    Peace for all the victims of war  


  2. i am very bad at poetry,this is what i came up with, I wanted to share these two great poems

    : Here are two poems from the Middle East, one by an Arab and one by an Israeli. The poems are not different in feeling from what other sources give us. But they fulfill poetry's ability to crystallize feeling in a way more memorable, more nuanced, more haunting, than other kinds of language.

    First, a poem by the Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish, as translated from the Arabic by Tania Nasir:

    I AM FROM THERE

    I come from there and remember, I was born like everyone is born, I have a mother

    and a house with many windows,

    I have brothers, friends and a prison.

    I have a wave that sea-gullls snatched away.

    I have a view of my own and an extra blade of grass.

    I have a moon past the peak of words.

    I have the godsent food of birds and an olive tree beyond the ken of time.

    I have traversed the land before swords turned bodies into banquets.

    I come from there. I return the sky to its mother when for its mother the

    sky cries, and I weep for a returning cloud to know me.

    I have learned the words of blood-stained courts in order to break the rules.

    I have learned and dismantled all the words to construct a single one:

    Home

    And here is a passage from "Jerusalem, 1967," a poem by the late Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, as translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell:

    From "Jerusalem 1967"

    Always beside ruined houses and iron girders

    twisted like the arms of the slain, you find

    someone who is sweeping the paved path

    or tending the little garden, sensitive

    paths, square flower-beds,

    Large desires for a horrible death are well cared-for

    as in the monastery of the White Brothers next to the Lions' Gate.

    But farther on, in the courtyard, the earth gapes:

    columns and arches supporting the vain land

    and negotiating with one another: crusaders and guardian angels,

    a sultan and Rabbi Yehuda the Pious. Arched vaults with a

    column, ransom for prisoners, and strange conditions in rolled-up

    contracts, and sealing-stones. Curved hooks holding air.

    Capitals and broken pieces of columns scattered like chessmen

    in a game that was interrupted in anger,

    and Herod, who already, two thousand years ago, wailed

    like mortar-shells. He knew.

  3. My first son Hassan

    Was born on April the 9th

    You might think

    So what… why are you saying it

    With such a gloomy tune

    What is wrong with 9th of April?

    You have to be a Palestinian

    To understand

    For on the 9th of April 1948

    The massacre of Deir Yassin

    Took place

    Where every man women and child

    Of that peaceful farming village

    Was killed in cold blood

    No one survived

    Except those

    Who pretended to be dead

    As we celebrate the birth of a new born

    With joy

    We mourn and grief

    Lost loved ones



    In our midst

    Nothing comes insular

    Nothing is disjointed

    No single colors

    The fabric of our lives

    Makes the most amazing tapestry

    If you hold it backwards

    Looking at the wrong side

    You'll see a mirror image

    Of shades of a blurred picture

    With loops… knots and fraying thread

    If you turn it over

    It looks much neater

    But still you can't actually see

    The full picture

    Only colors and shadows

    But hey… take a little time

    And walk backwards

    Further back

    Look at the tapestry

    From a distance

    You will be amazed

    With its outstanding beauty

    All these murky shades

    That didn't make sense to you

    Even disturbed you

    When you were near

    From far

    These dark shadows

    Are precisely what makes this piece

    So unique

    So spectacular

    These unfathomable hues

    Is what give our life portrait

    Its depth

    And hidden dimensions

    Since that day of 1948

    Many… many babies were born

    On April the 9th

    Our joys are always stained

    With hints of sorrow

    Our sadness is always colored

    With hues of hope

    Without which

    The tapestry of our lives

    Will never be complete

    Won't be as rich

    Or as beautiful

    Don't waist much time

    Staring at the wrong side with fury

    Turn it over… walk further back… and feel the glory

      


  4. There is a small country of Arabs and Jews

    Who couldn't decide which pita was whose

    They fought for days and argued long nights

    Until the Jews said enough!  this isnt right

    So the then there was nothing left to do

    but argue about who humus belongs to who.

  5. It's a small poem dedicated to all of my Palestinian friends.

    In the deserts of Sudan

    And the gates of Palestine

    From Milan to Yucatan

    Every woman, every man

    Speak the word of freedom.

    In the wilds of Borneo

    And the vineyards of Bordeaux

    Eskimo, Arab, Arapaho

    Speak the word of freedom.

    In the dock of Tiger Bay

    On the road to Mandalay

    From Jerusalem to Santa Fe

    Over hills and far away,people

    Speak the word of freedom.

    Main idea was a fav poem by I. Drury a British open mind enslaved inside a suffering body.

    Bye bye

  6. A poem I just wrote about hope and peace and life.

    Title:Ani Ma'amin

    Ani Ma'amin

    I believe

    In a world of peace

    In a world of love

    Where neighbors

    Love neighbors

    Where HATE

    Is not scribbled

    All over the walls

    In big capital letters

    Where no one cries

    When no one must beary

    Their loved ones

    Who died too soon

    Where my flag

    And your flag

    Fly side-by-side

    Where there are no walls

    No fear

    No tears

    No exploding buses

    Or ugly checkpoints

    Where there is no shadows

    Where children can play

    Without fear

    Where people can laugh

    Where music plays

    And people dance

    Not afraid

    Never afraid

    Where no one says

    I hate you

    For no reason

    Just because

    Where people are free

    To live life the way

    It was meant to be lived-

    With laughter

    Where your God

    Is my God

    And it doesn't matter

    That we face different

    Directions when we pray

    Or have different holidays

    Or a different bible

    After all

    It's still one God

    So I believe

    I hope

    I pray

    Ani Ma'amin

  7. To you my wet dream "Lala"

    Das ist ein song fur alles die Middle-Easterneans from your Rabbi of p**n aka The Black-d***o of Fire.

    Give a bit of Middle-East to me (You're a mystery)

    And I give a bit of Middle-East to you (It's so confusing)

    Give a bit of Middle-East to me (You're a mystery)

    And I give a bit of Middle-East to you (Or am I dreaming?)

    Give a bit of Middle-East to me (You're a mystery)

    And I give a bit of Middle-East to you (It's so confusing)

    Give a bit of Middle-East to me (You're a mystery)

    And I give a bit of Middle-East to you (Or am I dreaming?)

    Give a bit of Middle-East to me (You're a mystery)

    And I give a bit of Middle-East to you (It's so confusing)

    Give a bit of Middle-East to me (You're a mystery)

    And I give a bit of Middle-East to you (Or am I dreaming?)

    For you I break all the rules

    And for you I go to the moon

    'Cause you're the one

    There's no-one else

    There's no-one else (There's no-one else)

    There's no-one else (There's no-one else)

    Give a bit of Middle-East to me (You're a mystery)

    And I give a bit of Middle-East to you (It's so confusing)

    Give a bit of Middle-East to me (You're a mystery)

    And I give a bit of Middle-East to you (Or am I dreaming?)

    Vould you like me to wisper this poem to your silky smooth ears while I hold you firmly in my musculine arms, ya?

    Das ist gut, ya? Zeeeeeeeeehr good meine little horny devil Lala!

    (Translation: Veeeeeeeery good my horny little angel, Lala!)

  8. The middle east has screwed the pooch

    'cause GWB been back at the hootch.

    And there ya go.

  9. abraham left each son a will

    telling that the others had to be killed

    his grandchildren fight a fight that's so old

    for the will of a man who would sacrifice his son to god.

  10. In a land far far away, monsters roam the earth. Life is worthless and humanity is plagued with hunger. The living conditions are not suitable for animals, let alone the poor citizens of this land. But what should be expected from a land that has been taken over by monsters. The horror that this terrain has been consumed by has caused some people to flee their homes. Still, others stay steadfast , vowing never to be bullied out of their abodes, as humble as they may be. Those who left will be ever ridiculed for having abandoned their homes in a time of crisis. But the woes of their counterparts are unfathomable. The monstrosities that have flooded into the area have forced the remaining dwellers into hiding. Yet, even in hiding they are not safe.

    In the calm of the evenings, doors are smashed open and children are ripped from the bosoms of comfort. They are beaten and humiliated, after which they are kept in isolation. What do you ask is the crime they have committed; this is an easy one, they chose to stay home rather than run.

    Stay, Stay. Do not desert what will one day belong to you again. Once you leave there is no turning back. It is too great and vast outside your home. When you leave you allow the demise of divinity to take place. Lost are those who left. But to you who stay, fear not creation, fear the creator. For those who are pious know your place in his text.

    Released from captivity, these young men make their way back home. The reality of it is that their homes have been destroyed during the time spent in detainment. There is no comfort in future occupations, for that to has been taken away as well. All their property has been ruined. Life is grim. Mothers weeping for lost husbands and sons. Children crying, longing to put back together their broken homes. Young ladies refusing to produce offspring's for fear of this world. Nevertheless, as shattered as spirits have become, they rise again and again.

    These monsters are frightening, with their mighty armor and unparalleled weaponry. The wickedness of their vengeful plight to wipe out the remainder of these persons puts them in a sphere of their own. Lack of sympathy for mankind has set such characters apart from all civilizations. Fear not, ye whom be oppressed. History has taught that all things high above the rest shall come crashing down eventually.

    Mothers withhold those tears, for they shall never be enough to salvage all that has been lost in the precious land of PALESTINE

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