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Ghost Town, devastated forests, orchards fire devastated, refugees in their millions, hundreds of thousands of deaths, a war that is raging and a future without prospects. This, in a nutshell, is the tragedy of Syria. In the midst of all this, or stand on the outskirts of the Syrian intellectuals. Some have joined the armed struggle against the regime, others have both feet in the political field. The pain of loss can be overwhelming silence the more articulate. But, surprisingly, the poets Syrians were not negligent in their mission. Their voices resonate, unsilenced, vma 2011 in the midst of tragedy, vma 2011 producing an endless stream of poems and reflections on the destruction in all its grandeur inconceivable. New, independent newspapers, magazines, books and texts in Arabic newspapers and on the Internet are spreading wonderfully vma 2011 like never before. Everything must be placed the Syrian poet in an unfamiliar situation. The Blog dissident So he asked some of the poets who contribute to this issue: What does it mean to be a Syrian poet today?
Lina Tibi Penelope, yes, for me it means to be Penelope, weaving and re-weaving itself along shroud of excruciating pain. It means having the same patience vma 2011 as he did while waiting for her love to return. I just replace the name of your loved one in my country. At such a time we can only wait, lick our wounds and pursuing hope. It is not strange that in Arabic, the words hope and pain are anagrams? I have to be like Penelope. vma 2011 But Penelope weaves in silence. Every time pricked she cries and talks. Keeping vma 2011 silent is a crime nowadays, a heinous crime. Being a Syrian poet today is to live with a pain that twists, multiplying to penetrate all its pores open. Being a poet and a woman in a time when women scream of pain means that I have to acquire a different consciousness. Neither the language nor the poem is sufficient to recreate what has been deleted. Being a Syrian poet, wife and mother means that I have to embrace all pain, to be a sort of Jesus carrying his cross. Pain treatment of pain, wounds heal wounds. It 'the same with death. Does that mean I have to be a Mary, scouring the woods for something to dress the wounds vma 2011 of Jesus' vma 2011 with. Our Jesus has a gaping, vma 2011 bleeding wound. It would take more than a whole forest to heal her. Being a Syrian poet means I have to re-evaluate my vocabulary and create a new language, it means that I put all my senses in the bloodiness. Means that I write with blood instead of ink. It means that I leave aside my lipstick and makeup. It means wiping the tears that soaked into the ground and hiding my inside of me to fall apart on its own.
Hazem Alazmah means read, write and live where there is no room for life or writing. I mean to live a normal life, in which you are not a refugee or a mouse, and they are not persecuted, and that many poets alive today along with millions of others. I still live in Damascus. You may be lucky, and nothing else, I have not been impressed by this war that is raging indiscriminately against vma 2011 urban neighborhoods, homes and cities. The life of the Syrian vma 2011 poet is like that of all other poets. We have all the war and killing in the face, every day. We like all the poets who find themselves having to choose sides between life and freedom.
Amira Abul Husn The most important questions today are that of freedom and survival of dictatorial - including religious - regimes. For me as a poet and a Syrian, this means everything. Being a Syrian poet means you have broken a long silence. This also means that you have conquered your fears. He looks you in the eye, fully able to search your soul so that you can see yourself in a new light. It means breaking voluntary isolation to integrate with other people, because they need you and you need it. Perhaps poetry is inaccessible to you, but will return. The dream of a better country greater than the poem. Perhaps it will also give you the incentive to create a poem better.
Racha Omran Being a Syrian poet means to converse with death every day and become vma 2011 familiar with sadness and pain. Means drinking alcohol mixed with despair and with lacrime.Significa invent simple ways to live. Being a human being to prevent your soul to become disfigured. It means sometimes pursue small pleasures like short stories of love and laughter. And write anything not to lose. Do not forget that if