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English:

"I used to think, that my pen was
Strong like the wind,
Mighty like the sword
And I was wrong:
The Poet indeed is a weakling,
Like the moon in the desert
That borrows glory
From the sun, for itself." [comments] => 5 [counter] => 183 [topic] => 69 [informant] => Jarmen_Kell [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => arabic [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 14 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => poets )

I Was Once a Poet II (The Moon of the Desert)

Contributed by Jarmen_Kell on Wednesday, 25th August 2004 @ 10:45:50 PM in AEST
Topic: poets

Arabic ('Arabiyyah'):

English:

"I used to think, that my pen was
Strong like the wind,
Mighty like the sword
And I was wrong:
The Poet indeed is a weakling,
Like the moon in the desert
That borrows glory
From the sun, for itself."

Copyright © Jarmen_Kell ... [ 2004-08-25 22:45:50]
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Re: I Was Once a Poet II (The Moon of the Desert) (User Rating: 1 )
by Nazmythian on Thursday, 26th August 2004 @ 06:18:28 PM AEST
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>>> Rereads again and again, awestruck .

That is incredible.

Nazmythian ~

Re: I Was Once a Poet II (The Moon of the Desert) (User Rating: 1 )
by Silent-No-More on Thursday, 26th August 2004 @ 07:34:52 PM AEST
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Wow... yeh... I've read over a few times myself and I got lost in it. There is an awful lot to ponder on here! I like this piece very much... though, stubbornly - I don't want to agree with it's message. Whether or not I'm in agreement... I am rather impressed.

Thinking words are powerful things,
SNM

Re: I Was Once a Poet II (The Moon of the Desert) (User Rating: 1 )
by venkat on Thursday, 26th August 2004 @ 11:59:59 PM AEST
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beautiful and thought provoking..enjoyed it:-) venkat

Re: I Was Once a Poet II (The Moon of the Desert) (User Rating: 1 )
by wray on Monday, 17th January 2005 @ 12:32:50 PM AEST
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This is one of those poems that stands alone forever as a rare, profound-truth kind of masterpiece. Like the others I reread this several times for experimentation and was struck by how sometimes it sounds like a conclusive declaration, and other times like an unfinished rising-dawn song. Wonderful writing :)

Re: I Was Once a Poet II (The Moon of the Desert) (User Rating: 1 )
by Ruby2sdy on Friday, 2nd June 2006 @ 09:00:21 AM AEST
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Very proverbial, I liked it very much.

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