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  1. Fever....Fever...Fever...

    Quote Originally Posted by Mohammad Ahmad View Post


    Winter comes and it can calm the fever


    Long poem written by

    Mohammad Mahmud Ahmad


    Iraq- Mosul



    Fever… Fever… Fever…
    Who can endure the fever?
    What damage causes the fever?
    Headache… backache…sever body pains….
    Two weeks ago or more, I suffer…
    Griefs fill my faded eyes at gloomy moments…
    Felt as if I was put on unfathomable valley…
    My emotions,
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  2. Let people determine their dream

    Quote Originally Posted by Mohammad Ahmad View Post


    Let people determine their dream

    Verses written by the Iraqi translator

    Mohammad Mahmud Ahmad


    Earth would complain and close its window.
    Sever obstacles denote to harm future from now…
    What can we do if politics turn mad?
    Alas! Our fate nowadays turns on evils hand…
    Sever cautions of sever melancholy dreams…
    A child beseeches Allah in crying terms…
    O, meadow let me taking a nap for a while…
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  3. The hen that adopts ostrich's nestling-poem for children

    Quote Originally Posted by Mohammad Ahmad View Post


    The hen that adopts ostrich's nestling

    Written by

    Mohammad Mahmud Ahmad


    The rooster sees a large egg one day
    It has two colours white and gray.
    He steals it from a poor bird's nest.
    When he comes back from another way

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    The rooster asks the sparrow, is it yours?
    The sparrow astonishes and flees away.
    Staggering, cursing the occasion of that day
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  4. What remains in life?

    Quote Originally Posted by Mohammad Ahmad View Post




    What remains in life?

    Poem written by

    Mohammad Ahmad


    Iraq is the symbol of honour.


    Many years ago, I have claimed the victor
    Nothing had I taste but only the bitter.
    Your naked blossom appears as a shadowy olive tree.
    I wish I got rest at thy shadow and drank a cup of tea.
    Didn’t you tell me to look to the flying bird?
    Didn’t you see the falcon and you
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  5. Dreamy night at desert - blank verses

    Quote Originally Posted by Mohammad Ahmad View Post
    Dreamy night at desert

    Blank verses written by


    Mohammad Mahmud Ahmad

    25 December 2012


    O, pigeon let me smart on my pain
    Many desires call me to move away….
    Thirteen days I suffer melancholy moments
    And your lantern fuels bad to me….
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    Awakes me at dawn as severe volcano
    Hurts my head even my abdomen becomes large
    Snapping of dirty claws pinch my chest until turns
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