Originally Posted by Mohammad Ahmad

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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Originally Posted by Mohammad Ahmad

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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Originally Posted by Mohammad Ahmad

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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Originally Posted by Mohammad Ahmad

Reading on Mesopotamia

Discussed and dialoged by

Mohammad Mahmud Ahmad

Sargon enters the hall comes from distance.
Sennacherib said to him welcome.
They sat for a while.
Three Assyrian girls entered and offering them dates and curdled yoghurt.
Sennacherib: what do you think cousin, Sumerian in the south left nothing to us? The roads are closed and there is no additional to reach the south occasion.

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Originally Posted by Mohammad Ahmad

Leaves of autumn

Special poem written by

Mohammad Mahmud Ahmad



O, lover who confined my way
As a faded flower, the wind blows it away
My eyes become sunken and drown deeply
Sleepless nights damage them day after day

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Their caravan moved suddenly to the west
I stand by the door scratch my wrist
My elbow becomes necrosis since they leave

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