Mohammad Ahmad
08-26-2014, 11:18 AM
O, camel: why do you keep silent?
Are you worried to answer?
Days and you feed nothing
Days and you were wondering
Surrounding our desert, you steeped up
Beside a nettle grass you looked down
And the boxthorns slice your mouth
O, Iraq you are as a camel still patient
You are as a wounded camel but patient
Your entire nation is in danger
But your tooth still smiles
Lo! For how long can you stay patient?
Still your rivers as a bridge of two edges
Still your boys play and kissing the nice skies
For what then do you feel frightened?
HCabret
08-26-2014, 02:00 PM
The camel doesn't remain silent out of fear, but out of defiance. Ziggurats mar his land and abuse his family. The camel is refusing to partake in the violence of an invasive species who does not even have respect for their own heritage. Babylon is not rising, it is falling.
Good poem! Made me think!
Mohammad Ahmad
08-27-2014, 10:53 AM
The camel doesn't remain silent out of fear, but out of defiance. Ziggurats mar his land and abuse his family. The camel is refusing to partake in the violence of an invasive species who does not even have respect for their own heritage. Babylon is not rising, it is falling.
Good poem! Made me think!
Firstly, I would like to thank you for reading and for your comments and as I read it I noticed that something need to be clarified and discussed.
You have the right or anybody has the right to understand my verses as you want or as he wants, but you may know that the most famous feature on the camel side is the patience.
In addition, I want to remind you that the stubborn feature is perfectly to the mule and here it isn’t acceptable, however, poetry has unique characteristics most of them are the similarity and metaphor.
When the camel endures its agonizing pains and keeping silent, what does this mean?
No doubt, it means that the camel, which I made as a symbol referring to Iraq, is a very patient creature having tolerance and wisdom, so as if that I inquire my country why does it keep silent against all of its true ordeals whilst in the same time I admire.
I don’t deny that there isn’t danger going to surround eating and destroying our ancient civilization the Babylonian civilization but what is in our hand to do?
The matter is very serious, those aren't true Muslims, they are tools moving by others hands, many of the western countries giving them supports either financially or other military aspects as well as the regional supports as well as the religious factor of some countries neighbors to Iraq.
Please let me, I myself keep silent instead and don't engage myself to discuss more and more about the last event thundering in my country but let me tell you some historical view about the recent years beginning from the Iraqi Iranian war at 1980s.
Short historical view
1980s- 2014
Abstract:
After Iraq has finished his war with the Persian side in 1988, its military was considered the forth military in the world and it is ordinary that someone will be consumed by fire, turning furious and turning rancor or even jealous because of the Iraqis vectors.
Then Iraq invades Kuwait in August 1990 why?
Indeed, Iraq hasn’t any cupidity at al- Kuwait region but the most reason had come beyond of petroleum exporting and Iraq in that time was at a very necessity to get rid from its war debts.
After many attempts dominated with failure Iraq had had negotiated with gulf countries secretaries, Iraq was obliged to trigger his war, gulf war one.
After a short period of time America and thirty-three militaries had come to the region with their modern excellent weapons fighting Iraq destroying its substructure, and no forth- grade Iraqi military then remain, no arms, no any military institution and everything of life in that time had been going to be totally damaged or paralyzed.
Then the most dangerous and serious occupation to Iraq is the 2003 occupation came by the former president of US Mr. Bush who triggers his campaign to Iraq pretending that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, but it is just false idea and the investigation couldn’t find anything.
Moreover, this time after Bush's War those who came to Iraq to be in charge of the government or installed by Bush himself are those of everyone who is bad and mad or even ill tempered or who doesn't have the minimum level of knowledge in how to lead the country.
The mainly feature that was apparently seen and apparently created is the sectarian feature because who works on it previously knowing that there is a still living background for it.
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