When flocks of swallows migrate from their homelands… you hear in the rustling of their wings the sound of his poetry’s music… And when you read Mahmoud Darwish… you hear in his lines… in his meanings the songs of those migratory birds… and you realize that those birds were not singing to be delighted… but to express the anguish of longing… and to weep over the tragedy of migration… And Mahmoud Darwish does not compose poetry… but from his meanings poems end… so the words sway… pulling each other… in an innate spontaneity… in which the feeling is immersed… you identify with it and with it… and you travel far away in the world of his poems… and you feel all the pangs of homelessness and what it means for a person to be without a homeland… “And what have we reaped, O mother, that we should die twice… Do you know what fills me with tears?… Suppose I fall ill one night… and my body is destroyed by illness… Does the evening remember a migrant who came here… and did not return to the homeland? Does the evening remember… a migrant who died without a homeland… A shroud…”
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