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Aidoneus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-03 12:45 AM
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Obituary: Fadwa Tuqan
Fadwa Tuqan
Palestinian poet who captured her nation's sense of loss and defiance

Lawrence Joffe
Monday December 15, 2003
The Guardian


http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1107273,00.html

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Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan dies
Saturday 13 December 2003

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2D6B2651-F6FD-467D-9BD4-717C178EB7F6.htm

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'Poetess Of Palestine' Fadwa Tuqan Dead
Saturday, December 13 2003 @ 11:42 PM EST

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=2003121323425253
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Lithos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-03 01:00 AM
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1. A real loss to all.
She wrote some beautiful poems.

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I FOUND IT

I found it on a radiant day
after a long drifting.
It was green and blossoming
as the sun over palm trees
scattered golden bouquets;
April was generous that season
with loving and sun.

I found it
after a long wandering.
It was a tender evergreen bough
where birds took shelter,
a bough bending gently under storms
which later was straight again,
rich with sap,
never snapping in the wind’s hand.
It stayed supple
as if there were no bad weather,
echoing the brightness of stars,
the gentle breeze,
the dew and the clouds.

I found it
on a vivid summer day
after a long straying
a tedious search.
It was a quiet lake
where thirsty human wolves
and swirling winds could only briefly
disturb the waters.
Then they would clear again like crystal
to be the moon’s mirror,
swimming place of light and blue,
bathing pool for the guardian stars.

I found it!
And now when the storms wail
and the face of the sun is masked in clouds,
when my shining fate revolves to dark,
my light will never be extinguished!
Everything that shadowed my life
wrapping it with night after night
has disappeared, lain down
in memory’s grave,
since the day
my soul found
my soul.
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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-03 09:08 AM
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2. An amazing talent
that will be sorely missed.
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Resistance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 08:28 AM
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3. she will be missed
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