On Mahmoud Darwish ♥ 79th Birthday

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❝ Here, at the mercy of time,
on these foothills at sunset
near ripped-up orchards stripped of their shadows,
we do what prisoners do,
we do what the unemployed do:
we cultivate hope.

 
❝ We are alone. We are alone to the point
of drunkenness with our own aloneness,
with the occasional rainbow visiting.

- Mahmoud Darwish -

March 13, 1941 - August 9, 2008

The Poet of Palestinian People

Mahmoud Darwish

An accessible look at Darwish's life and work, at long last 
© The Electronic Intifada

Exile Is So Strong Within Me, I May Bring It To the Land 
A Landmark 1996 Interview with Mahmoud Darwish
© The Palestine Project