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    Between Your Ribs: Love Poems
    Between Your Ribs: Love Poems
    Between Your Ribs: Love Poems
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    Between Your Ribs: Love Poems

    By Amany Al-Hallaq

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    I love you, darling.
    The word love, try to replace it . . .
    eventually you will discover love remains the same . . .
    It cannot be replaced with any word in our worlds dictionaries.
    It is a word with a wonderful mixture of all beautiful meanings.
    It plays the sweetest melodies, rhythms, and the underbelly of their range.

    Somewhere between stormy passion and haunting despair lies a powerful feeling like no other. Love is a complicated emotion, one that all of us struggle to understand at one time or another.

    In her first compilation of poetry in English, Palestinian poet Amany Al-Hallaq shares moving, lyrical verse that reveals all the passionate emotions that accompany falling in love. With an honest, relatable style, Al-Hallaq relies on vivid imagery as she takes an unforgettable journey through love, comparing the powerful emotion to a sweet mango, with its seductive taste, smooth skin, and magnificent fragrance.

    Al-Hallaqs poetry eloquently speaks of love through deviant lust, a luminous smile, and a gentle whisper while positing that through every challenge, true love stands strong and able to withstand any stormproving that no matter what, it really is sweeter than a mango.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateOct 31, 2011
    ISBN9781465370020
    Between Your Ribs: Love Poems
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    Amany Al-Hallaq

    Amany Al-Hallaq was born in Palestine and raised in the State of Qatar, where she published ninety single poems in Arabic. In 2002, she moved to the United States. Between Your Ribs: Love Poems is her first collection of poetry in English. To learn more about Amany, please visit her website, www.amanyalhallaq.com

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      Book preview

      Between Your Ribs - Amany Al-Hallaq

      Glimmer of Your Eyes

      Since I was a child, I have not known adventures.

      Allow me to launch my adventures from your eyes.

      Let me hover around every place and time.

      Let me touch the colors of the rainbow painted on

      the surface of the sky. I hope to taste the raindrops

      in the heart of the clouds. I would like to discover

      the beauty of the atmosphere that embraces the tears

      of your eyes.

      Let me find out every corner of the sky and the land

      of your eyes. I am the lover who is cauterized with the fire

      of the love that lives in your eyes. I am deprived of all

      the beauty of the universe, which is held in your eyes.

      I am a mad lover every time your eyes glimmer.

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      Chesapeake

      My lover calls to me. He trembles from the city of Chesapeake.

      The phone resonates with his arresting voice:

      Without seeing you, my life is barren of joy.

      My lips and heart lose their way to happiness.

      Reconcile me to felicity here in Chesapeake.

      After being apart for many years, the loving words

      leaked through my fingers and became sweet memories.

      Words cannot bear his brightness. His beauty’s crucible

      melts verses and poems transform to candles, illuminating

      my way to him. Longing refuses to stay on the pages;

      bursting forth, it carries me like a magic carpet to his arms.

      Returning, on the verge of drowning in my longing’s ocean,

      after I deluged him with my torrent of poetic adoration.

      Returning, after my heart’s well dried up, it yearned for a sip

      of his affection.

      Arriving to the lover who redeemed my pains while giving birth

      to my poems.

      Approaching the lover who painted with his beauty my sweetest,

      maddest moments.

      I come back to his deep, alluring eyes that melt mortals’ hearts

      and crumble all cities and the touch of his royalty within the folds

      of his eyes.

      Our burning lips witness the birth of feelings.

      Intoxicated within his embrace.

      Our dances, the tango and flamenco, inspirit our nights, and in

      Island Café, we drank our evenings, our black coffee.

      I am an exhausted lover, who drifted among all countries,

      who lost her identity away from Chesapeake’s arms.

      My love, I am a world of fatigue; let me repose

      within your chest’s warmth

      and forget me there.

      Involuntary Love

      I despise him yet yearn to see him.

      I glimpse his subtle deception, which

      he covers with his charming glances.

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