Btw, this is not really my poem but one of my friend's poem, I got her permission to post it here because I wanted to share it. She is from a islamic background, which is why she uses those in the poem.
#The woman who waited for the sea
verbal sluice
minor wolf
Btw, this is not really my poem but one of my friend's poem, I got her permissio...
This reads like a love letter written by history itself.
Every line carries dust, wind, and memory myth breathing inside the present. Nice work ngl have a great day.
verbal sluice
"I was born from the rib of a forgotten hymn," means that the woman is not born from a rib simply, if you know the bible where it says that eve is created from the rib of adam, but rather born from music, i think.
"half jasmine, half desert wind," jasmine could mean fragrance, femininity and delicate, whereas desert wind often means harshness.
median marlinBOT
"half jasmine, half desert wind," jasmine could mean fragrance, femininity and ...
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verbal sluice
Lilith is a symbol of refusal to submit, rebellion, Ishtar is a symbol of sacrifice, resurrection and Scheherazade is a storyteller, except in here she is trying to keep the possibility of her lover alive.
"quranic fig and olive" it could refer to the quran, a verse where god swears by "the fig and the olive" in surah at-tin.
Andalusia is old spain, i think, the meaning could be the loss of islamic golden age, and it may mean also exile, migration means departure, movement or return but never staying. her lover is not a person, he is loss itself, someone who never stays.
“the untranslatable sigh of Andalib in exile” andalib means nightingale in Persian poetry, symbol of the lover crying for the rose. “untranslatable sigh” could refer to a longing that cannot be expressed in any language
verbal sluice
i think it may be smth else. it's the fragrance of a lost, soft home (jasmine) vs. the harsh, erasing reality of her isolation (desert wind).
fahh, i hate my life, bruh, why am i even dreading over this shi like it is my exam💔
robust halo
i didn't help but what was it in the end?
I thought it would probably be the thing about the islamic golden age
verbal sluice
I thought it would probably be the thing about the islamic golden age
late response, but which one?🤔
i mean you can add your own interpretation here, like i did. i just went after whatever made sense and mainly the quranic fig and olive i did not understand till she clarified it.
lime osprey
@slim musk idk, since you're middle eastern, thought this sounded more like it
paper pineBOT
slim musk
since u complained sum abt there barely being arabs, idk
No bruh
