{"id":12069,"date":"2022-12-15T09:35:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T07:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=12069"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:26:40","slug":"two-poems-fromdesert-songs-by-yahia-lababidi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/two-poems-fromdesert-songs-by-yahia-lababidi\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems From <em>Desert Songs<\/em> by Yahia Lababidi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Desert Songs, Poetry by Yahia Lababidi<\/em><br \/>\nTranslated from the Arabic by Osama Esber<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/61311838-desert-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rowayat<\/a> 2022<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ose-vimeo ose-uid-3a013e69abb75774896d8b1c2603a33e ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Vimeo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"Video.mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/781194980?dnt=0&amp;app_id=122963&title=0&color=00ADEF&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0&loop=0&autopause=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12070\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12070\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/yahia-lababidi-solitude-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/yahia-lababidi-solitude-image.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/yahia-lababidi-solitude-image-600x298.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/yahia-lababidi-solitude-image-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/yahia-lababidi-solitude-image-768x382.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from &#8220;Solitude and the Proximity to Infinite Things,&#8221; <em>Desert Songs<\/em> by Yahia Lababidi (Rowayat, 2022).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Solitude and the Proximity to Infinite Things<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12071\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/yahia-labibabi-solitude-parts-2-and-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/yahia-labibabi-solitude-parts-2-and-3.jpg 1207w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/yahia-labibabi-solitude-parts-2-and-3-600x470.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/yahia-labibabi-solitude-parts-2-and-3-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/yahia-labibabi-solitude-parts-2-and-3-1024x803.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/yahia-labibabi-solitude-parts-2-and-3-768x602.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Desert is a cemetery <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">picking its teeth with<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">bones littered with brittle stones<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">marked by a grave air. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Mourning its myriad souls <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">it murmurs threnodies, while<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">winds scatter desert lament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Desert, Revisited<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">under a whirling skirt of sky<br \/>\nstreaming light and stars<br \/>\ngroping for that tremendous hem<br \/>\ngingerly over quicksand<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">as though steadied<br \/>\nbeneath some tongue and dissolving<br \/>\nnot the absence of sound<br \/>\nbut the presence of silence<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">or, as if transfixed<br \/>\nby a gaze, stern-serene<br \/>\nsurveying a dream<br \/>\nforeign-familiar<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">incorruptible starting point<br \/>\ninviolable horizon<br \/>\nwhere eye and mind are free<br \/>\nto meditate perfection<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">there, begin to uncover<br \/>\nburied in dust and disinterest<br \/>\nthe immutable letter<br \/>\n(first of the alphabet) <em>Alif <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">under the ever-watchful eye:<br \/>\nfearsome sun, forgiving moon<br \/>\nbless the magnificent hand<br \/>\nall else is blasphemy, a lie<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">experience quietude<br \/>\nthe maturity of ecstasy<br \/>\nlonging to utter<br \/>\nthe unutterable Name<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">only striving supreme or pure<br \/>\ncan ever hope to endure<br \/>\nthe absolute face<br \/>\nthe awesome embrace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he lived in Cairo, poet Yahia Lababidi would periodically head to the desert; 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