Immortality with a Kiss on the Neck

By Kamal Abdulhamid

This book of poetry presents deep questions about the meaning of existence vs. nothingness, love vs. loss, and waiting vs. human uncertainty and confusion. It is a different book, it can be said that this is the poetic Noahs Ark, constructed by the poet with his soul, heart and questions in the face of the flood of human experiences and pains.
In these poetic selections, the poet cannot nullify the power of death, neither physically nor spiritually, but he tries to understand what it means for a man to face, death, losses and disappointment, since his birth. He tries to understand the game of fate and its great deception.
It is a book for souls haunted by existential confusion anywhere. Nothingness is fully embodied in these poems, which not only provides readers with the pleasure of cursory reading, but also takes them to their truthhuman beings, born to ask about the light that never comes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Feb 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781490770796

Kamal Abdulhamid

Kamal Abdulhamid is an Egyptian poet, works as a journalist, and lives in Dubai, UAE for 19 years. He is one of the renowned modernistic poets in Egypt and the Arab world since the 1980s. He has published five books of poetry, both in Cairo and Beirut, through the largest Arab publishing houses. His poetic experience has a distinctive character, and in all his poems, the woman has a strong role, either as a source of joy, or as a reason for regret in the face of the mystery and fluctuations of the unforeseen.

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Contents

In the Beginning, I Say, I love you

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A Kindhearted Adulteress Sleeping with Her Nightmares

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The Barman's Confessions

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Imperfect Perfection

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Dead, Slowly Pondering upon the Catastrophe

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Your Name Has What Resembles Haiku

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What I Found to Be Imperfect As I Was Pursuing My Perfection

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You Come with a Cruelty That I Do Not Deserve

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They Did Not Stand for Long Before Your Soul

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The Serpent's Desire

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The Fullness of Hell

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To nothingness

and nothing else

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.

---The Second Letter of Saint Paul

to the Corinthians 2:4

In the Beginning, I Say,

I love you

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In the beginning, I say I love you, and I hate my soul, hiding in the shadows like a child feeling guilty, my soul that have implicated me in love, in the fist of silk and caltrops. My soul that cries shamelessly before a cold-blooded emotion waving its stick.

I love you, and I enthusiastically watch the universal theater, I do not sympathize with the villains, unlike you, after each Arabic movie. The villains that hate the protagonists and plot conspiracies in the middle of the story.

What do I do now with all that evil around us? I must be good at hating in order to embody the content of the dramatic complication. It does not suit the likes of me to talk about tolerance, when they are surrounded by disappointment.

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I fail to deeply hate those with secondary and primary roles, and to pay attention when the camera moves (pan left) because the director usually gives orders to show the heart so that the spectator knows how much time is left before I fall like a loser.

Then I will die in a close-up scene

My face will fill the screen

Looking at the depth of the frame and muttering a single word.

People will guess my last words

And curse open endings

It is pointless for you to not know that you are my last words

It is pointless for you to be far away

When the director claps for the final scene

But I will love you even after the movie ends

I will love you freely from the requirements of