Stubborn in Love: Poems

By Amr Muneer Dahab

Stubborn in Love

I constantly mention that I resigned from the kingdom of poetry, but I am definitely still bound in the castle of love in all its forms. The forms of love are variable, unlike what the lovers might admit, and the two most prominent forms of love are intense eagerness and deep intimacy.
It is my great luck that I did not abandon one of these two forms throughout my relationship with my beloved, to whom I have picked every single piece of this bouquet of poems.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9781665546683

Amr Muneer Dahab

www.nasdahab.com [e-mail] Amr Muneer Dahab is a Sudanese born writer, poet, essayist, literary critic and electrical engineer. He has an experience of over twenty years as a columnist in opinion journalism and is widely acknowledged for his critical essays tackling controversial cultural, literary, intellectual, and political issues worldwide, and in the Arab world specifically. His over twenty years’ experience as a columnist in opinion journalism, in addition to his academic engineering degree and relevant practical career, allowed his words to be architected in a skillfully depict reality with honesty, objectivity, and creativity. Amr is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in the United States of America. He has more than twenty five books published in Arabic, and his book “Damn the Novel” had been translated into English and published in 2018. Amr wrote in English “Facing Troublemakers”, “You Are Always Good to Go”, “Life Painkillers”, “Cuisine”, “Reading”, “Pocket”, “Inspire”, and “Criticizing”; they were published in 2020 and 2021. Amr’s collection of poems “Stubborn in Love” has been translated into English and published in 2021.

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CONTENTS

Preface

A Note On The English Translation

Life In Your Eyes

Holding My Breath!

At Your Company

Alive Only For You

Yearning For Serenity

Favor

Pardon

Contented

Five Years

Smitten

Why Stay?

Elusive

Body And Soul

Morning

Mere Ruins

They All Witnessed

My Beloved

Desertion

Divulgence

Except You!

I Begged Your Pardon

Submission

No Way!

From Your Fountain

How Long Till Then?

O Days Of Connection

Am I Worthy Of A Plea?

Departure

Alone

Fleeing To You

First Sight

Tough Desertion

Heart And Night

O Sweetheart

Love Alive

Reunion

This Unique Damsel

Any Talebearers?

Pour It

Retreating

Not Lost

You Dictated That

Before Going Afar

Precious Names

Why Do I Need To Care About Other Damsels?

What Did You Do?

In Love

Some Blame

I Keep My Promise

Love And Saunter

To whom my words whisper blessings of love,

she who is watching me from her veranda above.

PREFACE

I constantly mention that I resigned from the kingdom of poetry, but I am definitely still bound in the castle of love in all its forms. The forms of love are variable, unlike what the lovers might admit, and the two most prominent forms of love are intense eagerness and deep intimacy.

It is my great luck that I did not abandon one of these two forms throughout my relationship with my beloved, to whom I have picked every single piece of this bouquet of poems.

Amr

April 2020

A NOTE ON THE ENGLISH

TRANSLATION

Translating a work you’ve written is as if you’re writing it twice. That is why I entrusted Youssef Elharrak with the translation of this collection of my poems. This is, of course, in addition to the fact that Youssef is a skilled translator. However, I was pleased to provide feedback on Elharrak’s translations to ensure that they retained, as much as possible, the poems’ original meanings.

It was difficult to render the Arabic text into English while clinging to the literal version of every line of the poems, and even of every