A Bird from the Battlefront: Reflections from War-Torn Syria

By Mohammed Y. Burhan

This evening,
No one looks like me.
I put my heart into the fridge,
My eyes into the shoe closet.
I left my fingers yonder on the door handle.
This evening
No one looks like me
I set on the edge of my silence
Chew what is left of the news
Ask the lady announcer to become sexier
When numbering today’s victims;
Her excitement is a surplus femininity
Messing with the awe of death.
This evening,
No one looks like me.
And the knife slitting my neck from behind
Feels as soft as the collar of my shirt.
One
Single
Unique
Solo
I am this evening
And no one looks like me
Except
The twenty-three million Syrians
Who write this same poem
Even now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Mar 3, 2023
• ISBN: 9798886935875

Mohammed Y. Burhan

Novelist, poet, and journalist born in Syria. He has published six books in Arabic: Historical Drama: An Academic Study in TV Production Incomplete Texts: Poetry and Short Stories. Priest of Sin: Historical Novel Heart’s Healer: Historical Novel Taste of lightness: Poetry and Short Stories House of Hatred: Historical Novel His novel House of Hatred has been translated into Mandarin and published in China. His works were subject to academic thesis in Middle Eastern universities. And many literary studies and reviews about his work were published in several Arabic newspapers.

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About the Author

Novelist, poet, and journalist born in Syria. He has published six books in Arabic:

Historical Drama: An Academic Study in TV Production

Incomplete Texts: Poetry and Short Stories.

Priest of Sin: Historical Novel

Heart’s Healer: Historical Novel

Taste of lightness: Poetry and Short Stories

House of Hatred: Historical Novel

His novel House of Hatred has been translated into Mandarin and published in China.

His works were subject to academic thesis in Middle Eastern universities. And many literary studies and reviews about his work were published in several Arabic newspapers.

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Burhan, Mohammed Y.

A Bird from the Battlefront

ISBN 9798886935851 (Paperback)

ISBN 9798886935875 (ePub e-book)

ISBN 9798886935868 (Audiobook)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022923949

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In such an interminable massacre

Called life

You can only write

Write, and write

To survive!

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This morning, I committed the ultimate joy.

With a lost bird seeking refuge