A Different Place » Taliban Poetry http://www.alexstrick.com Kandahar & London Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:20:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 From ‘Ghazal’ by Shin Gul Aajiz http://www.alexstrick.com/2010/05/from-ghazal-by-shin-gul-aajiz/ http://www.alexstrick.com/2010/05/from-ghazal-by-shin-gul-aajiz/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 06:05:16 +0000 Alex Strick van Linschoten http://www.alexstrick.com/2010/05/from-ghazal-by-shin-gul-aajiz/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> These lines from a poem written by Shin Gul Aajiz and published on the Taliban’s website sometime in late 2007:

The river of your love took me, I am going

If I am a drop, you are the sun of beauty

I am a garden of flowers because of your love’s spring

It’s one of the poems that Felix and I are editing together for a collection to be published by Hurst Books in early 2011. Lots of different styles, forms and subject matter. The one above is about yearning for his ‘beloved’. Many are political (motivational anthems angry with the ‘kuffar’) but these by no means dominate the collection we’ve kept since 2006.

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