“My ash-Sham” | by Sofia Kioroglou

Thank you for publishing one of my favorite poems! Blessings to all of you from across the seas!

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Damascus, the city of Jasmine, my ash-Sham

now in throbbing pain, with intra-ocular pressure,

higher than normal, the omen is permanent vision loss

of a brighter future, our people are blind

Damascus, my Madīnat al-Yāsmīn

traumatized, yet squinting at a sliver of light

peeking through the door, a wished-for chimera

if wishes were horses, the future would be ours to create

Damascus, my homeland, the Barada river

a throbbing jugular, still alive

a knive in the heart, hot burning pain

peace floating driftwood on gory water

Sofia Kioroglou is a Greek poet, writer and perennial traveller to the Holy Land and Egypt. Her recent entry to the Festival for Poetry was singled out at the Best of February and her poems have been selected in the Most Commented Category of Pengician. Her poems can be found online and in print in Lunaris Review, In Between Hangovers, Galleon Literary Journal, Pengician, Galway Review…

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