The poet Abdul Karim Shaaban goes to where his village has disappeared, leaving immortal poems

Damascus-SANA

The Dam Lake took half the area of ​​Qaybur, the village of the late poet Abdul Karim Shaaban, and turned it into poems characterized by tears that carried new horizons in poetry that resemble only the poet who left us a few days ago to where his village located in the countryside of Latakia disappeared, so that his poems remain immortal in the memory of poetry and poets.

The poet presented to Doha Poetry 12 collections since 1992, including the horses of the wind, the tents of light, and no hand in my hand. In order for the wind to carry its weight, he considered all that he presented poetry suitable for his time, but his poems that he wrote in recent years are the ones that resemble him more without giving up any poem because their total is equal A poet named Abdul Karim Shaaban.

Shaaban, whose poetic state formed the first building block of his poetry, emanating from the vocabulary of rural nature, from valleys, springs, and a virgin spring, incites the creative energy of the creator, and this does not dispense with the vocabulary of the city of platforms, relationships, and spaces that are necessary for the poet to be present literary, indicating that the impact left by the absence of his village and his childhood playgrounds Underwater may turn into a negative obsession, try to get rid of it by looking at the beautiful image created by the presence of the dam and the lake.

Poet Tawfiq Ahmed, Vice-President of the Arab Writers Union, explained that he knew the late 35 years ago, and at that time he was a capable poet who was able to achieve a presence in the general Syrian poetic scene.

Ahmed pointed out that it is from the nature of his poetry that it rises to all tastes to form a wide audience around admiration for his poetic career, in addition to the high moral path that distinguished him, as creativity cannot be separated from morals.

The poet Badi’ Soqour explained that the late was a gentle, talented poet who had pure kindness, and that his poetic images were a nice and innovative aesthetic that tended to modernity even in his vertical poetry, pointing out that he is an example of kindness and a rural peasant who adheres to his land and its vocabulary. He did not take his right of fame, because fame may be taken by those who do not deserve it, but the one who remains in the end is the true poet.

The poet Hassan Mahrez said, “The late poet was born with nature and scooped from the sea, and he used to take from the old and renew it. He is a creative romantic, and he has the imprints of renewal and wonderful, funny images. He left a mark in the memory of poets and readers, leaving a feeling of pain and sadness for everyone who knew him.” He did not give life more than it deserves, suggesting that he have poems in the educational curricula due to the importance of his poetry and the recognition of its value, especially since he did not get the fame he deserves in his life.

Bilal Ahmad