Damascus-SANA
Fatherhood is a message as poetry is a message, and the father, the poet Hassan Youssef, in his poetry collection, Insira Qalb, performs the two messages together as a father and a poet.
The insight of the heart is the poet's eyes for his four daughters who lost their sight. He was the kind father, the educator, the hand and the way to the sweets of his liver.
The poet Youssef begins his collection with a poem bearing the title of the collection, speaking through it on the tongue of his daughter, who lost her sight, but found solace in that in the spiritual aspect and addressing the Creator, saying:
Lord, I have worn out my eyes
Awad Fouadi is a paradise that shelters me
You are the one who gave the heart insight
The light of insight is piercing and entertaining.
He also dedicates his second poem in the collection to his daughter Dima, whose birth he considered a new one for him because of her intelligence and wit. He says:
Her birthday has become a calendar for me
I was born on a birthday
I quench my ribs from the tears of her eyes
Her tears became her Tasnim.
And his other daughter, Rahaf, who was attached to her since her birth, and spring blossomed in the universe, and life turned into love and beauty. He wrote about her saying:
From the day she was born, my heart has longed for her
And the full moon I called him Rahaf for her sake
Spring is blooming with joyful cosmos
From the hour I was born, the flower of the world has fallen in love.
Despite the burdens of his humanitarian mission, the poet does not forget his homeland, which has suffered many afflictions in this war. He says in a poem entitled “Lie to the Night”:
They tell every angle
A homeland wrestling with the severity of illness
The volcanoes of hostility revolted against him
And everyone prays lava crater.
About forty poems tell of the suffering of the poet Hassan Youssef in his home, his daughters, and his homeland, his defiance of all circumstances, and his great belief in removing the grief from this country through 117 pages of medium pieces issued by Baal House in Damascus.
Bilal Ahmad