A swarm of violins..a collection of poetry belonging to the prose poem by Aws Asaad

Damascus-SANA

Music is not the missing element in the prose text, as long as the group Swarm Kamanjat by the poet Aws Ahmed Asaad refers us to a special kind of whispering inner music and to an atmosphere of solo playing on word strings.

The poet Asaad's inner fascination with this type of music pushed him to the title that suggests those musical meanings, in addition to the cover expressive of the content by the artist Raed Khalil, in which a person striving hard carries a huge swoosh key that emits music, butterflies and flowers.

Pain is the most prominent feature of the group, and perhaps its source is the years of suffering that our people lived through from the consequences of the terrorist war on our country. It depicts this pain laden with sadness and suffering that the Syrian person touches wherever he goes, and it replaces the suspicions required by the conspiracy against our country..

“Wherever you turn your face in this world

You are suspected, Syrian

Be ready to admit what you never did.”

The repercussions of the war on the poet also appear more in the poem “The Sore of Desolation,” which simulates the suffering of the Syrians, the sacrifices of the martyrs, the psychological effects of the war on children, and its economic, social and psychological consequences, where he says:

“Martyrs die more when the anemones wither in the vase of memory.”

Asaad believes that the imagination always needs to be sharpened in order to be prepared for creativity. The poet who enriches his culture with reading and knowledge will always repeat himself, saying:

“Because the wool of the language is separated from the body of the letter

And to plow the soil of clarity with a proper metaphor.”

In his new collection, Asaad not only presents our major issues, but also presents his conception of the poem as it should be, as he sees poetry as:

To plow the language with the paw of a butterfly or the beak of a bird

Then the body is covered with surprising feathers.”

The poet divided the collection into 11 texts of varying lengths, bearing national, emotional, social and human concerns, and they are located in 193 pages of medium volume.

It is noteworthy that the poet Asaad was born in Qamishli, a member of the Arab Writers Union, the Poetry Association, and he has published a number of collections, including “The Speech” and “Sonata Sweetness with a Taste of Chestnut.”

Bilal Ahmad