Homs-Sana
In celebration of the glorious October feasts, the Cultural Center in Homs, in cooperation with the Doha Poets Forum, held a poetry festival with the participation of a group of vertical poem poets who sang the epic and corrective Tishreen heroics and exploits.
The festival - the first in Homs for the Doha of Poets - director of the Homs Literary Forum, poet Ibrahim Al-Hashem, began with a bouquet of sentimental and patriotic poems.
The poet Noura Al-Younes participated in a patriotic poem in which she spread her love for the city of Jasmine, and with his enthusiastic poetic tone, Bayaraq Al-Ezza was lit up in the poem of the poet Azzam Issa, flirting with Tishreen.
She praised the poet Hana Yazbek by giving the two October sacrifice and victory in her poem “The Saffron Processions”, and with lyrical poems rhymed with the love of the homeland, the poet Issa Issa participated, and it came with the titles “Not with love we shorten admonition” and “The Light of Beauty”.
Poet Talal Khader also had a distinguished participation with short poems adorned with sensual images, and bearing the titles “Fire resembles a dance” and “Expatriation.”
With the radiance of victory, the poet Suleiman Shaheen sang in his poem, addressing Tishreen, and with great feelings of love for Damascus, the poet Maha Sobh participated in a patriotic poem, while the poet Salwa Al-Ghanim participated in a flirtatious poem entitled “Ya Azli”.
The festival was concluded by the director of the Doha Poets Forum, the Iraqi poet Abdul Karim al-Lami, with two patriotic poems.
Regarding the forum and the purpose of its establishment, al-Lami explained in an interview with SANA that the forum, which was launched three years ago, and includes one thousand and eight hundred poets, most of whom are from Syria, aims to build a base for literature and improve poetry, which has been waning lately by reviving the vertical poem exclusively because it is the original Arabic poetry and its actual document.
Al-Moltaqa Foundation writer Omaima Esber pointed out that the Doha Poets issued its first collection of poems under the supervision of the poet al-Lami, which includes seventy-seven vertical poems by the most important Syrian poets, to be issued later on other collections documenting these poems for future generations.
Hanan Sweid
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