The Bloody Jasmine: Labor and Pulse

About this book

Between the scent of jasmine and the sound of bullets, between the earth's steadiness and the soul's tremors, this text is born as a stifled scream in a long night. "The Bloody Jasmine" is no mere poetry collection, but the "labor and pulse" of a human journey standing on pain's edges and hope's thresholds. Here geographies intermingle to make Algeria and Palestine one wound bleeding poetry; where the poet travels with his words from the land of martyrs to steadfast Gaza, casting from shrapnel wounded letters and from blood musk wafting through paper veins. The lines begin from estrangement's darkness and days' treachery stealing the rose's scent, progressing through worlds of emotional mystery touching love's disappointments and the road's oppression. Then they transform into a stand of pride and defiance, supplicating Jerusalem and calling for freedom, in a unique blend joining an "Algerian" belonging and a "Palestinian" cause. It is a book reading orphans' pain, addressing the olive's silence, and asking in a bruised child's tongue: "When will the war end and the fire disappear?" In this work the ink flows like a torrent scattering.