Jouw gedicht


Als onderdeel van Symphony Arabica heeft componist Merlijn Twaalfhoven een oproep verspreid voor een poëtische bijdrage aan Symphony Arabica.
Er kwamen 33 inzendingen uit Nederland en Palestina.
De winnaar is Mirma Makhlouf, een jonge singer/songwriter uit Nederland. Haar gedicht zal verwerkt worden in de Symphony en door haar worden voorgedragen.


 

Voorafgaand aan de concerten hebben verschillende mensen hun gedicht ingestuurd met behulp van de volgende opzet:

 

Als ik om me heen kijk,

Dan zie ik.....(korte regel)

...................(korte regel)

.....................................(lange regel)

 

Als ik mijn ogen sluit,

Dan zie ik.....(korte regel)

....................(korte regel)

.....................................(lange regel)

 

 

Ondanks dat het de concerten inmiddels allemaal voltooid zijn kunt u nog steeds stemmen op de onderstaande gedichten.

Danial Vosgueritchian
3 vote(s)
When I look around, I see

Loneliness

I am helpless

I can't free myself from that pain

 

When I close my eyes, I see

That darkness

Hurts me

Please take my hand! Save me

Jala Andoni
2 vote(s)
When I look around, I see

Barriers and walls

Blocking my way

I hope that they will be thrown away

 

When I close my eyes, I see

Green glass

And flowers

Paving my way for righteousness

When I look around, I see

only the wall

where is peace

This won't help us living in peace

 

When I close my eyes, I see

The wall is destroyed

Peace prevailed

And all people live together in peace

Claude Qumseyah
1 vote(s)
When I look around, I see

A non-stop suffering

A heart bleeding

I need peace and reconciliation

 

When I close my eyes, I see

Blood everywhere

Children no where

Hatred can never be the way

Judith Abu Akleh
1 vote(s)
When I look around, I see

Frustration and

Blood everywhere

Sadness, screaming and tears

 

When I close my eyes, I see

Hope for future

Need for prayer

And a step for just peace

Claire Anustas
1 vote(s)
When I look around, I see

Tears of children

a non-stop war

Enough, we want to change

 

When I close my eyes, I see

Nightmares

Every night

I am scared about my family

1 vote(s)
When I look around, I see

People sick

Without care

Calling for someone to dare

 

When I close my eyes, I see

Life is short

It is like a dream

And it will go and nothing stay

Maysara Al Madbouh
1 vote(s)
When I look around, I see

Aliens here

Harassing me

Without conscious or  mercy

 

When I close my eyes, I see

No more siege

Freedom back

And all my children are back

1 vote(s)
When I look around, I see

people sweating

from cultivating

their land and even enjoying

 

when I close my eyes, I see

a better life

people will survive

and no more people shall die

1 vote(s)
When I look around, I see

People injured

Children die

From the Holocaust against Gaza

 

When I close my eyes, I see

My children

Unable to play

The wall has stolen their playing ground
Jamila Danoun
1 vote(s)
When I look around, I see

Darkness not light

Hopelessness not bright

it is hard to see the people can't fight

 

when I close my eyes, I see

need for freedom

hope for happiness

I want us all to be together

Silvana Giacaman
3 vote(s)
When I look around, I see

A small boy

Making a hole

In the wall to give freedom for all

 

When I close my eyes, I see

A flame of love

That will never blame

A bright future will be our aim

1 vote(s)
When I look around, I see

a yard full of

Flowers and bird

Flying and singing for freedom

 

When I close my eyes, I see

I see the power

Of a prayer

To help me live my life

1 vote(s)
When I look around, I see

My friends

That I love

And I can't live without them

 

When I close my eyes, I see

Hope for

a future

that will help us steadfast

1 vote(s)
When I look around, I see

All the people

Depressed but

For help they ask God

 

When I close my eyes, I see

Life backward

And remember

All the good times I have lived
1 vote(s)
When I look around, I see

Hurt and sadness

Yet there is Sumud

Because there is eagerness for freedom

 

When I close my eyes, I see

People experiencing

This frustration

But they can't understand it

Eline Kreitim
1 vote(s)
When I look around, I see

The sunrise

The flowers

And how beautiful life can be

 

When I close my eyes, I see

My son happy

My family is safe

And people are free from this wall

Laureen Abu Jaber
2 vote(s)
When I look around me

I see equal humans

With Differences

Some are sad, hungry but content and some are happy, rich but complaining

 

When I close my eyes

I feel I want to sleep

And keep sleeping

Because i feel peaceful

Salim Hadweh
1 vote(s)
When I look around me

I see beautiful places

Holy places

But the people aren’t holy anymore

 

When I close my eyes

I see  a better world

For a better life

Where people sing for justice

Bishara Hodali
1 vote(s)

When I look around me

I see war

That never ends

People have faith to be in safe

 

When I close my eyes

I see angels

singing and praising

making our dreams come true

Oriana
1 vote(s)
When I look around me

I see love disappearing

Crashing

Without any attention of the angels

 

When I close my eyes

I see the sun shining

Great world

Very beautiful without betraying or cheating full of love and really safe

1 vote(s)
When I look around me

I see violence

Every where shouting  

But the spirit of Sumud steadfastness we have hope

 

When I close my eyes

I see darkness

I feel confused

Why all the children at the world is free but I am not
Milad Qumsieh
1 vote(s)
When I look around me

I see people occupying

Building walls in between

Discrimination, separation and occupation

 

When I close my eyes

I see my hero

riding on a white horse

he want to take me to a green land where no pain, fear and cry

Peter Anustas
1 vote(s)
When I look around me

I see my self

In siege and  prison

Surrounded with ugly image of  apartheid wall

 

When I close my eyes

I see night mares

Escalations and clashes

The wall will fall today or tomorrow or in the future

Mouhammad Sha’lan
1 vote(s)
 

When I look around me,

I see the situation in Palestine

New Holocaust

History repeats it’s self

 

When I close my eyes,

I see a new future

Hopes, dreams and new realities

Life is a chance and we need to value it

1 vote(s)
When I look around me,

I see the nature awaking people dying

The world is doing nothing

I see terrorist everywhere and dead people alive

 

When I close my eyes, I see

All our dreams come true so nice

We all live happy with love like paradise

Why all the children in the world is free but I am not

Nynke Schapp
1 vote(s)
When I look around me,

I see confused people

Some people did the same

As what they used to blame

 

When I close my eyes,

I see people can blame

The real inhuman

Because their nation doesn’t do the same
Jack Abudinen
When I look around me

I see my heart

It is alive

Flying in the sky but I realize that its going to die

 

When I close my eyes

I see lies

It is lying on the ground

I am trying to hear what it says but can’t hear a sound

Milad Vosgueritchian
2 vote(s)
When I look around me,

I see painful smiling

Warm tears saying freedom

I touched the spirit of steadfastness

 

When I close my eyes, I see

Strange ugly people

Unmerciful, unhappy and unsafe places

I look for the bright sides; I look for my savior to feel secure

Per Norway
1 vote(s)
When I look around me,

I see a wall

Ugly friend

I hop and pray that one day will fall

 

When I close my eyes

I see my children and grandchildren

They are so far away

I hope to live to see them and hear what they say

Samer Hilal
1 vote(s)
When I look around me,

I see devils

The world be nothing

We are those devils, the world is over

 

When I close my eyes

I see a light

This light is freedom

This world will change to a new one

Tamamr Musa
3 vote(s)

When i look around,

I see a long tunnel

I see light at the end

I would give you my world if only you would set the truth

 

When I close my eyes, I see

Love

Dreams

The world one day knows the meaning of love