Victoria Adukwei Bulley & André Naffis-Sahely: Quiet/High Desert
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The Wandering King Without a Kingdom
Imral cais is one of the great preislamic poets. But he's mostly known for how he died, rather than his poetry. He fell in love with the byzantian emperor's daughter and was given a beautiful pupino cloak as a parting gift. Later on, so the legend goes, when he was half way to going back home to his own kingdom, he put the cloak on, it was poisoned. And so then he died. I dedicated the poem to her. Her name is alia ali. She onlything shold probal by mentioned before, this is a a reference s one of my favourite arabic poets.
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