It’s how a poem can share a truckload of emotions in just a few words. It’s how this powerful and unique outlet has been used as an escape and a breath of fresh air from time immemorial.

Bilal Al Masri, one of Lebanese most remarkable poet takes us on his own journey of short but powerful poetry with his three poems below.

Here’s to telling our own stories, the good, bad and the ugly.
Here’s to every experience that makes us who we are.
Here to Bilal’s three poems below:

A story
Like smoke dispersing
words distance themselves
as you and I return to being strangers –
two characters lost in a long story,
an endless one –
and the sad author,
uncertain of the way
that he should take.

Tears

Dogs run after the Moon.
Spinster cats miaow.
In the dead of night
poor mice hide
in the ear of an old woman
combing her grey hair
that falls like snowflakes
and melts like tears,
while there are people
wandering along the paths
crushing each other’s hearts.

Absence
As meetings with you became rare
I folded myself between the pages of a book
I went on my way,
gone and left the place

having forgotten I was sick –
your absence pains me –
and I had forgotten
where I left the book.