more than one hundred fifty thousand people get together each year at the international poetry festival of men to. demonstrate to the entire world that in a country so drained by war. shows to humanity that the whole world's problems are. that suffering is every war but it also lives in the world. without pay since i live in such a big country. that everything is far. less. education. food. yes health now the house in. my country still beat the new justice doesn't extend to all. day i'm actually believe there is abuse of power and greed when that troll resources it was because we are the children of a planet from a planet that we're depleting with wars and everything. forestry doesn't unseat governments but it does open consciences and hearts it goes like this. or take. in more coal. we must stand up as boys and begin to say that we should let companies to the sectors that manufacture with holes of most structure the time has come for us to remember our values to put right all our wrongs to celebrate our humanity and truly live the belief that each of us is the same person as all of us.

wanted to read a poem that was sent by the poet that i invited to the recent san francisco international poetry festival from iraq i've been in touch with for more than a year and a half. after the united states would not give him his visa, i asked him -- i told him about mutanabbi street and he wrote a poem and he wrote it in english, though he writes in, of course, in arabic. but this one he wrote in english. so i'll read it. one figure in the poem you should know, humbaba, which is an ogre, a monster of immemorial age. that was a special big garden, a forest, where all types of trees and flowers grew. the trees bending down gently flinging branches. our orchard grew like a crown on the sun's eyebrow. where did humbaba come from? his mother was just a cave, his father unknown. who made him a friend pretending guardian of the orchard. did those nice shrubs need fear to go begging for a garden and have humbaba in his treachery ilk. those plants and flowers were like books everyone could read, not cut and throw away. their different fantastic colors had formed our blood so our veins ran smoothly, our 7 w

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