I want you to be well so I can cross the street safely

With honest poetry, the horizons of a poem with a living melody and an awareness of language and rhythm are opened together. Dr. Hatem Al-Sakr, with this collection, Sadiq Mejbil presents a coherent collection. Language, preoccupations and tone, which confirm the seriousness of the poetic work. Some metered texts give diversity not only in rhythm but also in the nature of poetic expression. Abdel Zahra Zaki comes "The Butterfly Hitting Its Sleeping Glass." Beauty comes as a "holiday surprise," that is, from areas of astonishment, and from where poetry always comes... Issa Makhlouf has a restoration of the innocence of the word and a restoration of the meaning that is despised, crushed, and fragmented in most of what we read by modern writers today. With texts like these, it is possible to restore confidence in writing and its goals and to ensure that the chaos that afflicts it, and poetry in particular, cannot be the inevitable outcome and is not the reference that must be accepted, the alternative reference to true writing emerging from pain and true passion for it. Likewise, sincere preoccupation, to be a conscious choice and stance, and not a diversion or pursuit for the purposes of fame or anything that falls outside the tasks and sorrows of real writing. I also noticed an awareness of the forms of writing, as well as the ability, whether in meter or prose, and the ability to explain it. Bassem Al-Merhebi brings to Sadiq Mjebel''s poetry the harmony - which has become rare - between writing and internal experience. There is no artificiality or falsehood here. Rather, it is the insight of a self burdened by the world, whose "inner peace" comes from the peace of the other/the world. The fountain of fear nourishes the poetic voice to illuminate the texts and pull them between the string of suffering and the bow of innocence. Sadiq quietly advances to the poetic scene. He is the calmness of gentle poetry in a world of cruelty and noise. Ali Mahmoud Khudair