Darwish Poems _verified_ -

| Poem | Key Idea | |------|-----------| | (1964) | Early defiant poem: “Record! / I am an Arab / And my identity card number is fifty thousand.” | | “We Travel Like Other People” | Exile as normalcy: “We travel like other people, but we return to nothing.” | | “I Come From There” | A manifesto of origin and memory. | | “The Hoopoe” | Late poem—dialogues with a bird, myth, and mortality. | | “The Earth Is Closing on Us” | Claustrophobia of occupation: “We pass through the same prison.” |

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