October, love, and songs

Publisher: Arab Publishing Foundation Author: Maha Al-Otaibi Language: Arabic Pages: 112 Synopsis: If between October and October there is a second summer, then between love and abandonment there is a second torment. This is what the poetess Dr. Maha Al-Otaibi's poems in her poetic work "October, Love, and Songs" suggest. With this, poetess Al-Otaibi has entered poetry through the gateway of confession, aiming to establish a poetic scene where the text resonates with meaning and voice. The words define the idea and restrict it with letters, while confession launches and opens the horizon of reading to various meanings that can only be realized through awareness of the value of life itself and living it as well. In the poem titled "Supplication of Questions," poetess Al-Otaibi says: "Tell me, Yezbak, what was the sin... and the promise has become, through long abandonment, deprivation... and yesterday is despair, and there is no news in today... scattering silence at the thresholds of our meeting... With tears, flocks of hope have dawned... kneeling at its door marked for our meeting... between a companion trembling with love... holding his green dreams, intoxicated...". Through this high level of writing, the poetess's texts are filled with love, longing, yearning, and overflowing emotions. She writes about moments that can be lived, about love, just as she writes about moments of separation. In this way, writing itself becomes a kind of absence and waiting; and for meanings to remain as questions of the soul, watching for the meeting. The book includes poems in modern Arabic poetry under the following titles: "Passion," "October, Love, and Songs," "I Sing in the Realm of Passion," "Shyness Has Touched Me," "Thirst of the Figures," "Two Wakeings," "Dream of Love," "Songs in the Night's Wind"... and other titles.