Palestinian poetry held in the archive, in Arabic and English, with the poet, the year and the source of each text.https://falasteen.ai/enFree to read, quote and cite with attribution to FALASTEEN.AI.https://falasteen.ai/poems/hamza/https://falasteen.ai/poems/hamza/A man from Touqan's own town, ordinary as bread, tells her in the years after 1967 to be patient and not to weaken — the land, he says, will remain alive and will not die.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:09:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/revenge/https://falasteen.ai/poems/revenge/A poem that spends its whole length imagining a duel with the man who killed the poet's father — and then dismantles the duel, one relative at a time, until nothing is left to kill.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:09:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/the-martyr/https://falasteen.ai/poems/the-martyr/Written by a schoolteacher in his twenties who was killed in battle eleven years later — the poem that earned Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud the name 'the martyr poet.'Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:09:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/travel-tickets/https://falasteen.ai/poems/travel-tickets/A short poem addressed to the man who will kill him: search my pockets, you will find tickets — to peace, to the fields and the rain, to the conscience of humankind. Don't waste them.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:09:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/without-a-passport/https://falasteen.ai/poems/without-a-passport/Born without a passport, the poet watches his country turn into prisons — and answers by planting a country, a sun, and wheat inside every house.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:09:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/i-grant-you-refuge/https://falasteen.ai/poems/i-grant-you-refuge/One of Hiba Abu Nada's final poems, written on 10 October 2023: an invocation that tries to shelter children, parents, streets, houses, and oranges inside language.Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/if-i-must-die/https://falasteen.ai/poems/if-i-must-die/Written in 2011 and shared again weeks before an Israeli airstrike killed him in December 2023, Alareer's final poem became a global testament — a request to be remembered as a story, and a kite, bringing hope.Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/on-a-starless-night/https://falasteen.ai/poems/on-a-starless-night/A bombing night in Gaza: the neighbor's house lies 'like an old carpet on the floor of the earth' — and the poem becomes the only place the small facts of a destroyed household survive.Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/things-you-may-find-hidden-in-my-ear/https://falasteen.ai/poems/things-you-may-find-hidden-in-my-ear/Addressing the surgeon who opens his ear, Abu Toha catalogs what is stored inside — his mother's voice, songs, and the sounds of drones and bombs — memory as an archive that must be put back in order.Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/al-youm/https://falasteen.ai/poems/al-youm/A search for origins along an American river and a mother's breath — Abraham rewrites the pastoral as a Palestinian form, where to arrive at a landscape is to have a past to run from.Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/spoiler/https://falasteen.ai/poems/spoiler/A poem that begins with a diagnosis of fear and ends as an instruction for living: whatever you build will be ruined, so make it beautiful.Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/morning-song/https://falasteen.ai/poems/morning-song/Written for Janna Jihad, the child who began documenting occupation with her mother's phone at age seven: the 'tiny journalist' sees everything — and 'she's bigger than you are.'Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/resist-my-people/https://falasteen.ai/poems/resist-my-people/The poem that put a poet on trial: posted online in October 2015, it led to Tatour's arrest, conviction, and imprisonment — before an Israeli court ruled on appeal that the poem was not a crime.Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/i-cant-attend/https://falasteen.ai/poems/i-cant-attend/The exile's litany of excuses: a Palestinian poet safe in Stockholm explains — with black humor and survivor's guilt — why the road between his poem and Damascus is cut off.Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/running-orders/https://falasteen.ai/poems/running-orders/Written during Israel's 2014 assault on Gaza, Tuffaha's poem answers the phone call no one should receive — the one that says your house is next — and asks what courtesy means in a prison by the sea.Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/sleeping-in-gaza/https://falasteen.ai/poems/sleeping-in-gaza/Darwish addresses the Portuguese fado and proposes to sleep the way people sleep when the shells are falling — a poem about exhaustion rather than defiance.Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/my-mother/https://falasteen.ai/poems/my-mother/A miniature portrait of a mother's face, where every line holds a book, a hope, a love — Alareer's tender counterpoint to the poetry of siege.Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/we-teach-life/https://falasteen.ai/poems/we-teach-life/Ziadah's answer to a journalist who asked if Palestinians would 'just stop teaching their children to hate' — a spoken-word poem that became one of the most shared performances of Palestinian poetry ever recorded.Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/break-cluster/https://falasteen.ai/poems/break-cluster/From breaking poems — Hammad's hip-hop-fused book of war, women, and survival — a meditation on cluster munitions and what they leave behind: do not fear what has blown up; fear the unexploded.Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/gate-a-4/https://falasteen.ai/poems/gate-a-4/At an airport gate, Arabic, a Palestinian embroidered dress, ma'amoul, and a carried plant turn fear between strangers into a temporary shared world.Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/in-jerusalem/https://falasteen.ai/poems/in-jerusalem/Darwish walks the Old City from one epoch into another without a memory to guide him — a poem in which prophets share a history and the walker is left asking who he is.Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/midnight/https://falasteen.ai/poems/midnight/Barghouti's book-length poem keeps a man awake on New Year's Eve as memory, war, and grief pour through his window — and still insists that he was born for joy.Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/blood/https://falasteen.ai/poems/blood/Nye remembers her Palestinian father through the small parables he passed down — and asks what a 'true Arab' can do when the headlines themselves clot in the blood.Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/on-this-earth/https://falasteen.ai/poems/on-this-earth/A litany of small, ordinary reasons to live — bread at dawn, grass on a stone — that ends by naming Palestine as the Lady of Earth and declaring 'I deserve life.'Wed, 01 Jan 1986 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/enough-for-me/https://falasteen.ai/poems/enough-for-me/Touqan's brief late poem asks for one thing only — to die on her country's soil and remain there as dust, grass, and a flower. Its lines are carved on her gravestone in Nablus.Tue, 01 Jan 1985 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/enemy-of-the-sun/https://falasteen.ai/poems/enemy-of-the-sun/Al-Qasim's defiant refrain — 'I shall not compromise... I shall resist' — traveled far beyond Palestine: a handwritten copy was found among George Jackson's prison books.Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/here-we-will-stay/https://falasteen.ai/poems/here-we-will-stay/The anthem of Palestinian steadfastness: Ziyad vows that those who remained in Lidda, Ramla, and the Galilee will stay 'like a wall upon your chest' — rooted, working, and unerasable.Sat, 01 Jan 1966 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/i-call-to-you/https://falasteen.ai/poems/i-call-to-you/Ziyad's pledge to his homeland and his people: orphaned, naked and barefoot, he has carried his blood in his palm and never lowered his flag.Sat, 01 Jan 1966 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/to-my-mother/https://falasteen.ai/poems/to-my-mother/Written from an Israeli prison as a letter of longing for his mother's bread, coffee, and touch — later sung by Marcel Khalife, it became one of the most beloved poems in the Arab world.Fri, 01 Jan 1965 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/identity-card/https://falasteen.ai/poems/identity-card/Darwish's most famous early poem turned an ID number into defiance: its refrain 'Record! I am an Arab' made the young poet famous overnight and remains one of the most quoted lines in modern Arabic poetry.Wed, 01 Jan 1964 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/mawtini/https://falasteen.ai/poems/mawtini/The verse that became Palestine's unofficial anthem — sung at demonstrations and funerals for ninety years, and adopted as the national anthem of Iraq in 2004.Mon, 01 Jan 1934 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/min-sijn-akka/https://falasteen.ai/poems/min-sijn-akka/The funeral song for Fuad Hijazi, Muhammad Jamjoum and Atta al-Zir, hanged by the British at Acre prison on 17 June 1930. It went out with their funerals and never stopped being sung — in the camps, at commemorations, and inside the prisons.Wed, 01 Jan 1930 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/poems/red-tuesday-tuqan/https://falasteen.ai/poems/red-tuesday-tuqan/Ibrahim Tuqan's elegy for Fuad Hijazi, Muhammad Jamjoum and Atta al-Zir, hanged at Acre prison on 17 June 1930. It gave the day the name Palestinians have used ever since, and it is built as three hours — one for each man.Wed, 01 Jan 1930 00:00:00 GMT