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A look into the universe of love
A journey around humanity, its feelings, memory and hope.
Translation of the Italian text held in the archive; not an original English contribution by the named author.
His exploration of the meaning of love itself is a full-circle journey around humanity, examined through its noblest feelings but also judged in its basest instincts and deeds. The poetry he offers is simple. Like the figures of a magic lantern, his images parade the desires, emotions and fears hidden in every adult. An adult, yes, but at times longing to become a child again, to recover that lost innocence capable of redeeming humanity's malice and selfishness.
Even for a layman, as I know myself to be in the metaphysical realm of verse, this reading is both pleasant and moving. It compels the reader to enter an almost unknown dimension. We must not forget this poet's origins: Egypt, his homeland, the poignant memory of distant colours and intoxicating scents. The sense of belonging to the earth, to woman as a presence of grace and sensuality, revealed or glimpsed through those veils that were Herod's undoing before Salome's dance.
The poet's maturity emerges in passages where surrender to a universe now adrift seems to prevail over everything; yet a moment later hope returns, summoned by the verse itself. In the end the singer makes peace with his own being and finds the strength to go on living.
Giancarlo Ferrario Editor of Il Giornale di Lecco
Source recorded in the archive: Historical Ghonim.com archive
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