ISIS Stormed Iraq after Syria

One habit of the people of Damascus city is that when they hear a story that is hard to believe, they ask “what kind of flying alligators and elephants are these?”

ISIS Stormed Iraq after Syria

By Tarif Yoyssef-Agha

The (coffee shop) narrator said “Oh my noble listeners

ISIS stormed Iraq after Syria

ISIS occupied Al-Mussel and headed to Baghdad

And raised its flags over the oil wells

The tanks ran away in front of its horses

The jet-fighters were downed with its spears and arrows

It shelled with catapults and attacked with camels

And to communicate, it used the carrier pigeons

Thousands of soldiers fled from a few masked people

Every thing happened just like in a dream

Its accomplishments were called miracles

Commentators and writers didn’t know what to say

ISIS, then, declared the formation of the Caliph State

And that it’s Emir became the fearless Caliph

It sent a warning to the East and a warning to the West

And invited every brave horseman to recognize the new Caliph”

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At this point, the narrator stopped;

It looked like he snoozed into dreams

His listeners woke him up

And asked him to complete the story

The man fixed his position on the seat then said

“The alligators flew over the people’s heads

The elephants soared into the outer space

And then, the mice and snakes lived together happily ever after”

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A Poem translation

(Can be shared without permission)

Tarif Youssef-Agha

An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet

Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers Assembly’

Friday August 1, 2014, Houston, Texas

http://sites.google.com/site/tarifspoetry