Symphonies of Time
By Eman Abid
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Symphonies of Life Trilogy:
Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5
Symphonies of Lifeis a wonderful spiritual undertaking that provides food for the soul.
When reading Abid, I hear echoes of both the Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam and Rumi.
Her poems are truly a monument to the region and one of the regions richer gifts of culture to the world.
Cory Lowell Grewell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
American University in Dubai
Her work is, indeed, about the symphonies of life composed every day, by the high-born and the humble of this world. Each human composition is made of moments of deep contemplation, times of simple pleasure, or points where we find ourselves between a rock and hard place. These very moments are the stuff of life, and Emans work brings us into the midst of it and shows us the subtle, transformative power of philosophic observation.
Sandra K. Alexander
American University in Dubai
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
August 2013
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Symphonies of Time - Eman Abid
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Contents
Author’s Page
Symphonies of Life
Review
Dedication
Thank you note
This Fire Runs Deep
One Step Closer
You Were Never Gone
Flee
Who Am I?
Hope In A Bottle
The Sky
End Of A War
I’ve Come Back For You
Don’t Look At Me –
Ostracized
These Scars Run Deep
A Wondrous Life
I Can’t Let You Go
Wake Up
Meant To Fall…
Allies
Don’t Pretend
To Know Me
Do You Remember?
Last Hour Of Peace
Descent
In The Corner Of My Heart
Peace
Stand Alone
Ocean At The Door
Let It Burn
Friendship
Not Alone
Go…And Come Back
Games
Walk
A Perfect Secret
Pretense
A World Won Back
Step Into The Light
A Perfect World
The World Has Left You Behind
The Stars That Made War
The Cold Has Taken Over
This Bold Journey
Bridge Of Time
The Shadows Left Behind
Trust
These Empty Words
Remorse
Not Forgiven, But For Forgotten
Close Your Eyes
Let The Walls Come Down
Future
Kindness
Dear Dad
Dear Mother
Dear Brother
Forest
End Note
About the Author & the Book
Author’s Page
Eman Abid has been writing since she was 8 years old. She wrote her first poem ‘Mother’ at the age of 10, and completed her first novel at 12. After graduating from The International School of Choueifat-Dubai, she was awarded a scholarship from Sorbonne University. However, in order to concentrate on her writing, Eman Abid stayed in Dubai. She achieved a degree in Business Management from The American University in Dubai (AUD) along with a certificate of Cinema Director and Line Producer from The Hollywood Film Institute from Dubai as well. Currently, Eman is working on Symphonies of life, a collection of poems 2nd edition, and getting her novels and short stories ready for publication.
Some of her upcoming novels include a series of books based around a young man’s journey into a world he cannot understand, yet cannot escape.
The titles for the series are as thus:
Road to Dynasty
Under the bridge
No exit
My way or the highway
Some other novels include the following titles:
Shadow
The Violin player
Eman Abid’s poems achieve something not much poetry written in English in recent years does: they are very, very readable. It would be silly to call a book of poetry a page turner, but I find myself, upon finishing one of these poems, wanting to go on to the next one.
Abid’s rhythms and use of rhyme – both internal and end rhyme – give these poems a very contemporary sound, and yet at the same point the diction, the figures and symbolism, and the deep moral tones impart an undercurrent of aesthetic wisdom that ties this poem to a poetic tradition that goes back years and years. Poems like Some
and Freefall
, for example, illustrate the easy conversational parallelism of nascent urban oral poetry, while poems like The Road to Heaven
impart to us in a new vernacular the proverbial wisdom of ages past. When reading Abid, I hear echoes of both the Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam and Rumi.
Another thing that Abid does in this volume, and again something poetry in English has not done nearly so well, in my estimation, for some time is speak coherently and meaningfully to her culture. The poem Fashion,
for example, asks us to think complexly about the morality of fashion, and the approach is not the simple, clichéd denunciation of materialism we might expect. There is room for the morals of aesthetics, and the whole ethical context is grounded in the extremely complex moral universe that is the contemporary city. This volume contains many poems that tackle similar instantiations of modernization, and in my mind, this is perhaps her signature contribution to both contemporary poetry in English and to twenty-first century culture.
To me, Abid’s poetic images and morals show the marks of being formed in the crucible of the emerging city of Dubai, the textbook instance of rapid modernization and globalization, and she wonderfully engages the challenges to traditional regional mores and ways of life that the city presents. Many of these poems have implications well beyond Dubai for modern societies that have moved so far from their roots, but only Dubai, a city whose rise to ultra-modernism and economic wealth has happened so rapidly, could give birth to the rich juxtaposition of the deep traditionalism and chic couture of our Eman Abid’s poetry. Her poems are truly a monument to the region and one of the region’s richer gifts of culture to the world.
Cory Lowell Grewell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
American University in Dubai
Symphonies of Life
‘A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.’
- W. H. Auden
The work of Eman Abid is replete with the language of hopefulness, aspiration and wonder, and with an obvious love for the endless possibilities of life itself. It has been said that all philosophy begins in wonder and thus, much of Eman’s work has a truly philosophical quality. The subjects of the mind, the heart, fear, life’s very purpose, and a myriad of other unfathomable human experiences all find expression in her poems. Whether considering the connections between time and the secrets of life in Wind, or the differences between the courageous and the weak in Some, her work takes everyday human experiences and observations and shows them in their truest, most meaningful aspects. As we find in the poem No Promises, hers is a world about the paradoxical liberation and difficulty of devotion. Hers is a world where the mundane objects of life come alive, as we find in the poem Bulb – a piece that conveys the humility of the mundane and the overlooked. Hers is poetry about decision making and about the struggle to become ‘fully oneself’ in a world where half-heartedness often gets one by. The poem The Road to Heaven abounds with references to our daily challenge to ‘do good’ and ‘do no harm’, and a warning that although life is a gift, it is also a test. Hers is a world, as seen in Symphony of a Warrior’s Heart, where love and peace are met by obligation. Her work is, indeed, about the symphonies of life composed every day, by the high-born and the humble of this world. Each human composition is made of moments of deep contemplation, times of simple pleasure, or points where we find ourselves between a rock and hard place. These very moments are the stuff of life, and Eman’s work brings us into the midst of it and shows us the subtle, transformative power of philosophic observation.
Sandra K. Alexander
American University in Dubai
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
August 2013
Review
Dear Eman,
Greetings!
Firstly, I wish to congratulate you for you’re just about to give birth to another soulful work!
Your works really justify your objective, i.e., to merge the two compilations, thus having Symphonies of a Lifetime. The impending anthology would really capture the heart of every reader as each piece mirrors the universal emotion of anyone at any time or season. One strength that this anthology possesses, is its visceral description of every subject in your poems. Another potent characteristic is the centrality of the images depicted, not a single poem misses this trait. Moreover, the persona is clearly identified in every work such as clarity of the persona, although confronted with different burdens that