WHEN ROSES BLOOMED

By Adel Bishtawi and Selvi Sado

As partner poets strolling in this second volume along the endless route to poetic maturity, we are convinced that humans are the species of the hearts and deeply influenced by powerful emotions we may not adequately explain or fully express.

The satisfactory reception of our first volume encouraged us to work harder to offer readers the best poetry we can provide and obtained by serious editing and significant revision but we remain students of life and keen observers of human behaviour.

It is not necessary to define poetry. If poetic forms cannot define themselves and convey their content clearly, it may be that poetry did not fail but the poets did. Both of us consider ourselves lucky to join our talent to integrate the natural and unique space between man and woman where emotions can be shared and appreciated.

Of all human emotions nothing is sweeter than love and nothing is more bitter; nothing is more powerful and nothing is more fragile, but it is far better to love and fail than never to fall in love. When it comes your way, you need to be prepared. Ignited by a mysterious spark, and like a baby, it needs to grow, and in time turns into a lighthouse beacon that lights the way ahead.

In this new volume, we have expanded the fields of treatment to include fresh poetry pulses and scenes, humour, poetic narratives, happiness and suffering, war and peace, as well as love stories of friends from several countries who shared with us their ideas of what amorous feelings are all about as individually experienced.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jun 12, 2024
• ISBN: 9798823088046

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Published by AuthorHouse  06/11/2024

ISBN: 979-8-8230-8802-2 (sc)

ISBN: 979-8-8230-8803-9 (hc)

ISBN: 979-8-8230-8804-6 (e)

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CONTENTS

The Celestial Icon Of Time

How Beautiful God Made You

Wish Yourself Well

Eyes Full Of Dust

Think Human

Darkness Has No Shadows

In Silence We Will Talk

Last Night I Saw Her Again

Greatest Creations

Never Will I Lose You

Is There A Certain End?

No One Is There

Tomorrow With No End

Even An Elephant Will Be Small

I Am The Best

The Bravest Soldiers Of Life

Even When You Leave

Hear Me Again

Cry For Your Victims

Soon They Will

Now!

Don’t Go Yet

I Intend To Love You

You Looked Tired The Other Night

I Am Never Alone

Your Eyes Are Just For Me

Anywhere For Lovers Is Home

You Talk Too Much

Wipe Your Sorrow With My Joy

My Love Will Survive

Chocolate Girl

When Bodies Stop Talking

Stay Sweet

The Endless Cry

The Stillness Of A Grieving Heart

Glory To You

I Am Young And Beautiful

Will You Love Me When I’m Old?

I Am Not Afraid

Age Is Always Hungry

I Will Burn You With Desire

Don’t Doubt Love

Once In A Lifetime

What Happened That Night?

Every Secret In The Universe

Man The Small

How Can I Forget

Eloped With My Heart

Once I Had A Close Friend

Had My Heart Been Mine Alone

Fate Is A Friend Of Girls

Are You A Mum?

Now He Is Gone

Nothingness

Too Much Pain Will Make You Insane

How To Honestly Lie

There Is A Girl Who Waits For Me

Wish No More

Close Your Eyes And Read

Mercy

Who Will You Choose?

Always Must Be First

You Ask Me If I’m Happy

The Greatest Trophy

Seek Her Shade

Innocent Love

Love Is Not Enough

Thank You, God, We Are Still Ok

Your Best Friend

Keep The Cup Half Full

Living Just For You

Feel And Peel

The Essence Of Knowledge Is Doubt

Your Sistine Is Me

Our Love Story Is A Song

All Of Us Will Age

Bless You Mum, I Love You

Mi Hai Deluso

Perché Non Ti Vedo?

Let Me Tell You About The Moon

You Were Always There For Me

Where Do I Belong?

I Saw Something In Those Eyes

The Silky Isabel

If You Keep Me Young

Dream Girl

Longing

Loved And Loving

The Species Of The Hearts

Not Her Lips You Will Kiss

Don’t Trust Unless You Must

I Am The Girl Disposable

Different Life; Same Crap

When Roses Bloomed

Beautiful Wonders

It Is A Duty To Praise Girls

The Present Of All Presents Is You

Happy I Always Come To You

Treat Disease With Another

Desired Men Are Urged To See

The Yellow Bird

Be

The Hug

The Courage Of Girls

Please Let Me Scent You

It Is Me Again

By The Sea We’ll Meet Again

It Won’t Happen Again

When You Smile

Give Her A Hug

Youth Will Never Be Sold

Screams Will Fill The Skies

Happiness Is Not A Guest

Don’t Wait For Happy Dreams

Now I Do

The Day You Wed

Stay Close Grandad

Doom Attack

What Price Is Life?

Help Me Mum!

Exactly Who Are You?

If You Want Your Own Sun

It Does Matter

You Want To Feel Happy

I Had A Dream

I Want To Gaze At You

Creation

Period

Allow Me To Take My Leave

Only A Woman

Sudden!

The Exclusive Sleeping Pill

How Long?

My Dad

Tell Me Lonely Hearts

What Is The Point Of Hell?

I Feel Sad For Young Lovers

Thus, Look At Us

Home

The Miserable Life Of Poets

Keep Me Sweet

Don’t Overthink

My Life Is A Total Mess

Go And Weep

Be Gone Despair

Girls And Lemons

On A Rock Solitaire

Delicate Is The Girl I Met

You Think You’ll Love A Woman Once?

Born To Do

What Happens When We Die?

When I Am With You

Allah Kareem

All Your Life You Can Wait

I Need To Breathe You In

The Poetess

Women Brave, Life Is Calling You

ALSO BY ADEL BISHTAWI

Fiction & Poetry

Only When Desire Screams (1st volume of poetry)

(co-author Selvi Sado)

Times of Death and Roses (a novel)

Traces of a Tattoo (a novel)

Gardens of Despair (a novel)

Don’t Kill the Canary (short stories)

The Lover (short stories)

The Colour of Perfume (a novella and short stories)

Other Works Including Original Research

The Common Stone Age Origins of English, Akkadian and Arapīte

& Greatest Gods of Homo Sapiens

Combined English & Arabic volumes

Natural Foundations of Arab Civilisation

Origin of the Arabic Numerals

Martyrdom of the Andalusian Nation

The Andalusian Moriscos

History of Injustice in the Arab World

Manifest Destiny of Imperial Decline

SELVI SADO

Only When Desire Screams (Co-Authored – 1st Edition)

Poetess Selvi Agim Sado experimented with poetry at a very early stage, was is and will be, a serious reader of poetry and an excellent judge of poetic qualities. Selvi commands three languages: her native Albanian, French and English. She studied at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Tirana, Albania.

From Selvi & Adel

For All Lovers of Poetry

We are travellers of time,

At the end of our journey,

The last we will make,

One day we may find,

It is not the nothingness that we take,

But what we leave behind,

Neither guilty nor innocent,

Is the human kind,

In essence and warmer parts,

We are noted for kindness,

And perhaps we can claim,

Ours remains and hope it will be,

The species of the warmest hearts.

THE CELESTIAL ICON OF TIME

All lovers are different,

But true love is the same,

When come the moments to argue,

Patience is a virtue,

And surrender is not a shame,

Lovers will always compete,

To win a glorious conquest,

By a most victorious defeat,

It is a beginning not an end,

Frail is love like an infant,

The care it needs is endless,

And always ready to defend,

But majestic love in its power,

And deep slashing in its pain,

One day the softest spring wind,

The next a furious hurricane,

Don’t spoil love with theories,

Or answer first: what is life?

And what does it mean to be living,

Or is it hell or heaven to be alive,

It was asked in the Stone Age,

And we still have the answer:

Love thrives in a loving heart,

Its blooming roses fill its wonder,

And burning poppies in every part,

Live your life and love will,

A loveless world is hell,

Three cheers to all lovers,

We bow to you and thank you all.

You are the pride of our species,

The celestial icon of time,

Stay strong and committed,

If you fail life will fall,

And the bells of lovers will cease to chime.

HOW BEAUTIFUL GOD MADE YOU

Every time I see you,

Next, I look at the sky,

I cannot see Him but He is there,

And He smiles when I say:

How beautiful you made her,

In every curve and every way,

Only a beautiful god,

Can create a beautiful you,

One day he will make you love me,

And he will tell me what to do.

Ahead of all others by far,

You know you are beautiful,

Your admirers all agree,

And all your mirrors will tell you,

But probably you don’t know,

Not just how beautiful,

But how kind and how true,

If so, why do I think,

Young I came to you,

But you are ageing me?

Close and closer you pull me,

Then away and away you push,

What exactly are you doing,

And what do you want me to do?

I am yourself and I am I,

Love is not given but earned,

It must be nursed with time,

It is forgetting and memory,

And like a child it must grow,

And even before the first word,

Love’s silence must be heard.

Every time I look at you,

My silence speaks my words:

Don’t ever worry,

I will always love you,

To you I have a million doors,

And every time you make me happy,

I seem to find some more.

WISH YOURSELF WELL

Wish yourself well,

And you will,

Love all those you want to love,

But first love yourself,

Only when you take,

You can give.

Think positive,

And you will be,

Think negative,

And you won’t be,

Or the best you can,

Is to be a clone,

Smile and life will smile with you,

Or be miserable,

And suffer