eclipse

Your Love is Ever Young

Now that my heart has been at 

peace for so long, 

Why do you reawaken our love 

again? 

This is sinful of you; leave my heart 

at peace, undisturbed. 

When we were still close, had you 

rejected me, 

It would then have been easy for 

us to be reconciled, 

But the span of time made my 

heart deprived, 

Inured to suffering for want of you. 

Now It is as though your heart 

is longing, 

Feeling the pain In my heart for you 

You will flame the fire of anticipation, 

Which you extinguished before by 

your own hand. 

If I could forget the past 

And If I could bear the price of 

recapturing time, 

I would discover another lifetime 

to relive the past. 

When we are together, you are 

accusing and I accepting 

It is hard for me to speak as if our 

love is past. 

Since It exists as it was, and now 

even more strongly 

I remind you of the nights past. 

Describing and imagining how 

heavenly they were. 

You are the joy and ecstasy, 

And you are the pain and agony, 

And what is love, except these all? 

As time passes by, year after year, 

Your love is ever young. 

I could forget the past joys which 

have scarred my heart. 

I will be awake nights whirling over 

memories of our past. 

I would that I could forget the past 

And its pain which left its burn in 

my tear

If this is memory, tears will 

stream down 

From the overwhelming joy of 

your memory, 

You to whom I have devoted my life, 

Yearning for your devotion In return, 

You are the joy and ecstasy, 

And you are the pain and agony, 

And what IS love, except these all? 

As time passes by, year after year, 

Your love is ever young, 

Oh, you That your love lives in 

my heart. 

Within the shadow of unity 

You are Imagination; you are 

the spirit; 

You are the companion of 

all wishes, 

Time will come and go, and you 

remain the eternal love, 

How can I say how It was in 

the past? 

In the past. tomorrow was In 

the future, 

And the present will pass before 

we notice it. 

When I am with you in a trance In 

your sea of love, 

I do not notice what is passing from 

my life 

Whether you accept or reject me, 

You alone will be In my mind 

As the one I shall always love, 

As I have loved In the past 

You are the joy and ecstasy, 

And you are the pain and agony, 

And what is love, except these all? 

As time passes by, year after year, 

Your love is ever young

Ahmed Rami poetry

Riadh As'soombati music

no,I didn't abandon this blog
how could I?
Just another eclipse.....

Mohamed Gubara

Mohamed Gubara is considered one of Sudan's finest players of the tambur,or lyre,
an instrument which has changed little for over 5000 years.He sings songs of social commentary,
political protest and love, in a voice that is completely original.
Mohamed Gubara was born into a small village in the Northern Province of Sudan in October 1947.
Music and dance are an important part of everyday life to Gubara's Shaigiyya people and he began to play the tambur at the age of ten, quickly mastering the basics of the ancient instrument.
He decided to leave his village at the age of fourteen and travelled to Atbara, the railway capital of Sudan, in the southern part of Northern Province
where he found work as a messenger. He joined a club (Al-Ahli) where he could develop his skills
on the tambur as an amateur. It was at this club where he was first encouraged to sing.
His natural way of singing showed little influence of traditional Sudanese styles and his spine
tingling high pitched delivery won him great favour with local audiences.
This local fame led to his composing the music for the first Sudanese film Hopes and Dreams.
In 1970 Gubara left Atbara for Khartoum, a perfect singer but an unknown one.
In Khartoum he joined the Armys Musical Corps where he was given a chance on the air in the Armed Forces programme aired weekly by Sudan Broadcasting Service (Radio Omdurman).

The first song to usher him into the world of fame was Umma (Mother) which narrates the deep sorrow of a loving son who has travelled far away from his mother.
Most of Gubaras songs are given to him by poets from his Shaigiyya tribe,
who also compose the melody. These poets find Gubaras voice the perfect vehicle to express their songs.
Many of the top Sudanese singers have songs written for them by poets who record their work onto cassette,often accompanying themselves on oud to suggest the melody.
The poems are then re-arranged by the singer, Gubaras songs and melodies are specially written
with the singer in mind and he does not re-arrange them, just puts his little touches to them.
Most of Gubaras songs are written by Elsir Osman, with whom the singer shares a great affinity.

H.M. Yassin
from the notes-1988

*****

Days and Nights...

in Port Sudan بور سودان

Musa Adem - Days and Nights
(an Ali Farka's brother from the Red Sea port ?)

&

'As Samaaka' Band - Inta Feenak ya Adawi

*

Stars of the night

..or it's safer to say
Nujum Al-Lail

was that  wonderful record  of  Abdel Gadir Salim from 1989
let's re-remember it

*****

along with his signature tune

Umri Ma Bansa

Salaam

let's say salaam again
from Nubia with the paintings of Fathi Hassan

Fathi Hassan 

more works

and four songs greetings from Saleh Walwali with his drummers and singers-
greetings from an  ancient land.

Salaam