Poetry by Anwar Ghani

A Dark Face

I live in a faceless desert, so you can't see any rose in my heart, and all I can imagine are gray spikes. We should be good and laugh just like my grandfather, but I am a dry man who knows nothing about grass. This land, which I always love, stands on my shoulder with cold feet, so I can't see its dark face, but I touch everything in its corners.

Anwar Ghani is an award-winning Iraqi poet, Pushcart nominee and author of more than ninety books. He was born in 1973 in Babylon. His name has appeared in more than fifty literary magazines and twenty anthologies in USA, UK and Asia and he has won many prizes; one of them is the "World Best Poet in 2017 from WNWU". In 2018 he was nominated to Adelaide Award for poetry and in 2019 was nominated to Pushcart Award. He received Rock Pebbles Literary Award, International Yasser Arafat Award for Peace and the award of United Spirit of Writers Academy for Poetry in 2019. Anwer is a religious scholar, consultant nephrologist and author of more than ninety books; twenty of them are in English like; “Narratolyric writing”; (2016), “Antipoetic Poems” ;( 2017) and "Mosaicked Poems"; (2018), and “The Styles of Poetry”; 2019. Anwer is the editor in chief of Arcs Prose Poetry magazine.

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