2023-09-02 13:33:00
The late poet Karim Al-Iraqi (conscious)
Dubai – Al Arabiya.net
Posted on: September 02, 2023: 05:33 PM GST Last updated: September 02, 2023: 06:01 PM GST
After his departure yesterday, Friday, at the age of 68, accounts circulated on the social networking site “X” a poem delivered by the Iraqi poet Karim Al-Iraqi on his sick bed.
The video was filmed by Karim Al-Iraqi inside Cleveland Hospital in Abu Dhabi, on August 31, 2022, where he was being treated for cancer, during which he recited verses from the poem “The Earth is Pregnant.”
And he said regarding it, “It narrowed down on me, as if it were a coffin… but hope refuses to die (…) and patience knows who I am from childhood… I tattooed it on my ribs.”
Yesterday, the Iraqi Artists Syndicate announced the death of the most famous writer of the Iraqi lyrical folk poem, outside the country, at the age of 68, from an incurable disease, while a large group of Iraqi and Arab writers, artists, and intellectuals mourned him.
Al-Iraqi was famous for composing the lyrics of hundreds of songs, as he collaborated with great singers, such as Hussein Nima, Saadoun Jaber and Reda Al-Khayyat.
He also formed a successful duet with Kazem El Saher, for whom he wrote regarding 70 songs.
Patriotic and enthusiastic poems
In addition, the late, who was known for his closeness to the poor class, wrote many patriotic poems that spread, especially during the period of the economic blockade once morest Iraq in the nineties of the last century. Among the most prominent of these patriotic songs that he composed, in addition to “Al-Shams Shamsi” with the voice of the Iraqi lyric composer Jaafar Al-Khafaf, “Iraq Al-Karama” with the voice of the Moroccan singer Samira Said.
He is also famous for his enthusiastic poems addressed to Iraqi fighters during the Iran-Iraq war. The Iraqi, who began his artistic career writing children’s songs in the early seventies, is considered one of the most important writers of children’s literature in Iraq in the field of scenarios, stories and plays for children. He also has a number of collections and audio albums in his credits.
Born in Baghdad in 1955, he obtained a diploma in psychology and children’s music from the Teachers Institute in Baghdad, then worked as a teacher in schools in the capital for several years.
As for his most famous poems, they are still unchallenged: “The sun is my sun, and Iraq is Iraq / What other than the intruders are of my morals / Tyrants trampled on all my ears of time, so creativity erupted from my depths / I ran tables in the sterile rock and carried the light of God in my eyes / I, since the dawn of the earth, wear my helmet and my will over the poor my domain”.
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