A POEM

Ustaz Osama,
Thank you so much. I'm really honored by your review of my humble attempt at writing poetry. I do appreciate your positive feedback and invaluable comment.
English isnt't my first language- I'M STILL LEARNING- but I've been using it as a medium of communication in my professional life for almost three decades. Some of my poems in English were published in anthologies here in the U.S but I haven't tried submitting any publishable works in Arabic for the obvious reason: it's hard to. I would if I could.
I personally think,(you may disagree with me Osama),in comparison to Arabic, writing in contemporary English is much easier in terms of diction, technique, rhetorical flexibility and fluency. Verbal gymnastics would be fun in most modern European languages including English but could lead to facial contortions from your average Arabic language editor/reader and possible unfavorable reviews by over-zealous critics.
In Arabic, convention dictates that you've got to be well versed in classical Arabic to produce a work of reasonable literary erudition. Our modern life with its hectic schedules is too short for that I think.
Thanks a lot Ustaz Osama

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