Poems and songs… written on the love of the wounded beauty “Khartoum”

Sudan Events – Magda Hassan

As soon as I browsed the most famous search engine “Google” for songs composed about the city of Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, songs of nostalgia for the wounded capital, there appeared songs such as (When will we return to Khartoum) (We are returning, Khartoum), songs of grief and memories. The tenderness of Khartoum filled its residents with nostalgia and longing, which some translated into poetry and song.

Radwan’s paradise

However, the song of the late Sayyed Khalifa (O Khartoum, the for me, your beauty is the Radwan’s paradise) remains the icon of love for this beloved city, as it is truly on the level of a lover. Whoever loved it would flirt with it, and whoever saw it for the first time, before the curse of war would spin with it. Even the late poet Nizar Qabbani included it among his lovers after it fascinated him, leading him to write beautiful poems about it.
Khartoum was the inspiration for every Arab poet who was its guest. It represents the beauty that poets compete to weave the letters of poetry to express their admiration for it, its nature (greenery, water, and beautiful face), not mentioning the generosity of the Sudanese and their welcoming of their guest.

Everyone’s destination

The Egyptian poet of Upper Egypt, Abd al-Rahman al-Abnoudi, was one of the first poets to write sweet letters about Khartoum, and al-Abnoudi is one of the poets who cherishes Khartoum and fully appreciates its status, and values ​​its patriotic and national role when he describes it as everyone’s destination when they disagree, when they reach crossroads and when they part. Also the veteran Kuwaiti poet Yaqoub Al-Rasheed, who recited at the opening ceremony a poem entitled “Greetings to Khartoum.” He entertained the audience with his poetry about Khartoum, as his poem was a rich treasure of sweet and charming poetic words, formulated within a framework of modern, musical and captivating meters.

Brunette yarn

Also, (Samra) is a poem about the love of Khartoum, which is the title of the poem in which the late Omani poet and writer Ali bin Suhail Hardan participated in the Sudanese Forty-Fourth Independence Day Festival, which was held at the Sudanese Community Social Club in Muscat – Sultanate of Oman on the twenty-sixth of January 2000. He had some Omani poets participated in that festival, along with Sudanese poets, who presented poems overflowing with genuine love and rare loyalty to Sudan and the Sudanese.

The Rising

The lyrics of the poet Mahmoud Al-Jili, performed by the singer Mustafa Al-Sunni, “All cities aside, but you, Khartoum, have all the love.” Many poems and songs are popular these days about Khartoum, as they rise from their stupor to stand tall and beautiful, stealing the hearts of poets.