Hearts, Tears & the Journey of Life

About the Book

This book takes you closer than ever to the Middle Eastern views of love, death, and life all through the eyes of a Syrian poet who lived his youth in the ancient capital city of Damascus. In the first section, he is exchanging words of love with pretty women who invaded his heart—giving joys or causing wounds. In the next one, he is shedding tears for beloved ones who were kidnapped by death, leaving deep, painful scars behind. And in the last one, he is trying to make sense of the endless mysteries of life, which will continue to be a puzzle forever. Visit his bilingual website at http://sites.google.com/site/tarifspoetry.

About the Author

The Author at a glance Tarif Youssef-Agha Tarif was born in Damascus, Syria in 1957. He started writing short stories and articles in his early years of elementary school and free style poetry in his college years. He earned a BS degree in Engineering from Damascus University. After a number of encounters with the brutal Syrian dictatorship regime, he decided that Syria was not a safe country to live in. He moved to the U.S. in the Eighties and restarted his life from scratch. He organized several poetry recital events in Houston in the years 2009 and 2010, glorifying the civilization, history and culture of his nation. As soon as the Arab Spring revolutions started late 2010, he instantly moved to their side and documented them one after one and step by step with his writings. This book contains selected poems of Love, Lamenting and Meditation. Follow him on facebook, google and you-tube: Tarif Youssef-Agha