Saddam Abu Mazen-Sana'a
On the occasion of World Coffee Day, which falls on the beginning of October each year, Yemenis celebrated Yemeni coffee this year.
However, Yemeni intellectuals, writers and poets celebrated the Yemeni coffee with the flavor of creativity and the taste of bitter and bitter, because of the repercussions of their daily situation. .
Although the United Nations devoted one day to the annual coffee celebration in early October, Yemeni poets, writers and intellectuals continued their campaign for more than a week under tags such as
Its origin is Yemeni
In the context of their celebration, the coffee campaign, which began its first export shipments to the world from the port of Mocha in the 15th and 16th centuries, did not stop on Facebook and Twitter, in interactive publications and share emotional songs and circulation of photographs of coffee trees and fruits ripe red. The news of war and the cruel diaspora moment to a sip of a cup of sorrow, as the conflicting parties continue their battles on the ground.
Yemeni writers and activists also celebrate a special day for Yemeni coffee, which is called March 3 each year.
Moka is the name of the port of Mokha, near Bab al-Mandab, which saw the start of the first trips to export Yemeni coffee to the world hundreds of years ago.
In the shade of a tree
Celebrating Yemeni coffee, the poet Yahya al-Hammadi opens a window of hope, calling on Yemenis to reconcile and sit under the shade of the coffee tree with their axes in his fields and farms instead of carrying their weapons on the fronts of war. In a poem he posted on his Facebook page, he sang:
We have this country .. We are in it
The effects of meat on the molars!
What if we have now come out of us?
We led the river to the Jebus field.
And we gathered candles into suns
The swords turned us into axes
We were craving in the shade of coffee longing
To the green of drought desperate ?!
Crying on dust does not work
If the nations died in souls.
Vnjen sorrows
For his part, the poet Badi Al-Zaman, the Sultan, gathers the country's woes in a cup of sorrow, where he declares in a poem published on the websites of the celebration of World Coffee Day his affiliation with the mother Yemen and attaches to it.
Kalyaa write me Kalimm and Nunn !!
As the flavor of coffee runs in my arteries
As the tanning of the toiling tan in my homeland
The child's ligament is between berries and figs
The hungry hungry stood on me
Delusion bakeries from time to time
I am the originality of this coffee I muddy
His perfume is ecstatic among the orchards
God .. How diameters love its flavor
The wind craves all the mills
"Sana" O mother of my sorrow and raised
I love you for whom you do not wish
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I have cups of sorrows I share
My poems and sing like crazy
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How the poet hurts the human in my country
These are the battles between water and mud
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Tomorrow this war will close its yard
And the command of your Lord between the Kaf and Non !!
As for the poet Mohammed Al-Shamiri, he did not content with a single poem, but he published a series of publications and poems of the poetry of activation, which he writes with distinction, singing his browns without which he would not live.
Says:
Brown
From her palm flow valleys
above the sky,
And the coffee wind cheats me!
The poet Mohammed al-Shamiri also shared a picture circulated on Facebook of a child amid the coffee beans aired in the surrounding place and on the back a bucket (bowl) in which a handful of coffee beans fruit while sowing after the harvest. He writes:
To be a "daughter", my child
I'm an anecdote!
Not long ago, Mohammed al-Shamiri opened one of his sad mornings with a clip that siphoned Ben with a wave of soreness and waiting for the closed doors of silence.
I bring nothing this morning
The silence of coffee carries me
And inside my mouth
I don't wait for Baba to open
In my ribs the gates
Light is escaping my escape
An alphabet waiting for me to stand
A pulse to avoid smoke
The rest leaving sand
On the side of the sea
I did not write a line
Since yesterday moonlit
For his part, the poet and researcher Ahmed Al-Tars Al-Arami wrote in a Facebook post that: According to Greek mythology, the god Osiris, who taught the Greeks the science of agriculture, learned how to plant cereals in Happy Arabia (Yemen), where he first discovered vineyards and tasting the wine taken from them.
Ironically, he concludes, "We are the first to make the gods drunken. Therefore, I do not rule out being the first to teach the world to drink coffee, and their necks are now stored (chewing qat)."
Bint Yemen
The well-known novelist Ali al-Maqri, who has lived in France for years, deplores many Yemeni plight "when everything becomes a memory, including the girl of Yemen." He adds on his Facebook page in response to the occasion of the World Coffee Day, "so the Arabs called the coffee girl Yemen, also called transit Ibn al-Sabeel and camels girls Fala and worries girls breasts."
Now, you go to a coffee shop in any European city to buy Café moka, relative to the historic port of Mocha in exporting coffee, and you find it in a large bag placed within the Ethiopian coffee department! You can not convince the seller that the name has to do with Yemen and not Ethiopia, where this coffee came from his famous name! There are many cafes, too, bearing the name of Mocha, and most owners do not know what the origin of this word!
The Yemenis celebrated coffee this year, as the country's first citizens of this important tree, but it is an illusion. As we celebrate revolutions without homeland and revolutionaries without revolutions, we also celebrate a history without memory, Yemen without Yemen!
Treasure above the trees
The history of the beginning of Yemeni coffee has been linked to the world of Sufism, where novels say that Yemeni Sufis in the long time have invented coffee as a drink to help them stay up and worship and improve their mood.It is now the case where a cup of coffee improves mood, and inspires poets and creators.
Yemenis have often sung in recent years and decades with love and coffee in the songs of famous artists, talking about the link between coffee and Yemeni culture and recounted between the many stories of love and love on the sidelines of the coffee harvest seasons and farms. One of the most famous and widespread song "love and coffee" voice of the late Yemeni artist Ali bin Ali Al-Ansi, a song by the late poet Muthar al-Iryani. The song is echoed by lovers, farmers, adults and children alike, and has also been sung by other artists such as Ayoub Tarish.
The son of Yemen, Durar
O treasure above the trees
Who sows you what I lack
I am not worn with humiliation
Qat crawling
In conclusion, we note the recent decline in Yemeni coffee cultivation and its exports, as well as its decline in exports for many reasons, including the encroachment of qat farms and the acquisition of many areas at the expense of coffee cultivation in many areas of Yemen, because qat provides a continuous and uninterrupted annual income for farmers. While there is only one season for coffee harvesting throughout the year, not to mention the lack of interest in educating farmers about the importance of planting coffee trees and maintaining its cultivation as a symbol of Yemeni originality and a product associated with the country, it is called "the green gold of Yemen" as many have called the Yemeni People's Youth Revolution 11 February The name of the coffee revolution.