Category:  Poetry Publisher: Editura Fundatiei Culturale Poezia ISBN-10:  9738813832 Pages: 275 Copyright: 2006 A four-language (English-Spanish-Romania-Arabic) poetry book; its lyrical universe evolves under the sign of the double: there is no grandeur without suffering just as there is no resurrection without death-what enables existence is the perpetual undulation of plus and minus, death and rebirth. Mural of Words 1 Poet: A reckless child Fiddles with language and logic wrecking the sanctuaries of language. Rummages in the tombs searching for magic icons. 2 Poesy: Phoenician myth A goddess cries Beirut, Beirut   3 Art:  Ra's Epic Fighting against darkness Inscribed on the pharotic wall 4 Beauty: God's painting In the museum of the soul... 5 Dancing: Body's language Away from the hallucinating talks   6 Roses:  Sun's warm kisses upon the lip of the earth.   7 Sex: Astarte's seeds Planted in the wind's body, Watered with magic, Mellowed with fire and lust. 8 Sky: Mirror of the sea Clouds are the brood of sun and wind. 9 Dew:  Tears of departing dawn. 10 Dream's eyes: Miasma windows overlooking balconies of the unseen. 11  Martyr:  Mantra on glory's lip a moonlight home's candles

Prof. Irina Vasilescu
Murals of Poetry displays a polyphony of voices and poetic registers, symbolist echoes being intertwined with gusts of tempestuous, enthusiastic romanticism. The oracular pronouncements are counterbalanced by a delicacy of vision and intensity of perception vibrating in every verse. The lyrical voice ranges from bitter imprecations to sweet declarations of love, from thundering revolt to gentle whispers, resounding with a vast array of feelings and inner pulsations.Every poem throbs with the desire to strike through the mask, to reach out beyond the murals in an attempt to grasp the essence. Plato’s dictum that “God always geometrizes” seems to be rephrased by Munir Mezyed as “God always poeticizes”, Murals of Poetry standing out as a most faithful illustration of this adage. And maybe it is in this that the artistic merit of the volume resides.