Thanks, Michael Uebel !

In my opinion, Rumi's poems will solve your needs.

Rumi's poems are old but it seems that they are written for the present and future.

Good Luck.

Thanks, Mosayeb Dashtpeyma . I'm more into modern, politically oriented poetry.

You may find Raymond Williams' The Country and the City still useful, despite its age

Thanks, Ahmad Saidullah !

Your lines from Mahmood Darweesh's poem appear to be comparable to certain verses written by the modern English symbolist poet William Butler Yeats in "The Gift of Harun al-Rashid."

Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen

How to Kill by Keith Douglas

Protocols by Randall Jarrell

Thanks, Marwa Ghazi Mohammed !

Thanks, Nancy Ann Watanabe !

If my enemy and myself happen to be hurled into a pit from.air either of these two reactions will ensue. 1. A sudden encounter, an aggressive fight between the two opposing forces leading to a catastrophic end: tragic death of one of the warring parties or both enemies. 2. A sudden and unexpected end to the enmity of the duo thanks to an unexpected reconciliation of the two enemies having come to their wits' end, right in a pit with no hope of external aid to salvage them. Their reconciliation comes with it an awakening of the consciousness of the philosophy of ubuntu: Because you are, I am. This will trigger off a sense of interconnecteness between the two and the urge to seek fervently to salvage each other. There is the possibility that the pit is not too deep. Let us suppose that one of them on carrying the other up the shoulders could make his way out of the pit.Then on getting to the top, will look for a strong rope or stick to lower to the partner, now a friend for him to hold at one end while he holds the other end firmly and he drags him up, out of the pit. 3. Another case scenario is that on helping one person to come out of the pit, the rescued person turns his back on the assumed friend, jettisons the new found friendship, discards the concept of ubuntu and goes home abandoning the victim of circumstance to die quietly in the pit. 4. A worse case scenario is that the rescued one hurls abuses and invectives on the one still in the pit and even finds a sharp pointed stick or metallic object and uses it to snuff life out of the supposed friend in the pit. Too many possibilities.

Thanks, @Ifeoma Onyemelukwe! Isn't it interesting how poetry can say a lot in a few?! Darweesh was projecting an imagined scenario of negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Politics-poetics connectedness.

@Ifeoma Onyemelukwe, thanks for elaborating on possible scenarios. Is there another equivalent for the Ubuntu concept in Anglo-American literature or philosophy?

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