Tag: life
member name: Safi Abdi
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April 25, 2006 02:10 AM EDT --
This is not about you or I
The marks on the map of our life,
these alone being of importance paramount,
As they eagerly await us in the caves
Personified in whatever garb
we clothed them . . .
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May 08, 2006 02:08 AM EDT --
I wished to write a story
longed to share the aching
then said I to myself,
But how can that be
when the pain
never was for you to keep?
And the moon was like
a massive balloon
that night
frolicking . . .
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May 20, 2006 10:36 AM EDT --
Are you a Hate-Foster...Or Reconciler?
Do you get a kick out of hating humans?
Or are you the type of person who would nip the urge to hate in the bud and get on with life, even when angry?
Are you . . .
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June 19, 2006 04:21 AM EDT --
Cool water under feet
Flawless sky overhead
Cushions for tired bones
A cupper for soul's desire
I have reached the place
All travels to end here.
(c)Safi Abdi
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November 09, 2006 02:31 PM EST --
When I'm gone
and veiled
In green grass
When I no longer cast
a shadow under
the afternoon sky
And words no longer
the voice machine jam.
In that moment
of belief...
Flowery speech?
No, my dear, . . .
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June 07, 2006 09:56 AM EDT --
The police housing complex was behind us. As we closed the fence gate I raised my right hand and waved my salaams. Father waved back and returned to his bunker.
We were at last on the other side . . .
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June 23, 2006 10:37 AM EDT --
Blindfolded...
On the pavement
Impatient
We push
the traffic pole.
Perhaps the light pole's
The summons post?
Or the Pedestrian's
Just the place
The angel descended?
Blindfolded we walk . . .
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July 01, 2006 06:03 AM EDT --
As we all know TERROR has of late become a world wide phenomenon... rearing its ugly head wherever one turns. Following is the honest reflections of one who would rather see an end to this ugly monster. . . .
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June 22, 2006 03:24 AM EDT --
The subject of Muslim Women's Rights has been a hot topic in certain circles for sometime now; some of the most strident voices emitting from quarters whose knowledge of Islam borders the ridiculous. . . .
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June 04, 2006 03:59 AM EDT --
How to Treat a Hate-Foster and transform him into the Planet's Happy Conciliator. A follow up to: Are you a Hate-Foster…or a Reconciler? In the introduction to that post, I asked the following: . . .
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July 03, 2006 11:00 AM EDT --
Look me up in this picture blotted
There I am in wires adorned
Look from right to left
And left to right
Pause...
Feel these limbs
See how I pose
In the rubble molded.
See and believe
What Israel writes . . .
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January 11, 2008 09:44 AM EST --
Between death and I a breath
Between pain and I a needle
Pray tell,
Where am I between me and my Lord?
@ Safi Abdi
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October 05, 2006 05:53 PM EDT --
The stone pebble and the soil under his feet gentle
Grateful, delighting in every moment treaded
To the cave of light, soul eager as he retreated:
Read! The Arch Angel commanded.
Read! In the name of thy . . .
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July 16, 2006 06:39 AM EDT --
HizbuAllah, or the party of God, is a small Lebanese faction that is fighting the Middle East's strongest army. It's by virtue of its trust in God and steely determination that they are able to . . .
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August 05, 2006 02:09 PM EDT --
To celebrate Olmert's bloodletting of Lebanese and Palestinian children and women, our lady Condoleeza Rice had parroted, on behalf of her boss, a rather sinister terminolgy. Out of this painful . . .
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August 28, 2006 06:51 AM EDT --
Is thrashing Islam a Christian thing to do? Is bashing Islam an article of faith in Christendom? Is vilifying Islam a Commandment in the Bible? Or is the centuries old Christian enmity born out of pure . . .
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April 18, 2007 11:12 PM EDT --
Why me? Why now?
Why not you?
Why not now?
Spirit Collector
Called on Trader.
Why not YOU?
Why not NOW?
Somebody’s got to go
Every minute’s a go
Together with a soul
For the common goal. . . .
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June 07, 2006 01:29 PM EDT --
Inseparable by custom's ride
Life goes on as it were a rite.
Norms, and not heart
Are grand lullabies in this hearth.
Mere hand-outs in jest's ride
Bespoke a woman's prize. . . .
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November 11, 2006 02:27 PM EST --
I'd waded in those waters before
Are you tossing me some more
Tears?
Then, I'll drop them like a hot coal
Or make them into a pouch
And wear it like a pearl.
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June 24, 2006 11:38 AM EDT --
Swift is death when it meets the host…
Death comes and man a weeper...
His case closed now just a moaner:
My Lord! My Lord!
As of today I shall abide
Undo my time to prove the right . . .
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