Tag: politics
member name: Safi Abdi
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May 23, 2006 12:48 AM EDT --
I wrote this poem after observing with keen interest the US government's shabby treatment of an old friend: Saddam Hussein. Watching in disgust the televised dehumanizing process of this former friend, . . .
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July 05, 2006 03:50 PM EDT --
Once upon a time it was perfectly normal for people to side with the weak and the downtrodden. Though humanity was never perfect, the world created luminaries, listened to their voices and even supported . . .
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June 12, 2006 12:33 PM EDT --
The Palestinian boy
Happy his lot could've been
Chasing ball
Carefree under the open sky
Dreaming in colors
And of the scent of roses.
But there are no bouquets for this boy
Just coffins and the . . .
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July 27, 2006 05:27 AM EDT --
The following thoughts were inspired by Ariel Sharon's 2004 visit to Washington. For details as to why Sharon was grinning so loudly beside his host George Bush please follow this link:
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June 13, 2006 02:35 PM EDT --
Are all Terrorists equal? Or are some Terrorist more equal than others?
For the sake of clarity let's call them:
Terrorist A......Terrorist B.......Terrorist C......Terrorist D
Terrorist . . .
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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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July 06, 2006 05:31 PM EDT --
I look into her eyes
Patient tears dripping
Celestial lights mirroring
Her voice is the sound of music
The jittery nerves soothing.
I linger on the motifs
sprinkled in the sands
For the . . .
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June 08, 2006 03:50 PM EDT --
Today US has lost a very important offspring....In the death of al- Zarqawi the Pentagon has lost a very convenient ally in the war on "Terror". All the while FOX News, CNN and the rest of the . . .
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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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July 19, 2006 07:26 PM EDT --
US Veto Power (Dictatorship in the Security Council)
Terrorist (You become a Terrorist if you say no to tyranny)
Ally (If you put selfish US interests before your people's legitimate interests . . .
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July 25, 2006 10:24 AM EDT --
The Midlle East's only democracy has 9850 Palestinian prisoners in its jails. 359 of the prisoners are children. These children are not only mistreated they are not even provided with medical care . . .
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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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September 05, 2006 11:34 AM EDT --
coward's Paradise
double faced nonetheless
careful wise
to save some hide
the other swipe.
one day here
the next there
resolution infirm
belongs never in light.
al munafiq . . .
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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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July 06, 2006 05:47 PM EDT --
What's there to say ?
To a human thrashed;
A woman beaten here
A baby bashed there
Up against a wall
A population utterly pressed.
What's there to say?
Happiness . . .
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July 10, 2006 04:42 AM EDT --
If
I were a bird
I'd build my nest
In some corner
Out of sight.
If I were a bird
I'd perch
On the branch
Of a palm tree
And let Ache
On the wings
Flutter away.
But . . .
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July 14, 2006 03:56 AM EDT --
When days are filled with unnatural chants,
Often the handshakes are just as bare.
Scratched olive branches rot in the winds
As hurried Angels pick up the souls on heavenly wings; . . .
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January 10, 2009 04:51 PM EST --
Since the December 27 Israeli bombardment of Gaza began and people have seen with their own eyes the carnage and bloodletting even Israel friends are falling out of love with the Zionist state. . . .
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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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July 23, 2006 07:43 AM EDT --
My dear President, Master and Dispatcher, please listen to me. Will you drop that golf club and come sit near me? Closer, closer, President. Now what do you see behind the mask? Do you see any trace of . . .
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