Tag: war
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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August 20, 2008 04:34 PM EDT --
'Human Rights'
A darling embroidered in lovers' hearts
To seek justice's not a crime, so I am told
Yours a human rights issue, so goes the song.
But my reality's unfairness . . .
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August 16, 2008 12:11 PM EDT --
Poets are linked by a call, akin to faith
Hope, the pillars of this universal goal
Aspirations activate, spirits elevate.
Justice's the cup
The peak's in the poet's eye
Oh, wrongdoer! . . .
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October 02, 2006 05:39 AM EDT --
I posted this poem sometime back on Authorsden without an introduction. A fellow author had emailed me and asked if I could provide some background information to the poem. She wasn't sure about the . . .
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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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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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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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January 21, 2008 09:27 PM EST --
It was on a dark Sunday when he came. When we last saw him on TV prior to that day he was in Zionist-land, patting the shoulders of his 'peace-loving' friends, and giving the poor . . .
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June 29, 2008 07:32 AM EDT --
The story of a child
Not combat attire.
The story of a child
Disarrayed in the rain.
Columns of tanks in battle array
And a woman carrying a pitcher of the rain.
She is . . .
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April 15, 2007 06:32 PM EDT --
She is a poor refugee and a by-product of a nation gone mad. The poor refugee is Ayan Hirsi, and that nation is Somalia.
This is a woman who shares with countless vulnerable refugees and impressionable . . .
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March 04, 2008 06:32 AM EST --
The absolute love
Of a spirit calling the beloved
To her bosom
Lip-service never satiates.
Hearts are aggrieved
At an unfairness celebrated
With every tear . . .
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December 28, 2008 11:24 AM EST --
To all who wait for the doomsday to light
To all who rejoice at the death of a child delight.
A wound only so much pain can toil
Hunger and anger what a brew to boil.
Devils get hitched rain . . .
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July 22, 2006 10:12 AM EDT --
if there is anything the Arab/Muslim street has been unanimous about is that Arab rulers have sold their souls. Whatever doubts people might have had about these corrupt individuals and their apparatus . . .
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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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August 05, 2006 04:36 AM EDT --
Listen to the bulldozers rumble
Sharon'd stoked up trouble
Don't grumble or tumble
Stretch that blanket
In the debris trodden.
Beware that tent UN strutted
Beyond the stars for cover, don't . . .
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August 26, 2006 10:17 AM EDT --
A government, by the people, for the people…, so went the song, sweet enticement for the masses...But that was until the Palestinians went to the polls to elect their leaders. Did we miss something . . .
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July 21, 2006 03:26 PM EDT --
When the saint and the sinner are one and the same
When the king and his subjects are similar in intent
When the evening shadow gulps down the morning star
When small beings destabilize their habitats . . .
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March 18, 2006 04:13 AM EST --
Mother! Mother!
Grieve not over my bones
Scatter not the precious tears
Mourn not alone, MOther!
Take hold of my shredded turban
Escort me to my garden!
Safi Abdi...2003
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