Be a Rose

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

Be a rose

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Giving fragrance when caressed

Held up softly, crushed or destroyed

 

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In abundance it fills the ambiance

Never withholds what it contains

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Every person you come by

Paths have crossed, wisdom unknown

 

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Don’t let it pass or go to waste

Without a whisper, heart to heart

 

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Spiky shells hide weary souls

Fragile and wounded throbbing in pain

 

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Just like you, carry own load

Seeking retreat, hurting and cold

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Wash tears and fears with a glowing smile

Extend your hands, embrace a face

 

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Reassure with a tender gaze

Delight, as you leave your scent behind

 

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Brush your surrounds with your heavenly soul

Paint grey days with rainbow hues

 

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lilac and mauve, violet and green

Red and amber, pink and blue

 

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Scatter your pearls for all who seek

Sparkles of joy, boundless sublime

 

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Awaken seeds of love, dormant inside

Watch barren hearts tremble and bloom

Be a rose

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Motherhood

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

Motherhood,

A gush of sweet love

An eruption of emotions

Pure and sublime

Love of life

Cherishing life

All life

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Life is Beautiful

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

 

Stop running…why the haste

 Slow down… For a moment

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Hold my hand, and come with me

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See that tree over there

Come stroke her velvet leaves

Embrace her trunk

Lean your head over hers

Stand still

Close your eyes

Hold your breath

Listen

 Can you hear her heart beating?

Be amazed… Be in awe!

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Come invite this butterfly

To the palm of your hand

Watch her flapping her splendid wings

Teasing you, with hide and seek

While she leaps flying far

Look with eyes open wide

At the marvel of design

Be amazed… Be in awe!

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Take off your shoes

Throw them away

 Tread on your tiptoes

Feel the softness, laugh with joy

As you tickle the grass below

Kiss the tender loving hand

Who laid such magic carpet down

All creations are VIPs

No distinction no favouritism

Endless kindness, full of grace

Be amazed… Be in awe!

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Come closer, smell this rose

Kneel in front and fill your soul

S…l…o…w…l…y

Do not hasten, do not ignore

Her heavenly scent is made for you

Caress the petals… and enjoy

Fill your being with gratitude

Fall on your knees

Praise the maker, head bowing down

Boundless gifts… Love Divine

Be amazed… Be in awe!

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The impossible dream

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

Though I have not written this song, it resonates with my soul as if every word is mine

The impossible dream

by Jello Biafra

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far

To be willing to give
When there is no more to give
to be willing to die
So honour and justice may live

To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause

And I know if I’ll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I’m laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star

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No fear in my heart

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

Do this you lose,

Do that I win,

Losers !

You could imprison me!

With that you ONLY imprison my physical body

My joyful soul you cannot restrain

Out of your reach

Forever FREE

Floating in contentment, tranquillity and peace

Watching your despondent captive souls

Behind bars of your wickedness and lies

Walls of your guilt, fear and insecurity

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You could kill me!

But my poetry is unassailable

The minds of many already impregnated with my words

As soon as you make me a martyr

Those seeds would be infused with life

Hubs of love

Like rays of sunshine… warm… tender… invigorating

Giving birth to a delightful dawn

Hubs of love

Like summer rain… pure… cleansing… revitalizing

Gushing through hearts and minds

Hubs of love

They’d bloom and multiply

Budding… hope, buoyant and sublime

Blossoming… verve and splendour

Just try

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Divine Love

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

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Divine Love embraces all
Flakes of heaven
Falls like rain
Sublime and tender
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Kind hearts abide with wonder
Share with all without constraint
Every drop blooms to oceans
Smiles aghast, grateful souls
Gift their love, received with passion
Cherishing life in utmost joy
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Divine Love embraces all
Flakes of heaven
Falls like rain
From rugged hearts it slips unnoticed
Drizzled or drenched not a crack would open
Not a seed would bud
Not a weed would grow
 Its only lust, destroy destroy
Beating drums of own demise
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Beauty

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

Sometimes, beauty is mistakenly understood;

Assuming that

If someone is beautiful, they are always good,

When truth is

When someone is good, they are always beautiful

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Heart songs

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

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Each one of us is born
With heart songs inside

When the ride gets rough,

People become tough
Life rages with noise

Our heart songs faint

To the background
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But each one of us is born
With many heart songs inside

A kind word, or a poem,

Caress of a tender hand,

Attentive ear,

A meal made with love,
Or a prayer said in silence
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A gaze pure and gentle,
Heartwarming embrace,
A small act of forgiveness,
A glorious twinkle in the eye,
Or a radiant smile
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When autumn falls
Don’t hibernate
Get out and about
Plough the meadows of your soul
Seeds of good deeds
Plant all around

Let love bloom

Let hope thrive
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Open your heart

Dance to its singing
Paint the corners of your soul
Pink and lilac, blue and green
Then sway and shine
Sprinkle your joy
Extend your hands
Embrace the world
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Is it me standing on my head, or is the world upside-down?

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

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Silent cries of babies dying pierce my ears

Deformed infants born, a nightmare called “life”

Corpses of bleeding whales paint the ocean pink

Lifeless grey trees, trunks chopped and dry

Bees falling dead “we don’t know why”!

Breathless sweet dolphins scattered by the seashore

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Heavy nights descend like bricks

Hidden hands tighten around my neck

I’m breathing mud, I’m breathing sand

Is it just me standing on my head?

Or is everything around me, upside-down?

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Destruction… “conquest” of nature

Radioactive waste… praised as accomplishment

Robbery in broad day light… a “Historic Achievement”

Progress… a family is no longer mum and dad

Liberty… measured in nudity per cm², put on display

Civilisation…  how many weapons  a nation could amass

Science… a tool of annihilation and a mushroom cloud

Charity… bailout of bankers adding to the trillions in their “empty” coffers

If we don’t give them that, our world would collapse… yes, collapse!

Economy… snatching the last piece of bread from a hungry destitute

Financial growth… interest goes up and up, while life goes down

Security… watching every move, recording every word, just to keep us “safe”

Technology… counting every breath, monitoring every dream only just in case

Defence…  watch out, every blink of an eye might be a “secret code”,

 Every social gathering could be a “sleeping cell”, call 999 only just in case

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O dear Beloved God

How could such a small heart

Take all this pain

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I don’t want to be here
I don’t want to take part
In this evil madness

All I want to be

Is a leaf on a tree

or a wild flower by the road side

Hide forever

Where no one could see

Look up into Heaven

Smile at angels as they pass by

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Just a thought

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

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Our quest for JUSTICE through our pursuit of TRUTH is what should keep our intentions pure and our actions noble.

Our passion for humanity, beauty, harmony and equality is what allows love to grow in our hearts unhindered.

Like the Holy Land that is Palestine, it shines with goodness through the pursuit of its people for spiritual truth and by existing in harmony with nature and the pace of nature.

What makes it Holy and so breathtakingly beautiful is its embrace of that which is organic, pure and natural.

Thus, when we align ourselves in full harmony with the epitome of Nature’s Divine Laws, i.e Balance outlined with Beauty, translated in human terms as Justice embraced with Compassion, we become one with all there is.

If we slip, however,  into following the deceptive and oppressive methods of those whom we oppose, we lose the battle and it would be our defeat.

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