In Awe, and Awesome Wonder, I Bow and Pray
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In Awe !
Posted on September 6, 2015 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
A Refugee
Posted on September 6, 2015 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
I too, was once a refugee
Shipped away in a truck
Wearing two dresses and jumper
In the heat of summer June
Fearing for her children,
Mama, ran away with four daughters
The oldest was seven and new born baby boy
Thousands upon thousands, fleeing for safety
Unlike many, I survived the bombing
Unlike many, didn’t drown at sea
Day after day, I waited to go home
Listening to the news, ever since
Hoping to hear “Palestinians, time to return”
A refugee in Libya, stranger in a strange land
Teacher asked, “where are you from?”
Full of pain, guilt and shame
I couldn’t pronounce the name
Lips sealed, and mouth dried out
I trembled and cried, sobbed out loud
Palestine, Palestine, Palestine
Raged in my anguished brain
Living on donation and UN aid
Flour and oil and sardine cans
Used clothes and shoes with holes
Too much to bear, for self-respecting souls
Children too, weep loss of dignity
Rob of homeland and rape of identity
Children too ache of humiliation
Of having no place to call home
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When Words are Abused
Posted on September 4, 2015 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Isn’t it absurd that some of the so called Jewish “israeli peace activists” leave the racist, violent and supremacist community of Jewish “israelis” to brew in their violent narcissistic delusions of “chosen-MESS’ and “divine entitlement” and come to Palestinians to preach “love, peace, equality and coexistence” !
Crypto Zionists in sheep clothing blather much about “love”, “peace”, “equality” and “coexistence”, and they shun, block and try to isolate Palestinians who talk about liberation or mention the word resistance.
Crypto Zionists in sheep clothing don’t want to see Jewish “israelis” prosecuted for their crimes, evicted from land they violently usurped or dispossessed from property they forcibly stolen at gunpoint, let alone seeing them hurt by Palestinian resistance.
Those gatekeeper who are not ashamed of defending the “right” of Jewish “israelis” to live in “peace and security”, while at the zenith of their brutality and barbarity, burning babies alive and chopping infants to pieces, will defend them even more when the real fight is on, and when their brethren face the possibility of prosecution or retribution.
“There is NO “equality” and “coexistence” between serial killers and their victims
No “equality” and “coexistence” between the raped and the rapist
No “equality” and “coexistence” between the oppressed and their oppressors
No “equality” and “coexistence” between robbers and those whom they robbed
These very beautiful words have been abused in order to protect the future of Jewish “israeli” USURPERS and to enable them to REMAIN on STOLEN land UNPUNISHED while KEEPING the LOOT
Love… Peace… Equality… Coexistence
These seemingly innocent words have been utterly misused in the context of Palestine.
Gatekeepers, who are interested in protecting the future of Jewish “israelis” and in ensuring they live in security and prosperity on STOLEN lands, use this word as means of perception management, to create a false paradigm in which the world is duped into thinking that “israelis” have a “right” to stay on a land they utterly looted, destroyed and disfigured. Their aim is to offer and prepare for a cruel “solution” in which mass murderers are protected and absolved from facing prosecution and armed robbers are shielded from GIVING BACK stolen lands and property, and from paying COMPENSATION and from the RESTITUTION of Palestinian land to its RIGHTFUL OWNERS.
Gatekeepers do NOT belong to the Palestinian camp of LIBERATION, they belong to the camp of violent supremacist Jewish invaders.
For example, look at the mission statement of “Humanity for Palestine” H4P, (created by world banker Peter Cohen, who played naive and changed it when it was exposed)
How to recognise gatekeepers?
Gatekeepers often insist that Jewish “israelis” have “legitimate claims and concerns” and have the “right” to live in “peace and security” on lands they have STOLEN
The litmus test to discern real supporters of Palestine:
1) Support of FULL LIBERATION of Palestine
2) Support of FULL RIGHT of RETURN of Palestinians
3) Support FULL RESTITUTION, REPARATION and COMPENSATION for seven decades of ethnic cleansing and slow genocide
4) Support of Palestinian RESISTANCE in all its forms
5) Support of PROSECUTION of Jewish “israeli” criminals
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Islamic Call to prayer in a Church
Posted on September 1, 2015 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
A Song of Gratitude
Posted on August 28, 2015 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
How wonderful this gift of Life is!
To open your eyes
Each glorious morning
and… see!
Life in full colour
Fabulous 3D
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.Such awesome miracles
Such boundless joy
From wondrous miracles
Stroking a leaf
Holding a stone
Kissing a flower
Climbing a tree
Even tiny toys
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How wonderful this gift of Life is!
Watching some ducklings … chasing their mama
Passing your fingers through a trickling stream
Feeling the breeze tickling your hair
Humming your song, to your love’s heartbeats
Laughing out loud, with shimmering eyes, swinging up high
Happy and wild that child inside, can you now see!
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How fascinating to be alive!
More so, to be aware of it!
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Thank you God for my life
Thank you for Life, every living thing
Thank you for all there is
Forevermore
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قلوب
Posted on August 17, 2015 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
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قلوب الناس تدق جميعاً … دقدق دقدق دقدق
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وقلبي يدق حزيناً وحيداً… قدس قدس قدس
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Random Coincidences OR Purposeful Intelligence?
Posted on August 17, 2015 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
How could one explain the existence of this expanding cosmos, which began as a simple event; a random, intense, dispersing, chaotic explosion moving into an orderly structured, finely tuned, mathematically measured, supremely complex, well-defined by laws and ever evolving towards further complexity- universe?
How many coincidences could “scientists” rely upon as a plausible explanation to the existence and evolution of the universe without blushing in total embarrassment ?
The complexity, balance, harmony and exquisite beauty which one observes would need an incalculable number of coincidences, an incalculable amount of matter, and incalculable amount of time, all of which are far greater than the mass, size and age of our universe.
The complexity, balance, harmony and exquisite beauty which one observes would need an incalculable number of coincidences, an incalculable amount of matter, and incalculable amount of time, all of which are far greater than the mass, size and age of our universe.
Before these gazillion breathtaking “coincidences” we stand in awe!
Bearing in mind the impossibility of ever disproving the existence of an Intelligence behind the existence of the universe and its laws, to EXCLUDE the POSSIBILITY of the existence of Purposeful Intelligence or an Intelligent Designer which could have caused such intricate complexity is not only narrow-minded, but also irrational and utterly unscientific, bordering on ridiculous.
Just like thought police and Medieval fanatics, some materialists would not even allow a discussion on the possibility of contemplating a hypothesis of intentional purposeful design (rather than random coincidences) as an alternative explanation to the magnificent existence of this sublime, finely tuned universe, yet they still insist on calling their rigidness, close-mindedness, and blind faith in gazillion coincidences, “scientific rational thinking”!
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Love
Posted on August 16, 2015 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Scent of Heaven
Taste of eternity
Screenshot of Paradise
Glimpse into the Divine
Love is the point where the Infinite meets the finite
Where the Boundless embraces phi ∅
Love is the magnificent energy preceding creation,
Causing all, to be
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Topography of my soul
Posted on August 15, 2015 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
When I was seven,
At gunpoint,
I was driven out of my homeland, Palestine
A Naksa, survivor, daughter of Nakba survivors
Eyes moist, gazing at the horizon
Fixated towards Jerusalem
Ever since
When I was seventeen,
My family departed Libya, moved away, as did I
Leaving all my friends behind
“I will not go through this again” I thought
“No more friends, no more love, no more gain
No more loss, no more separation, no more pain”
I said to myself
At twenty seven,
A stranger in a strange land, London, UK
The chest of my beloved was ripped open
Valve replacement in his weary heart
Standing by his side in ICU
“Wouldn’t I wish it was me under the surgeon’s knife”
“I would cope better, if I took your place”
Anguish unbearable, legs… jelly, I fell to the floor
At thirty seven,
Gasping for life, in a hospital bed
Embroidering hope with a phantom thread
Wavering in and out of existence
Four years in the abyss
Watching in despair
My children growing
Playing alone, dressing alone, reading alone,
Going to bed without mama’s song or bedtime story
A breathing shadow
I linger at the brim of sanity
In daunting anticipation
Dreading the relentless daily questions of my toddler
“Are you feeling better, mama? Can you give me a bath now?
Can you tell me a story yet? Can we play outside today?”
“Does that grey colour in your hair mean you’re going to die soon, mama?”
At forty seven,
Grieving the sudden loss of my soulmate,
Burying my beloved in a faraway graveyard
Frozen, I curl inwards,
Staring at his face fractalising, covering every spot I lay my eyes upon
Frantically I run to me
Flicking through my memories
Searching every corner of my lost mind
Exhuming my heart, tearing it apart
Chiseling the kernel of my soul with my bare hands
Maybe, just maybe, I could find Khaled’s grin again
Meet his shadow, kiss his forehead
Catch a whiff of his scent around
Or hear one of his heartbeats just one more time
At fifty seven,
oops, not there yet !
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NO… NO
Don’t get me wrong
I am not complaining, not at all
I’m merely describing the lowest points in time and space
On the map of my journey, in the canyons of my soul
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The rest is magic
Swaying hills, and gushing waterfalls
Great big mountains with high altitudes
Buoyant meadows, and dancing rainbows,
Flowing rivers, pounding oceans, hymns of gratitude
Thank you Allah, Shukran ya wadoud
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Simple Logic
Posted on July 3, 2015 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
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Since I know Love exists,
For I feel its awesome wonder
gushing through my buoyant soul
Absolute Love must exist
A Love Sublime, infinitely greater than mine
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I know Compassion exists,
I recognize its tender whispers
In the pounding of my heart embracing all
Absolute Compassion must exist
A Compassion Divine, infinitely greater than mine
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I know justice exists,
I crave for its harmonious glory
As for water in a desert, on a hot summer day
Absolute Justice must exist too
A Justice Supreme, infinitely greater than mine
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I know perfection exists,
I adore, dream of, and sing for
With every neuron of my bewildered mind
Absolute Perfection must exist
A Perfection Majestic, infinitely greater than mine
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Since I know beauty exists,
I see it in every face and every smile
Wherever I turn, whenever I look around
Absolute Beauty must exist
A Beauty Exquisite, infinitely greater than mine
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I know creativity exists,
In a fairytale of a child’s dream
Playing a heavenly tune, dancing by a stream
Absolute Creativity must exist
A Creativity Grand, infinitely greater than mine
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I know forgiveness exists,
As I bathe my soul in wondrous miracles
Heal your wounds, watch anger fade away
Absolute Forgiveness must exist
A Forgiveness Magnificent, infinitely greater than mine
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I know generosity exists,
I have tasted its splendid fruit,
Give, receive… Give, receive, watch the world goes round and round
Absolute Generosity must exist
A Generosity magnanimous, infinitely greater than mine
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Absolute, Infinite Love, الودود
Absolute, Infinite Compassion, الرحمن الرحيم
Absolute, Infinite Justice, العدل
Absolute, Infinite Perfection, الكمال
Absolute, Infinite Beauty, الجميل
Absolute, Infinite Creativity, البديع
Absolute, Infinite Generosity, الكريم
Commonly known as God, or Arabic Allah
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Poetry for Palestine 