Intertwined!

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

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How could one be spiritual

Without being saturated in love?

It’s impossible

How would one experience love

Without being spiritual to the core?

It’s not possible

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When you love

You are bursting with curiosity

Teeming with awe and wonder

You see splendour all around

In the most unlikely places

And the most unnoticeable things

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This beautiful feeling

Immeasurable

Irrational

Majestic

Real

Mysterious

Overwhelming

Defying all laws

Challenging all notions

Transcending all boundaries

Refusing to be defined

Making life worth living

Gives you a glimpse into the infinite

The unknown

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The more deeply you look at the visible

The closer you become to seeing the invisible

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As you board the boat of love

You embrace your spiritual-self

Embarking on a magical journey

Floating… following your destiny

Spirituality and love are inseparable… intertwined

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؟ ؟ ؟ ؟ ؟ ؟ ؟ . . . . . ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

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What kind of music is this I am hearing?

Who is whispering in my ear?

Scented words that has no meaning

To no one else but this poor little girl

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Drizzling love…serene delightful

Fizzing my mind with fragrant sparkles

Showering me with sweet aroma

Bathing me in heavenly foam

Suds of joy danced around

Bubbles of ecstasy embraced my soul

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The Spirit of Palestine

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

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You bombard us with death

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We “retaliate” by loving life… ever more

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You destroy our land

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We fight back by tending more

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You uproot our trees

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We resist by planting more

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You display your arrogance

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We share our hospitality and love of humanity

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You froth your supremacy with vengeance

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We embrace hope with faithful glee

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You turn our farms into eyesore fortresses

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We heal and caress with warm loving hands

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You steal our organs and chop our limbs

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Our tolerance grows… Our hearts expands

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You restrict our movement

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Our wings carry us far and high

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You destroy our homes

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Our love for the world increases many folds

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You imprison us behind walls

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We fly beyond reality and dreams

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You bomb our schools

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We learn in the street

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You cut off our energy supplies

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With candle light we persevere

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You flood us with hate and cruelty

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Our compassion grows … keeping us afloat

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You imprison our finest

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Our mothers sing for love and freedom

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You try to humiliate us

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Dignity becomes our trademark

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You try to crush our spirit

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Our courage becomes a legend

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You try to turn our lives to misery

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Our infectious celebrations inspire  joy and jubilation

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You kill our babies

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Our henna-painted hands embrace those who are yet to be born

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You can burn our homes, food, beds and toys

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But you can never steal our tranquility and peace of mind

Nor can you stop us from playing

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Out of your horror

We create beauty

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In your bombshells

We grow daffodils, lilies, basil and Jasmine

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Your nerve and teargas bombs

We fill with flowers, scented and delightful

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فلسطينيون يحولو قنبلة غاز فارغة الى مزهرية .

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Do you really think

Such spirit can be defeated!

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Such is the spirit of Palestine

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“Chutzpah” of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

The “Chutzpah” of Lord Chief Rabbi of Great Britain in his new revelations leaves you speechless:
“AIPAC” is something out of this world”
“Europe is anti-semetic”

“Falafel is Jewish”“anti-Zionism IS the new anti-semitism”

“to be a Jew in israel means you care for every life, every life is sacred”

“israel has taken a barren land and making it bloom”

“israel is an inspiration to the world”

and much much more

Watch the Lord Chief Rabbi of Great Britain


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Thank you Lina

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

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When I visited my friend, we sat to watch the news together with her little girl Lina, who surprised us with her wisdom and compassion.

Six-year-old Lina
Sitting with her mum
In her world of dreams
Watching news

Gazing away
Abruptly she says
“Mama
You know
Those Jews
Who took our land
If suddenly
They changed their mind
Decided
To give it all back
Even our trees
And our food
Then they’d become poor
They wouldn’t have to worry
We will give them
Some of our food
Share with them
Every thing we have
Mama
We won’t be bad”

This little Lina
Only months ago
Had a soldier’s gun
Pointing against her head

This little Lina
Only weeks ago
Had her uncle’s home
By their bulldozers
Razed to the ground

This little Lina
Didn’t know that
Only today
Some settlers
Protected by guns
And soldiers,
Invaded her village
Silwan
Near Jerusalem
Forced the inhabitants out
Of their homes
And occupied them

This little Lina
Proved very wrong
All that they say
“The abused …
Will become the abuser”

This little Lina
Never lost her soul
This little Lina
No doubt
Is our hope
And our ultimate victory

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Clues

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

In faces of children, pure, innocent and adorable, I see the beauty of God

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In my inexplicable ability to feel joy and sorrow, I see the heart of God

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In my humble capacity and willingness to forgive I see the compassion of God

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In my unfathomable awareness and comprehension, I see the Mind of God

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In the ocean of love gushing through my being, embracing all, I see the face of God

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I am so blessed

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

 

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I am so blessed

Being a Palestinian

Being a refugee

For over fifty years

I am so blessed

I wasn’t in the tank

With an army uniform

Killing and destroying

To frighten people away

“It was a barren land”

Later on to say!

I am so blessed

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Being under curfew

For most of my life

I am so blessed

I wasn’t with the army

Erecting high walls

Shooting at civilians

At every check-point

I am so blessed

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Losing my father

In one of their raids

I am so blessed

That it was not I

Flying planes of terror

Firing that missile

Then Laughing and rejoicing

The mission was a success

I am so blessed

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Watching my brother

Being taken away

I am so blessed

I wasn’t one of those

Kicking till he bled

From his nose and head

I am so blessed

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Burying my baby

With a bullet in her heart

I am so blessed

I wasn’t that soldier

Who took a baby’s life

Nor was I his mother

Who welcomed him a hero

When coming back home

I am so blessed

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Sleeping in a UN tent

Shivering in the freezing cold

I am so blessed

I wasn’t that settler

Who occupied my home

Justifying massacres

With a “PROMISE SO DIVINE”

Then, tossing and turning

 All night long

Wondering what’s wrong

Haunted by his deeds

Searching like mad

For a long lost peace

Which he can’t find

I am so blessed

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 Holding David’s stone

In my little hand

I am so blessed

I wasn’t giant Goliath

With mass-destruction might

Seeing himself invincible

With no hope in sight

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You are God’s masterpiece

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

You are God’s masterpiece

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Yes… you

Those magical eyes

When you’re happy smiling

And even when you cry

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This mind of yours

A universe within

Fascinating, magnificent

By its very existence

But more so, its awareness

That it exists

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That big warm heart

So loving, full of passion

Without even knowing how or why

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Can you keep a secret?

If you promise,

I’ll share it with you…

Did you say yes?

Ok then… listen carefully

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Your desire for love is an in-built yearning
To be with the One
Most Loving, God

Your hunger for justice is the innate longing
For the Supreme Just, God

Your search for peace is truly hunting

The Only Source of Peace, God

Your secret wish for eternity is merely a deep aspiration

For the Eternal God

Your profound fascination of beauty is purely awe and wonder

Of the One Most Beautiful, God

Your appreciation of all creative arts is simply admiration

Of the One Most Creative, God

Beware, don’t be distracted by signs on the way

They’re only means to get you by

Don’t mistake them for your aim

Otherwise; your harvest will merely be

Big disappointments and flat empty dreams

A heart full of sorrow confused and jeopardized

Carry on along the path

Your home and final destination

Is the One and Only, God

For… you are God’s very own

Masterpiece

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I Sing for Life

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

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by Palestinian poet Tawfeeq Ziyad

And I’d give half my lifetime to he who makes a crying child laugh

And I’d give the other half to protect a green flower from decay

And I’d walk a thousand years following a song

And I’d cross a thousand valleys whose paths are full of thorns

And I’d sail every sea that is rough to gather the scent at the lilac shores

 I am humanity in the shape of human

So would I relax, while the chaste blood is being spilled!!

 I’m singing to life

For to life I offered all my poems

 And my poems are all I’ve got

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of Forgiveness, Justice and Peace

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

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Forgiveness is not a one way street, just like love, forgiveness is an act of between two; the forgiver is the giver, the forgiven is the receiver to-be-given.

No matter how much willing the forgiver might be to forgive, his/her gift cannot be felt, sensed or received if the forgiven-to-be is not ready to receive.

Readiness to receive comes in three-folds, encompassing past, present and future. Readiness to receive means acknowledging the wrong done (in the past), the willingness to correct it (in the present) and the intention not to do again (in the future).

Only with applying these heart-purifying, soul-healing thoughts and deeds that a wrong-doer can taste the sweetness of forgiveness (being forgiven).

The forgiver may be always ready to for-give but without the willingness and the active participation of the forgiven-to-be, the receiver cannot and will not benefit from the act of forgiveness.

Teaching people to forgive is good and well but it is not sufficient to cleanse society of its ills. It only creates a lopsided society with predators and bullies who always get away with everything on the one hand, and of the meek and the subdued who always succumb and surrender, on the other.

People who are taught to forgive are the abused, those who are wronged in the first place, they are generally the passive, meek and good-natured.

Much more in need of teaching are the abusers, those who are wronging others, they are the active predators and aggressors, they are the ones in need to be taught how to cease their wrong-doing and how to seek forgiveness.

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When only the meek, good and vulnerable are taught to forgive and turn the other cheek, while completely ignoring to teach or coerce the bully and powerful to cease his aggression and to seek forgiveness, the scale of justice in a society would fall heavily on one side, no doubt favouring the aggressor and the powerful, thus creating total imbalance which inevitably means perpetual loss of peace and harmony.

Talking to the abused about forgiveness before protecting his life and rights, and while he is still under the boot of the abuser is nothing but complicity in the crime.

After stopping the criminal from committing more crimes, then and only then may the abused feel liberated and free to explore the avenues of forgiveness.

Defending and protecting the weak, meek, oppressed and abused by stopping the aggressors from his aggression is the foundation to creating a peaceful and harmonious society.

Justice ====> peace ===> forgiveness

Yesterday is gone and its tale told. today new seeds are growing

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