When storms rage with anger
When sky rains lightning and thunder
I know exactly where to hide
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Touch of magic
Posted on March 21, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Amidst the nightmarish ‘surreality’ we live in today, remember to hold on to those you love. Cherish every moment with your family, friends and spiritual family, those who fill your life with sweetness, tenderness, kindness, and joy, those who never fail to brush your day with a
Touch of magic
Today
Everything was black and white…
Void of your presence
My world was grey
You walk in
All blushes with blossom
Vibrant… fantastic hues
Today
My universe was 2D
I could only slide sideways
Just about left or right
You walk in
Up… I pop… I jump
In so many directions
My cosmos is of ten dimensions
Free… I fly
Today
I was blue icy cold
My shattered frosty pieces
Rattled inside
You walk in
My spring blooms
Jasmine… lilies…
Tulips and azaleas
Today
I was diminishing
Fraying… fading away
You walk in
My heart… consoled
My smile… radiant
My soul… whole
Restored
Today… all was dull
Shrouded with gloom
Clouded by despair
With a touch of magic
Of your being
Life is transformed
Exhilarating
Majestic
Supreme
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False flag anti-semitic attacks
Posted on March 17, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Defiant Land… Faithful Land…. Holy Land
Posted on March 12, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Painting walls and doors blue
will not make it “Jewish”
Waving angry flags up and down
will not make it “Jewish”
Scribbling around fantasies and lies
will not make it “Jewish”
Destroying evidence of deep rooted history
will not make it “Jewish”
Replacing Arabic with Hebrew names
will not make it “Jewish”
Uprooting trees and stealing livelihoods
will not make it “Jewish”
Desecrating monasteries where peace is the prayer
will not make it “Jewish”
Writing Hebrew words on stolen olive oil
will not make it “Jewish”
Burning fruit trees to tighten the squeeze
will not make it “Jewish”
Shredding Holy books to pieces, with a grin
will not make it “Jewish”
Erasing a country from the world map
will not make it “Jewish”
Moving in, at gun point to some family home
will not make it “Jewish”
Marketing our Hummus as “Israeli Sabra”
will not make it “Jewish”
Disfiguring kuffiah with six-pointed stars
will not make it “Jewish”
Vandalizing the world with blue paint in every corner
will not make it “Jewish”
Claiming God is a real-estate agent favouring his “chosen”
will not make it “Jewish”
Invading fully armed, a mosque or a church
will not make it “Jewish”
Destroying landscapes, for eyesore construction
will not make it “Jewish”
Bombing hills and mountains while hiding the crime
will not make it “Jewish”
Defiant Land
Faithful Land
Holy Land
Her stones yearn to be caressed
Only by those hands
which tenderly carved
NOTHING… NOTHING of what they do will ever make it “Jewish”
Defiant Land
Faithful Land
Holy Land
Her heart beats only
for those gentle eyes
which watered her with tears
she passionately adores
NOTHING… NOTHING of what they do will ever make it “Jewish”
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The Curse of Chutzpa
Posted on March 12, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Gilad Atzmon argues that in order to best support Palestine we must cease to view the Palestinian struggle as “just another apartheid” or “just another colonial project”
What makes the occupation of Palestine “unique” is not the “specialness” of the suffering of Palestinians, nor is it the “uniqueness” of their tragedy or the “importance” of their cause.
What makes it “unique”is the fact that: those Jewish Zionists who occupy Palestine, those Jewish Zionists who support them, and even many of those Jewish anti-Zionists who oppose them view themselves as “unique”.
Many Jewish anti-Zionists view themselves as unique in the sense that they frantically hold on the notion of the “uniqueness” of the “Jewish suffering” and the inevitability of future “multi-holocausts” due to historic, intrinsic and incurable human-condition called “anti-semitism” which is in their view a “special” case of racism of inexplicable “hatred” for Jews.
With a considerable majority, whether hard-core Zionists, soft, liberal, or anti-Zionists, they have acquired a distorted image of themselves, their suffering, their history, their morality, and that of the world.
At the core of this perceived “uniqueness” lies the rotten seed of millennia of indoctrination with the concept of “CHOSEN-NESS” which gave birth to troubling concepts such as the so called “Jewish chutzpa“, the perceived feeling of “exclusivity”, “specialness”, “elitism”, and the illusion of having “special mission”, “higher” morality, “superior” intellect, and “unique” history and suffering.
The failure of Jewish communities -liberal and otherwise- to acknowledge, address and deal with this “heritage” in a sincere and healing manner will provoke severe and unavoidable consequences.
As it appears, many people of those who identify themselves as Jews fail to see the there is a fundamental contradiction and total incompatibility between their claim of humanism and their practices of exclusivity, and their claim of “high Jewish morality” and their real life practices of slander and excommunication when dealing with others whom they disagree with.
How can they talk about such a notion as “Jewish morality” or “Jewish heritage”:
While practicing oppression, either physical -as in the case of Zionist occupiers- or mental and psychological as in the case of anti-Zionists practice of thought oppression;
while viewing “the other” as less able intellectually or morally (i.e inferior) who is in constant need for guidance;
while placing themselves “at the helm” of social progress and imposing themselves as “guardians” of anti-racist campaigns and as “leaders” of liberation movements;
while appointing themselves as the intellectual and moral “elite” with the exclusive privilege to define the meaning of words such as racism and the right to identify who is racist or not;
while granting themselves the irrevocable and the unquestionable right to label, ostracize and excommunicate others as they wish;
Those who are engaged in the above appear to lack the most rudimentary qualities of modesty and humility needed to enable us humans to examine and evaluate our own words, actions and thoughts.
Thus they fail to gain the insight needed to self-reflect, self-criticize, self-improve thus to integrate without causing others to feel intimidated or oppressed.
Sooner or later people of the world (Palestinians included) will have to come to face such dreadful reality and deal with it.
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Who is there?
Posted on February 20, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Oh human
Can’t you see!
I am precisely like you
I don’t like being humiliated
I am no one’s doormat
I’m person in my own right
When I was born
I was born innocent
Happy and free
And I want to live
A normal life
With dignity
Wouldn’t you?
I realise there is a dawn
Waiting to be born
And that… after hardship… passes away
Ease will come to life… very soon
But… they inflicted so much
Pain and cruelty
Upon this little girl
And upon her homeland
The world is watching
Eyes open wide
In bewilderment
And disbelief
“What we are watching
Is a fiction movie
It’s not really true”
While in exile
Puzzled… I agonize
Wiping tears off my saddened face
Searching around
Any one there?
Looking up… into sky
Did You hear my cries?
Did You witness the crime?
Suddenly
Knock… knock
A gentle tap
Yes, coming
Who is there?
Hope is here
Smiling at my heart
Standing by my door
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I am all of those
Posted on February 17, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Even when full
Bites of hunger eat my guts
Clad with soft and silky garments
I feel bare, no clothes can veil
Wrapped up cozy in a home so warm
My shivering bones are bitterly cold
Snug and secure in my serene abode
In constant fear… ever terrorized
No health problems or complaint
Yet throbbing pains tear me apart
This being within is not only me
But all of those who roam the earth
Longing to be loved
Yearning to be Seen
No warmth … No shelter
No wealth… No health
No food … No haven
Fleeting in stealth
Longing to be loved
Yearning to be Seen
When a child lies in bed with hunger
When a baby dies for a droplet of water
When toddlers are torn with drones to pieces
Hearts of angels burst into flames… blazing fire
Souls of prophets split asunder
Heaven cries with rage and thunder
Wait man… wait
God postpones… Never ignores
Closing your eyes pretending not to see
God’s eyes neither snooze nor go to sleep
Tenderly caressing fathers who mourn
Watching over mamas who weep
NO… No escape
We are all to blame
No lame excuse can wash our shame
Don’t get me wrong, no offence intended
But truth can hurt and may even kill
Gazing in the abyss while staying still
No longer an option… You have got a will
Don’t go far searching for the truth
Look inside, search only within
Open your heart and sing my song
Praise the Sublime and join along
Yes I am indeed all of those
Who roam the earth
Fleeting in stealth
Longing to be loved
Yearning to be seen
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A letter to God
Posted on February 16, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
يا ودود
Ya Wadoud
Dear Most Loving
Here I am
Wandering in the wilderness
Cold… soaking… frightened… lonely… lost
Dripping pain and sorrow
Arriving
Knocking at your door
Humbly kneeling down
Hands upraised
Face hidden with tears
Requesting of Your generosity
Appealing of Your kindness
Pleading of Your mercy
Shroud me with Your bliss
Wrap me up with Your pleasure
Shower me with Your blessings
Make no desire in my heart
Greater than being with You
No aspiration dearer
Than the bounty of Your love
Make me a mouthpiece of Your truth
A fingerprint of Your creativity
An ambassador of Your reality
Make me a pathway of Your certainty
A sign of Your authenticity
A whisper of Your inspiration
Make me a fountain of kindness
A lantern of guidance
A waterfall of honesty
A cascade of delight
Make me a footstep
Leading to Your splendour
Make me a pail
Pouring out love
Watching all content
Make me a lamp
Glowing with tenderness and warmth
Until none is lost in darkness or despair
Make me a cloud
Full of goodness
Raining joy
Planting affection
Flowering passion
Blooming compassion
Fruiting closeness
Picking intimacy
Feeding ecstasy and reunion
Watching all fulfilled
Living whole… serene and satisfied
Dear Most Loving
It’s only through knowing You
Can distressed hearts
Find tranquillity and peace
The wise have said:
“ if you love a thing so much, it will reveal its secrets to you”
Dear Most Loving
Here I am
An empty vessel
Lift me… Fill me… Use me
As You wish
My will is nothing
But Yours
Dear Most Loving
I am walking towards you
Your promise is true
Come running towards me
Hold me… embrace me
I am all Yours
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A Refugee with a crazy shoe
Posted on February 15, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Barbarians
Posted on February 12, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Watch the “chosen” terrorists; Jewish-Zionist barbarians demolish a Palestinian home of four families in front of their eyes…
Watch the heart-wrenching screams of children as they watch their home being torn to pieces by the “brave” soldiers of the “holy nation”
The “chosen” terrorists are only using Palestine as their lab. This BARBARIC behaviour of the Jewish-Zionist “Israelis” will be coming soon to a neighbourhood near YOU, through their Rothschild banksters and ilk.
GET EDUCATED
STAY VIGILANT
STAY AWAKE
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Poetry for Palestine 