I am seated on rubble and ashes
I don't know if Aya my doll is still in my arms
I still can hear the talks, the whispers and the crying of latest days
And the laughs of other times
I still hear the familiar call for praying, the sounds of the house …
I hope to see my family and [...]
Not Like Us © Lorelei Loveridge/Orderly Bazaar Records & Publishing, 2008.
Raze down those olive trees
Bulldoze those houses, please
Build the wall and damn them all
Raze down those olive trees
Fire on the boys with stones
Send all those bullets home
Lie to the world and deny you killed a schoolgirl
Fire on the boys with stones
We know,
all you could keep,
is an old key,
an old rusty key
and no door to open with,
because the door was left behind.
Behind the hills,
behind the walls,
there was your house,
once,
now owned by foreigner
dwelling in your land,
now made a foreign country
where foreigners feel
at home,
While you
your children,
and grand children
have to rot in foreign countries
where they say you [...]
By Raja Chemayel
My phone ran up ,I picked it up ,
it was my brother phoning me from Beirut.
"Guess what !! we have won !!"…..he said.
I answered him ,
Why ?? did the US Embassy close down and left ??
or did Samir Geagea hang himself ???
"No !! we are winning………..
can't you understand ??? he shouted.
Tell [...]
By Remi (via: Poetic Injustice)
You ever wonder why you never see Arabs on news TV?
(No, chanting ‘God is Great!’ during flag burnings doesn’t count)
4 million in the country
Thousands teaching at universities
As many at institutions
And millions ready to speak from Arab cities
(Yes, in English)
We are occupying, not one, but two Mideast nations
Looking at a couple others
Support [...]
Palestinian-American poet and political activist Suheir Hammad.
She –author of three books, two-time winner of the Audre Lord Writing Award, and co-recipient of the 2005 Sister of Fire Award– is what you would call a "political poet." This longtime Brooklyn resident sees her poetry as news, containing the power to influence and illuminate the world. She [...]
This is what we teach our kids, this is our crime, they call us anti-Semitism because we… "LOVE PALESTINE". Proud to be criminal in that sense!.
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Salaam Haitham
I hope you are keeping well.
I wrote this poem a few days ago..my friend in Lebanon passed on Friday. He was helping women and children escape from Tyre. His legs were blown off and he was left in this position for many hours. He later died on the way to assistance when the Hezbollah [...]
