Waste of Time

What am I going to say?
Even I don't know what it'll be.
I'm trying so hard right now
To find a nice way to say it.

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فكِّر بغيركَ
وأنتَ تُعِدُّ فطورك، فكِّر بغيركَ
لا تَنْسَ قوتَ الحمام
وأنتَ تخوضُ حروبكَ، فكِّر بغيركَ
لا تنس مَنْ يطلبون السلام
وأنتَ تسدد فاتورةَ الماء، فكِّر بغيركَ
مَنْ يرضَعُون الغمامٍ
وأنتَ تعودُ إلى البيت، بيتكَ، فكِّر بغيركَ
لا تنس شعب الخيامْ
وأنت تنام وتُحصي الكواكبَ، فكِّر بغيركَ
ثمّةَ مَنْ لم يجد حيّزاً للمنام
وأنت تحرّر نفسك بالاستعارات، فكِّر بغيركَ
مَنْ فقدوا حقَّهم في الكلام
وأنت تفكر بالآخرين البعيدين، فكِّر بنفسك
قُلْ: ليتني شمعةُ في الظلام

- محمد درويش

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Think of Others

As you prepare your breakfast, think of others
(do not forget the pigeon’s food).
As you conduct your wars, think of others
(do not forget those who seek peace).
As you pay your water bill, think of others
(those who are nursed by clouds).
As you return home, to your home, think of others
(do not forget the people of the camps).
As you sleep and count the stars, think of others
(those who have nowhere to sleep).
As you liberate yourself in metaphor, think of others
(those who have lost the right to speak).
As you think of others far away, think of yourself
(say: “If only I were a candle in the dark”).

- Mohammad Darwish

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Repeated For A Reason

It's a simple reminder.
How often you heard it
Does not matter
Because it's still of benefit.

You may feel tired
Of it having been
Always mentioned
But it needs to be seen.

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Leisure

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

- W. H. Davis

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How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Future Dreams

Sometimes I wish that I'd stop thinking of you
To work on myself and on my future too.
But I want you to be a part of that future
So we can live and grow old together.
I don't want to ever be alone
Even if that may never be shown.
I really, really want 'us' to exist
And the reasons why make up a long list.

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Talked Too Much

I knew I shouldn't have
Opened up to you at all.
I knew I shouldn't have
Spread my plans like they're wings.

I wanted to be one
Who acts, not speaks aloud.
I wanted to be one
Whose work and plans are unknown.

I should be telling you
Later, when it's all done.
I should be telling you
When you ask if it's true.

Now, I ask myself if
It is too late to try.
Now, I ask myself if
I really can do it.

#anotherworldpoem #random #feeling

Watch how the men wait for all the children and women to go down first and how they run up to help bring more people down. They know the risks, but still stick to their morals. 💔

What's worse, is they're still trying to figure out what's being bombed, where the danger lies, and what that would mean for them as a hospital. It's disgusting how a hospital's water reserve is what's being bombed seeing as how important and needed it is in their field.

His hello warmed the heart,
his goodbye left it aching.

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I know it's been over a month since I last wrote a poem. And I was supposed to do 'Poem a Day' that month...

But rest assured, I did not forget you all loves 🤗 and I'm back with our annual end of year poem! 😉

And this time, as an apology, it's coming an hour earlier than usual. (Not that it'll actually make up for all the poems I missed... 🫣)

2024

Another year has now passed by us all,
Filled with its ups and downs, we’re left to haul
A summary of all that has passed us,
For us to prepare for what’s left before us.
A new year with new hopes and expectations,
Hoping for improvements in certain situations.
Keep the Middle East in your prayers:
The wars wage on; there’s no stop to their tears
Although Syria can finally breathe
As we’ve reached the end of Assad’s regime.

This is the year the world reached for the skies
We saw potential from Space X’s tries
To create a reusable rocket.
China, with rocks from the moon, filled their pockets,
To study them on Earth. Unlike those rocks,
NASA’s astronauts faced a few blocks
As they could not return home and remain
Up in the ISS as NASA strains
To fix this mess and bring them back down home.

This year was also pretty political…
Someone attempted to assassinate Trump
Only for him to miss by millimetres
And for Trump to become President Trump.
A moment gone down as historical.
You’d think that was it, no more drama…
Except he’s also a convicted fraudster
As well as America’s new leader...

The billionaire Elon Musk made history
Being the first to reach the victory
Of being worth more than 400 billion!
His dear X was banned by the Brazilians
For a month, over misinformation
concerns. Now, he’s part of the government
As if his power was not already enough.

The wars keep raging all over the world.
Russia’s bombs at Ukraine are still hurled,
Israel’s attacking AND playing the victim
But the ICC now sees the real victim:
It has called Israel an illegal state
Finally writting Netanyahu’s fate.

Natural disasters have also occurred,
So, of course, humanity was stirred.
With deadly floods in the East of Spain
And in the US, hurricane Helene,
It was only right to help them out.

It was quite the summer that we all had!
Watching the Paris Olympics, we were glad
Of the thrill of the competition
As we supported our countries’ magicians.

We saw the hundred and fiftieth birthday
Of art in the impressionist style’s way.
That’s 150 years of Monet!

Twenty-twenty-four was a leap year -
One where we saw an eclipse nice and clear.

Now, the sun sets on 2024.

#anotherworldpoem #edited #newyear

Ceasefire Agreement Has Been Officially Reached in Gaza.

التوصل لوقف إطلاق النار رسميا في غزة

Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire in Gaza Strip.

اهالي غزة يحتفلون بوقف إطلاق النار في القطاع

Following the announcement of a ceasefire agreement, an Israeli air strike bombed a home in Gaza city.

بعد إعلان وقف إطلاق النار مباشرة ، طيران الاحتلال يقصف منزل في مدينة غزة

It wasn't even a day after the ceasefire and they're already at it again 🤦

How long do you reckon it'll be before it's back to being a full blown war? 🤔

Unfinished

There is a poem for me to read,
There is a second one written later on.
There is a journey for me to tread
There is a path for me to follow.
There is a story to be told,
There is a past that was almost forgotten
There is a change, so large and dark,
There is a life that feels far away.
There is a war that had to be fought
There is...

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