Category: Poetry
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Poem: GRACEFUL ROSEBAY ~ A TRIBUTE TO GAZA
‘You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.’ ~ William Wilberforce
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Poem: BLEEDINGS OF THE PRESENT
‘History is important. If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.’ ~ The Late Howard Zinn
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Poem: VACANT TOLERANCE
‘Malicious generalisations about Islam have become the last acceptable form of denigration of foreign culture in the West; what is said about the Muslim mind, or character, or religion, or culture as a whole cannot now be said in mainstream discussion about Africans, Jews, other Orientals, or Asians.’ ~ The Late Edward Said
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Poem: WORDS LEFT BEHIND
‘Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.”‘ ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
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Poem: THE SLEEPING POET AWAKENS
‘Truly in the heart there is a void that cannot be removed except with the company of ALLÂH ﷻ . . .’ ~ Imām Ibnu Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah رضي الله عنه
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Poem: TO FALL IN LOVE
‘Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.’ ~ Albert Camus
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Poem: FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY
‘Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.’ ~ Suzy Kassem
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Poem: THE ULTIMATE TRUTH
{It is HE Who created life and death to test which of you is BETTER in Deed}
Skilful White Clouds (RABAB Maher) 