Creative Expression

  • Poem: GRACEFUL ROSEBAY ~ A TRIBUTE TO GAZA

    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 Read more

  • Poem: BLEEDINGS OF THE PRESENT

    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 Read more

  • Poem: VACANT TOLERANCE

    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 Read more

  • Poem: WORDS LEFT BEHIND

    Poem: WORDS LEFT BEHIND

    ‘Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.”‘ ~ John Greenleaf Whittier Read more

  • Poem: THE SLEEPING POET AWAKENS

    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 Read more

  • Poem: TO FALL IN LOVE

    Poem: TO FALL IN LOVE

    ‘Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.’ ~ Albert Camus Read more