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mayee, MD

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If I Were Another by Mahmoud Darwish

MAHMOUD DARWISH
If I Were Another
If I were another on the road, I would not have looked back, I would have said what one traveler said to another: stranger! awaken
the guitar more! Delay our tomorrow so our road may extend and space may widen for us, and we may get rescued from our story together: you are so much yourself. And I am so much other than myself right here before you!
If I were another I would have belonged to the road, so that neither I nor you would return. Awaken the guitar and we might sense the unknown and the route that tempts the traveler to test gravity. I am only
my steps, and you are both my compass and my chasm.
If I were another on the road, I would have hidden my emotions in the suitcase, so my poem would be of water, diaphanous, white,
abstract, and lightweight.stronger than memory, and weaker than dew drops, and I would have said: my abyss is this expanse!
If I were another on the road, I would have said to the guitar: teach me an extra string!

November 1, 2023 at 8:59 AM

mayee, MD

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14 genocide supporters
45 complicit cowards

List of countries that were in favor, against and abstained on the adoption of a humanitarian truce

120 in favor
45 abstained
14 against: Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Fiji, Guatemala, Hungary, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Tonga, USA

October 27, 2023 at 11:45 PM

mayee, MD

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The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

THE LAUGHING HEART
YOUR LIFE IS YOUR LIFE
DON'T LET IT BE CLUBBED INTO DANK SUBMISSION.
BE ON THE WATCH.
THERE ARE WAYS OUT.
THERE IS A LIGHT SOMEWHERE.
IT MAY NOT BE MUCH LIGHT BUT IT BEATS THE DARKNESS.
BE ON THE WATCH.
THE GODS WILL OFFER YOU CHANCES.
KNOW THEM.
TAKE THEM.
YOU CAN'T BEAT DEATH BUT
YOU CAN BEAT DEATH IN LIFE, SOMETIMES.
AND THE MORE OFTEN YOU LEARN TO DO IT, THE MORE LIGHT THERE WILL BE.
YOUR LIFE IS YOUR LIFE.
KNOW IT WHILE YOU HAVE IT.
YOU ARE MARVELOUS
THE GODS WAIT TO DELIGHT IN YOU.

October 27, 2023 at 1:34 PM

mayee, MD

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A poem by Kristina Mahr

Van Gogh's last words were,
"The sadness will last forever."
He, who knew the dark. He, who nonetheless painted stars within it.
And me, who knows it too. And me, who has nonetheless punched my fair share of holes within it and shone a flashlight through them and called them stars.
The sadness will not last forever.
I know because every day I bloody my knuckles
in the pursuit of something I might see by.
- KRISTINA MAHR -

October 23, 2023 at 12:29 AM

mayee, MD

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Arundhati Roy ⤵️

The Israeli occupation of Palestine and siege of Gaza is a crime against humanity. The US and other countries that support this occupation with money and weapons are party to that crime.
The horror we are witnessing right now - is a consequence of that crime.
No amount of commentary about the cruelty of this "war", no amount condemnation of the excesses committed by either side, no amount of false equivalence about the scale of those atrocities will lead to a solution.
The solution can only be an international intervention that calls for talks to end the occupation, to end this system of Apartheid. That alone will halt the cycle of horrible murders of Israeli citizens and the genocide of Palestinians
Arundhati Roy

October 22, 2023 at 7:20 AM

mayee, MD

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A poem by Ghassan Kanafani

I wish children didn't die.
I wish they would be temporarily elevated to the skies until the war ends.
Then they would return home safe, and when their parents would ask them, where were you? they would say, we were playing in the clouds.
- Ghassan Kanafani

October 22, 2023 at 2:48 AM

mayee, MD

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To Our Land by Mahmoud Darwish

To Our Land
To ourland.
and it is the one near the word of god,
a cesling of clouds.
To our land,
and it is the one far from the adjectives of nouns. the map of absence.
To our land,
and it is the one tiny as a sesame seed, a heavenly horizon... and a bidden chasm.
To our land,
and it is the one poor as a grouse's wings. holy books. and an identity wound.
To our land,
and it is the one surrounded with torn hills. the ambush ofa new past.
To our land, and it is a prize of war. the freedom to die from longing and burning and our land, in its bloodied night. is a jewel that glimmers for the far upon the far and illuminates what is outside it…
As for us, inside,
we suffocate more!

October 21, 2023 at 3:19 AM

mayee, MD

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A poem by Iain S. Thomas

If you must hurt each other, then hurt each other but do not hurt children, or the weak, or the frail, or the very old.
If you must hurt each other, then hurt each other but do not hurt those who do not want to fight, whose only sin is wanting a warm safe room, whose only sin is being born here, in the place where you want to hurt each other.
If you must hurt each other, then hurt each other, hurt each other, hurt each other until there is no one left to hurt each other anymore, and only children remain
- Iain S. Thomas

October 20, 2023 at 1:20 AM

mayee, MD

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A State of Siege by Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet

A STATE OF SIEGE
In a land preparing for its dawn, in a while
the planets will sleep in the language of poetry.
In a while
we will bid this hard road farewell, and ask: Where shall we begin?
In a while
we will warn the young mountain daffodils
their beauty will be eclipsed when our young women pass by.
*
I raise a glass
to those who share my vision of a butterfly's joyful iridescence in this interminable tunnel of night.
From 'State of Siege' by Mahmoud Darwish Translation by Sabry Hafez and Sarah Maguire

October 19, 2023 at 1:57 AM

mayee, MD

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Ang Patalim by Rio Alma

ANG PATALIM
(Para sa mga nasawî sa Gaza at Israel mula 7 Oktubre 2023)
Kailangan lang ng sinaunang poot, Bagong inggit,
At gahaman utak
Para malímot ko ang tamis ng prutas-Ang tamis ng mansanas man o bayabas
Na pinaghatian at pinagsaluhan-At maging kasangkapan ako
Sa pagsaksak sa dibdib ng tumututol at kaaway.
Ayoko ng digma;
Ngunit kailangan kong mandahas, Pumaslang, magwasak,
Sa ngalan ng kalayan, katarungan, Demokrasya, o anumang magandang katwiran Para magwagi ang poot, inggit, o pangangamkam.
RIO ALMA
11 Oktubre 2023

October 18, 2023 at 1:02 AM

mayee, MD

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Think of Others by Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish

Think of Others
As you prepare your breakfast, think of others (do not forget the pigeon's food).
As you wage 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 express 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).

October 17, 2023 at 6:30 AM

mayee, MD

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A poem by Nikita Gill

You are angry and anxious because you never agreed to live in a burning home while the people who should care pretend the fire doesn't exist.
Distress
is a valid emotional response to injustice.
- Nikita Gill

October 17, 2023 at 12:32 AM

mayee, MD

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I Come From There by Mahmoud Darwish

#FreePalestine

I Come From There
I come from there and I have memories
Born as mortals are, I have a mother And a house with many windows, I have brothers, friends,
And a prison cell with a cold window.
Mine is the wave, snatched by sea-gulls, Thave my own view,
And an extra blade of grass.
Mine is the moon at the far edge of the words, And the bounty of birds, And the immortal olive tree.
I walked this land before the swords
Turned its living body into a laden table.
I come from there. I render the sky unto her mother When the sky weeps for her mother.
And I weep to make myself known To a returning cloud.
I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood
So that I could break the rule.
I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland.....

October 15, 2023 at 1:45 PM

mayee, MD

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Palestine by Mahmoud Darwish

Palestine
This land gives us
all that makes life worth living:
April's blushing advances, the aroma of bread at dawn, a woman's haranguing of men, the poetry of Aeschylus, love's trembling beginning, moss on a stone
mothers dancing on a flute's thread
and the invaders' fear of memories.
This land give us
all that makes life worth living:
September's rustling end,
a woman leaving forty behind with her apricots, an hour of sunlight in prison, clouds reflecting swarms of insects,
a people's applause for those who laugh at their erasure, and the tyrant's fear of songs.
This land give us
all that makes life worth living:
Lady Earth, mother of all beginnings and endings,
She was called Palestine and she is still called Palestine.
My Lady, because you are my Lady, I deserve life.
Mahmoud Darwish

October 15, 2023 at 8:03 AM

mayee, MD

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Rest in Power Louise Glück

Autumn by Louise Glück

How heavy my mind is, filled with the past.
Is there enough room for the world to penetrate?
It must go somewhere,
it cannot simply sit on the surface-
Stars gleaming over the water.
The leaves piled, waiting to be lit.
Insight, my sister said.
Now it is here.
But hard to see in the darkness.
You must find your footing before you put your weight on it.
Louise Glück, "Autumn"
NEW YORKER

October 14, 2023 at 4:54 AM

mayee, MD

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In the midst of hate,
I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the midst of tears,
I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.
In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.
I realized, through it all, that...
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy.
For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me,
theres something stronger - something better, pushing right back.
Albert Camus

October 14, 2023 at 2:36 AM

mayee, MD

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IN THE MEANTIME
Tom Hirons
Meanwhile, flowers still bloom.
The moon rises, and the sun.
Babies smile and somewhere,
Against all the odds,
Two people are falling in love.
Strangers share cigarettes and jokes.
Light plays on the surface of water.
Grace occurs on unlikely streets And we hold each other fast
Against entropy, the fires and the flood.
Life leans towards living
And, while death claims all things at the end, There were such precious times between, In which everything was radiant And we loved, again, this world.

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October 12, 2023 at 1:11 AM

mayee, MD

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Love is not all by Edna St. Vincent Millar

$Love Is Not All Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain, Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink and rise and sink and rise and sink again. Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death even as I speak, for lack of love alone. It well may be that in a difficult hour, pinned down by need and moaning for release or nagged by want past resolution's power, I might be driven to sell your love for peace, Or trade the memory of this night for food. It well may be. I do not think I would. - Edna St. Vincent Millay$

October 11, 2023 at 3:33 AM