“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” — Dr. Maya Angelou {Featured photo: “Prelude to Revolution” completed during Women’s History Month & Ramadan, 2024) Dear Fellow Warrior: It has been a while again, and for that I am sorry. I meant to write…
Poetry
This space will consist of my original poems from my earlier years and potentially recent additions….as well as those from my favorite poets!
Your Silence Speaks…
Featured Photo: “Can You Hear Us” painted on Christmas Day, December 25, 2023, inspired by the Tunisian Artist Omar Esstar’s “Scream from Gaza.” Dear Fellow Warrior, This poem addresses the deafening silence towards the genocide of our Palestinian brothers and sisters, which we have witnessed in the past nearly three months. It was cathartic to…
“From the River to the Sea” – A Poem for Palestine
Dear Fellow Warrior, The past seven weeks have been rough. At this moment of reflection, I wanted to share this poem I wrote and a painting I just made for Palestine, connected to the statement: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free.” What this phrase signifies is the lifting of the siege,…
Just Another Ode to Pakistan… From an ABCD
Dear Fellow Warriors, I wrote this piece a few months ago, and I have been meaning to share it for a while now. Just mustering up the courage, because it may be slightly embarrassing and exposing perhaps, and imposter syndrome can always make it worse. But I am someone who remains an open book nonetheless,…
“A Suicide Note” #1
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca “A Suicide Note” #1 A much-delayed, “Trigger Warning.” ….. The sweetest sound can be your name. So “They” say. Straddling a stool at a bar… Alone…Forbidden… For me?… So “They” say. Disguised as a ‘perfect stranger’ in an “anthropological experiment.” So “You” say……
The Lady in the Rickshaw
Dear Fellow Warrior, I wanted to share a poem with you. I think the poet suppressed within me is gradually returning. Perhaps I deprived that part of me through my graduate studies. It had been silenced and it is trying so hard to emerge when I keep telling it to wait, wait, wait, until I…
The Radical Brown “Damsel in Distress”
“Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.” – Archbishop Desmond Tutu Dear Fellow Warrior, Following the previous poem I posted a few weeks earlier, “I wrote a poem on 2020,”in this post I share that specific poem that I wrote in my…
I wrote a poem on 2020…
Dear Fellow Warrior, I wrote this poem about a poem that I wrote about 2020. 🙂 There might be a moment where I share that poem as well. But here is the poem I wrote about it. 🙂 Here is a quote to inspire you in your courageous act of writing… It is the quote…