Voices Journey through the Silence. A Poem
Absence can’t lend its ear to violence
Even voices journey through the silence …
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Poem.
A Slow Procession. Verse from a Poem
We cannot own ourselves, nor each other,
nor the momentary fragrance of a flower. …
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Don’t Hold Back. A Poem
Do stand up, take a risk
no cost to those around,
a hero walks inside,
release is then unbound. …
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IN JERUSALEM. A Poem by Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s national poet
In Jerusalem
In Jerusalem, and I mean within the ancient walls,
I walk from one epoch to another without a memory
to guide me. The prophets over there are sharing
the history of the holy … ascending to heaven
and returning less discouraged and melancholy, because love
and peace are holy and are coming to town. …
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This is ‘2021.’ Ah, 21 years since the start of the New Millennium. Are we coming of age?
In 1999, the two authors of Prayers for a Thousand Years invited me to contribute a piece to their book. It is now 2021. Plenty of countries say their young people come of age at 21.
Writers worldwide wrote prayers, gave blessings, comments, wrote stories and gave poetic utterances. …
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