EXCUSE FOR MY CURRENT BAD POETRY

These are inferior

poems for an inferior

time; let them be,

they are signs of

life, that the tree

stump still lives.

29.02.2024

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WE HAVE THE PAST

The past is where our hopes

flourish, where the tomorrow

brightly beckons; the past

is our golden land, where

spring to summer turns.

While here, in this fleeting

moment, the mind turns

to what has been and

the promises that

never came true.

29.02.2024

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20 PEOPLE KILLED BY ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES IN A MASSACRE IN GAZA

Israel killed Palestinian journalist

Motasem Dalloul's pregnant

wife and 3-year-old son yesterday

during a massacre in Gaza Strip.

The 'Western' press ignores

this, just like it ignored when

he was wounded by Israel's

occupation forces' sniper

while covering the Great Return

March in May 2018.

Ignoring, hiding what happens,

is the 'Western' press' preferred

way of doing journalism

when it comes Apartheid

Israel's war crimes.

29.02.2024

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TODAY IN ISRAELI OCCUPIED PALESTINE

Each day news of children starving

to death in Gaza; each day talk of

'a hostage deal'. Only occupation

soldiers, inhabitants of segregated

Apartheid communities matter,

taken as prisoners of war. Not

the Hares Boys, not Samer Issawi,

wrong ethnicity, wrong religion,

they're victims and occupied, not

oppressors and colonialists.

One hundred, two hundred

killed each day, yet only

'hostages, hostages'. There

are 9000 Palestinian hostages

in Israeli occupation prisons,

5.3 million under military boot.

But they are subhuman, unworthy

- only the fallen lords of Apartheid,

bombed by their own, matter

to the 'West' in its decrepit old age.

28.02.2024

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FALLING

The days fall towards the distant

spring, the light grows yet gray.

The winter endures, solitude

between birth of light and dark.

The hours, bare of life, raise

their grim branches against

the dim dawn and dusk.

The night embraces, the night

gives release, hiding stars

distant and close.

28.02.2024

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TWEETING THE GENOCIDE

I eat black bread with coffee

at midnight and tweet about

people who haven't eaten

for days, children who starve

to death. I know how it

feels to be hungry, to

have not eaten for days.

But that was a choice.

Now millions are starved

because their oppressors

want to punish them

for their fighters daring

to attack their enslavers,

the lords of Apartheid

in their military bases

and their segregated

plantations, their city

built on the ruins

of an ethnically

cleansed village.

People are starved

because freedom

and liberty are only

for the oppressors,

for those who can

carry out a genocide.

28.02.2024

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AT MIDNIGHT

I'll make another pot of coffee

at midnight, in the heart

of the winter, at the whimpering

end of the exploding world,

I sit before the computer

seeing the dead, translating

words, drinking my coffee

dark like the night, dark

like the world we made.

28.02.2024

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THE LESSON THE 'WEST' HAS TOLD TO THE WORLD ABOUT ITSELF

1

38 000 people killed by Apartheid Israel

in occupied Palestine's Gaza Strip

matter less to the 'West'

than one Hard-Right Russian politician

imprisoned and killed by

an another Hard-Right Russian politician.

2

15 000 dead Palestinian children

murdered by the Israeli regime

in destroyed Gaza are less worthy

in the eyes of the 'West'

than one Hard-Right Russian

politician slain by an another one.

3

This is the lesson the 'West'

has told to the world about itself.

27.02.2024

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IN THE DESERT OF SOLITUDE

The ashes of lust are cold,

flesh lies shrivelled on the aching

bones, the mind that dreamed

and the hands that touched

fabulous, quivering flesh,

are withered. Time has

taken back its gifts that

drove the fool to his fate.

22.-27.02.2024

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WALKING WITH NEFFI

To Nefer

Old friends are saying goodbyes,

not understanding it themselves,

with every tired step they take,

the early turning back they want

us to take. They are leaving,

they are tired, their days

long content sleep on the sofa.

And we are left with the memory

of days that were. The long

years that fall short in our yearning.

19.-22.02.2024

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A HUNDRED IN A DAY

The German Chancellor told the press

that Israel can't be committing a genocide

because Germany asked it to respect

human rights and laws of war.

While he uttered this claim - like

a little, simple boy in the guise

of a man and a politician - Israel

butchered several civilians,

a hundred in a day,

22.02.2024

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RAFAH

The torn body of a child,

hanging from a wall,

one of two hudred

murdered by Israel,

and the 'West' goes

on about 'hostages'

from segregated

communities, while

never caring about

the Hares Boys,

ten years imprisoned

and tortured.

13.02.2024

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PALESTINE'S GAZA AND THE 'WEST'

110 murdered in Rafah by Israel,

17 murdered in Deir al-Balah by Israel,

10 murdered in Khan Younis by Israel,

just during the last night,

and Germany and France

are on my social media timeline

claiming that armed

resistance is 'antisemitism'.

12.02.2024

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