From time to time
I journey backwards
It is my way of remembering.
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Because if we can be silenced when it comes to Ahmadis, then we can be silenced when it comes to Shias, we can be silenced when it comes to women, we can be silenced when it comes to dress, we can be silenced when it comes to entertainment, and we can even be silenced when it comes to sitting by ourselves, alone in a room, afraid to think what we think.

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Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak
To the earnest love that laid the swale in rows,
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But do you really think, Gardener,
that I didn’t notice how often you nuzzled the wisteria?

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I will reveal
you who I am.
I am your reflection
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Darwish has many poems that are considered very strong, but I have always thought the poem he wrote to his mother is one of the strongest poems ever written for a mother. In this poem Mother is used as a metaphor for his homeland, for Palestine.
He starts the poem with a very iconic subject in Middle Eastern culture: Bread.
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But the things are different,
because it happened different
I had moved to a place far from our garden
I have left my moon on the other side of the sky
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If I were damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o’ mine, 0 mother o’ mine!
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Eat Not Thy Mind is a piece of art. A collage by Claude Pelieu on the front cover and a foreward written by friend and bass spanker Mike Watt. This book comprises of 18 contemporary poems by the Outlaw Poet that is Charley Plymell who was known to have rubbed elbows with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassidy and William Burroughs.
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a.d. winans is a native San Francisco poet and the former editor and publisher of Second Coming. He is the author of fifty books and chapbooks of poetry. His work has been published in nine languages. In 2006 he was awarded a PEN National Josephine Miles award for excellence in literature. In 2009 PEN Oakland presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
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The dictionary brain
once containing the
darkest secrets of humanity
suddenly bursts like a bubble
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New York, March 30—The Academy of American Poets announced today that Carl Adamshick has been selected by the poet Marvin Bell as the recipient of the 2010 Walt Whitman Award.
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a part of a body of people
separated breath by breath,
a soft curve of a comma?
How different from the exclamation
Who do you think you are!


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I feel so ripe
As if, I was just born from that tall tree in the garden.
I even feel leafy
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To everyone celebrating Nowruz around the world, may you have a peaceful and prosperous new year.......
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