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NELSON MANDELA Now that you have flown far away Oh, sweet bird of the age I find the world  like an emptied place With only hollow men howling around Stealing the stock of defenseless souls  ...

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By Haris Silajdzic   That bloodstain on the forehead of posterity with bloodied palms you want to erase hope bloodied you gave them in bloodied nightmares to suffocate   Through bloodied soil you trudge in the...

It’s April The season of cherry blossoms Suddenly appearing everywhere All around A riot of subtle pink, burgundy and purple And apple blossom white And their sweet smell Mingles with every kind of magnolia Butterfly, yellow...

  When your favorite poems Fail to move you When your sacred verses Cannot elevate you When even The deadly modern drugs Do nothing to you And you are still left Wondering How to make sense...

A Little While A little boy playing with words a little voice crying for love a little love wasting for you the senseless patterns of the garden butterfly the insistent urgency of the army motorcycle all...

Haiku effects – In the sunset of my day   Alone on my way– friendless and foreign in the sunset of my day.   Solitude of the fight stretched over years and always—fading light.   A...

The purpose of life?   What is the purpose of life? why are we here? the answers are all around us the Greeks  aimed for happiness Aristotle even listed eleven virtues that would help achieve happiness he pointed to...

ON JUDGEMENT DAY  I wrote this poem for my daughter a decade ago. She now faces a serious medical situation. I request the reader to heed a father’s plea and offer a prayer for her recovery...

In the rooftop bar of Eaton DC, skeptical of attending a religious event, I didn’t know what to expect. When Nafisa Isa enthusiastically started introducing the program, people cheered and hollered. Sitting in the second row,...