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Feb-17-2014 12:14
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Be a Rose
Nahida Izzat Salem-News.comWash tears and fears with a glowing smile
Extend your hands, embrace a face.
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Held up softly, crushed or destroyed
In abundance it fills the ambiance
Never withhold what it contains
Every person you come by
Paths have crossed, wisdom unknown
Don’t let it pass or go to waste
Without a whisper, heart to heart
Spiky shells hide weary souls
Fragile and wounded throbbing in pain
Just like you, carries own load
Seeking retreat, hurting and cold
Wash tears and fears with a glowing smile
Extend your hands, embrace a face
Reassure with a tender gaze
Delight as you leave your scent behind
Brush your surrounds with your heavenly soul
Paint grey days with rainbows hues
lilac and mauve, violet and green
Red and amber, pink and blue
Scatter your pearls for all who seek
Sparkles of joy, boundless sublime
Awaken seeds of love, dormant inside
Watch barren hearts tremble and bloom
Be a rose
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“To smile when confronted with the most severe oppression, is an act of Resistance rooted in unparalleled beauty.”
~ Jonathan Azaziah
"And I, a Palestinian from occupied Palestine, refuse to sharemy homeland with Zionist colonizers"
~ Reham Alhelsi
"Facts" do NOT need laws to enforce, validate or defend them, what they require is research to examine their narrative and correct it for better accuracy and understanding.
“When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either cease being mistaken, or cease being honest.”
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Special thanks to Uprooted Palestinians
Nahida Izzat is a Jerusalem-born Palestinian refugee who has lived in exile for over forty two years, after being forced to leave her homeland at the tender age of seven in 1967, during the six-day war. She has a degree in mathematics, but art is one of her favorite pastimes. She loves hand-made things and so makes dolls, cards, and most of her own clothes. She also writes poetry, participates in written dialogues and believes in building bridges, not walls.
She started writing when her friends insisted she should write about her memories, experiences and feelings as a Palestinian.When she did it all came out sounding—she was told—like poetry! So she self-published two books: I Believe in Miracles, and Palestine the True Story.
Her dream is to return back home to a free and liberated Palestine.
If you like poetry and are intrigued by the notion of learning more about Palestine, you can visit Nahida's blog Poetry for Palestine for more of her writings; prose, poems, letters and dialogues.
You can write to Nahida : nahidaexiledpalestinian@gmail.
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