While – Poem
By Barki Majid - Oujda As usual I stray, The unusual is that with reality I could play. While roaming, actions were precipitating, It's a movie and everybody was acting, Drama, fiction, comedy,...
View ArticleAn Epistle To My Unborn Child
By Youssef Boudarka RABAT I have long thought, my youthfu' son Of the callous deeds of this life None shall reach your elite soul If you stand still, future warrior ! Leaves of my life grown of...
View ArticleWhat Words to Choose? – Poem
RABAT What words are there left for me To tell you how I feel When you have selected all the nicest ones And converted them by pure magic Into a stream of love and affection That flows majestically...
View ArticleThe Wrath of God – Poem
SOUSSE, Tunisia Pouring rain is mightier than ever Till verdure is to fade and sever Snow is the reminder of peace I've never heard a thunder so fierce Distaste is a needle for to pierce The flesh of...
View ArticleYour Love is my Season – Poem
SOUSSE, Tunisia I woke up in a cold end of winter, In the early morning of a chilling season Fortified myself for I am eager to see your love eyes As I yearned for to see the sincerest smile ever in...
View ArticleBlissful Ignorance – Poem
RABAT I thought that maybe someday I could touch your soul with my words But my syllables in their otherness carried no further than my lips My alien sentences had no human content apparently, they...
View ArticleA Dream – Poem
By Youssef Boudarka - Rabat I have a dream; I dare not to dream, I am a crippled man, indeed. To my deprived self, I pray. Son of time, but they. I shall not dream once more; To this broken flower;...
View ArticleDisillusionment – Poem
By Otman Boukhzar - Tetouan Nothing pleases me Everything looks so dark and obscure I am no longer feeling glad and secure I have lost any interest in everything around me Deep inside I feel a plot...
View ArticleDiaries of Someone Devastated – Poem
Tunisia, Sousse It was yesterday .. When I cried just before I saw you As if you heard me when I called you To finally say goodbye to you Before I'll lengthen that distance between us I tasted your...
View ArticleLost Memories – Poem
Rabat, Morocco I may have lost my memories, I grant you that I might have lost my hair, I grant you also that But I have not lost my human congenial defect Of loving people for their giggles, sweet...
View ArticleThe Frost between us – Poem
Tunisia, Sousse Forever forlorn the heart if ever tethered to another Forever shrinking with no release of blood For it , earthly love , needs crawling to seek survival Farewell my full-fledged bird;...
View ArticleIs it late now?
Tunis- Is it late now? To wake up and clean one's heart from old and new feelings of defeat, to look back one last time at your past and see what could have been done but never done and what way could...
View ArticleSealed Demise – Poem
Tunis - Tunisia Wake up. It feels like an eternity since you drew those curtains down. Look around you, child. Your sun has set down and your stars have ceased to shine. Your flames have laid frozen on...
View ArticleMomentous Truth – Poem
Regueb, Tunisia Looking at them carefully Makes me grow sea sick But I try to calm my soul and spirit with songs and hymns Of Love and Freedom gone. The cold streets of the city And the arising fears I...
View ArticleThe Last speech – Poem
Tunis, I feel so lonely As you’re not with me I feel so lonely Left with some memory. ***** I’m singing under the rain To forget some of my pain, To remember all we have done Yet everything has...
View ArticleColour blind: In memoriam of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, 1918 – 2013
Rabat- After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on...
View ArticleMadiba is gone but we are holding the ground – Poem
Rabat Helicopters whirring overhead I ran down the corridor of City Hall, Looking for a window to peek out of I have landed In the reception committee The crowd outside screams With anticipation and...
View ArticleThe Rainy Mountain – Poem
Tunis - On the top of it And down to the river The rain drops Are carefully falling. Around, everything Looks up in wonder The mountain too But always up amazing Never has it looked down, Before, now...
View ArticleThe revolting voice – Poem
By Kaouthar Ait Ali - Al Hocima, I've heard a rageous noise, Of the free people's voice, I've witnessed a courageous fight, Where there is no light, ******* The wild stubborn ambition, Of a powerful...
View ArticleSpring is coming despite winter – Poem
Tunis When, On an equal footing, Sadness is fought And happiness sought With both solitary And collective spirits And based on shared Love and understanding, ******* Beauty and Truth Will certainly...
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