1948
| 1948 |
| BY LIMA A-AHMAD |
Blindfolded nightmares of opened floodgates and disillusioned fates 
drowned in that spring of 48’ I am drenched in regret as I try to accept that I am no longer home that it is I who is unknown in this world (more…) |
The Child and Her Diary
The Child and Her Diary
By: Laila Yaghi
She wrote in her diary every night
When bullets passed by her window… she wrote
When Israeli soldiers killed her mother she wrote
She wrote of the horrors she sees
And the nightmares of flames and destruction
She the Palestinian child
Writes in her diary every night
To ease her enormous pain
To sedate her fears and nightmares
That little Palestinian child
Had died while writing in bed
From Israelis bulldozing her home (more…)
A Poem for Gaza
A Poem for Gaza By Remi Kanazi
I never knew death until I saw the bombing of a refugee camp
Craters filled with disfigured ankles and splattered torsos
But no sign of a face, the only impression a fading scream
I never understood pain
Until a seven-year-old girl clutched my hand
Stared up at me with soft brown eyes, waiting for answers
But I didn’t have any
I had muted breath and dry pens in my back pocket
That couldn’t fill pages of understanding or resolution
In her other hand she held the key to her grandmother’s house
But I couldn’t unlock the cell that caged her older brothers
They said, we slingshot dreams so the other side will feel our father’s presence
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