13Apr2024April 13, 2024If I must live cathy2024-04-13T17:28:44+00:00If I must live / You must see / The resistant one you taught me to beTala HerzallahPoems Read more...
02Apr2024April 2, 2024Remembering Samar cathy2024-04-02T19:39:41+00:00“I wish I were that drowning sun,” / you told me, / “tightly embracing the horizon, / flying into the abyss of freedom.” Qasem Waleed El-FarraPoems Read more...
02Mar2024March 2, 2024What if? cathy2024-03-28T14:13:30+00:00Pages of history drip with my blood / and my grandfather’s tears / for his murdered olive tree.Basman DerawiPoems Read more...
18Feb2024February 18, 2024A child should never die cathy2024-02-18T14:38:30+00:00A child should play, laugh, giggle / Call mom to make breakfast / Throw himself into grandfather’s arms / And liveSalaheldin EleyanPoems Read more...
17Feb2024February 17, 2024God calls me again cathy2024-02-17T17:20:39+00:00I ask God, How are you? / I am sad, of course, he says.Basman DerawiPoems Read more...
02Feb2024February 2, 2024Tunnel for Hamas cathy2024-02-12T15:15:06+00:00The ant wishes she could build her home/ at the top of a tall tree/ so no one would mistake it / as a tunnel for Hamas.Basman DerawiPoems Read more...
14Jan2024January 14, 2024Good news comes for Eman cathy2024-01-14T17:23:12+00:00She will spend time again / with her family without seeing the shadow / of their death reflected on the curtains. Basman DerawiPoems Read more...
10Jan2024January 10, 2024At the door of Jannah cathy2024-01-10T12:41:36+00:00Today, Essa welcomes Ouda / at the door of Jannah.Basman DerawiPoems Read more...
07Jan2024January 7, 2024O Lord, guide me through the darkness cathy2024-02-13T21:38:01+00:00Migrant, refugee, displaced / my ID bears brutal chapters / I did not choose to writeHaya Abu NasserPoems Read more...