Poetry
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Start looking past the Surface:
Don’t assume that I’m a Rapper, just because I wear Jeans & a T-Shirt. Don’t just look at the length of my beard and just think I’m out of work. Please…do not assume that, because the country I am from sounds exotic, I can fly a magic-carpet. Why do you judge people you do not Continue reading
Activism, Community-Service, Culture, Islam & Activism, Muslim Writers, Muslims & Activism, Poetry, Religion, Religious-Racism, Sarcasm, Self-Discovery, Self-Empowerment, Self-Therapy, Social-Awareness, Writing, Youth-EmpowermentAssume, Assumption, Bias, Cultures, Differences, Discrimination, Ethnic-Bias, Ethnic-Discrimination, Ethnicities, Etnicity, Humanity, Immigration, Islamophobia, Judgment, National Security, Prejudgment, Prejudice, Presume, Presumption, Racism, Religions, Skin Deep, Special, Superficial, Superficiality, Surface, Terrorism, Uniqueness, Unity, Xenophobia -
The Opera of Obscurity
My yearning for Isolation: I wish I were still in the womb. I’d like to call it my birth-tomb. It is just like a Cocoon, in it I am wrapped inside. Divorced from the world, my perfect way to hide. Protected, unjudged, allowed to be free, and unplugged. No one’s here to disturb or mock Continue reading
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My Love-Letter to the one who refuses to love me back:
I’m not in despair, and I no longer care. You really didn’t want me at all anyway. I now see who you really are, it’s clear. You just wanted to pass the time of day. You knew in your heart that you didn’t want me; but, you kept it going. You already had it in Continue reading
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The Muslims need Self-Representation!!!
I’m takin’ back my voice!!! Don’t speak for me. I’m a man and free. My religion doesn’t give hatemongers the credence to silence me. Having a beard is not a license to detain me, for an hour or three. My Arabic tongue shouldn’t be a reason to be doomed, living a life of the falsely-accused. Continue reading
Activism, Community-Service, Culture, Domestic-Violence, Global Politics, Islam & Activism, Muslim Student Association, Muslim Writers, Muslims & Activism, Muslims at College, Poetry, Political-Awareness, Religion, Religious-Racism, Sarcasm, Self-Discovery, Self-Empowerment, Self-Therapy, Social-Awareness, U.S. Politics, Writing, Youth-Empowerment -
Gareth Bryant’s Keys to Happiness:
Having hope in what we can’t yet see. Appreciation, for all of what could be. Patience, upon all the many tests which lie ahead. Piety, always ensuring that your heart isn’t dead. Incorporating respect & love in your daily-routine. Never become ungrateful, nor treat people mean. Educate others about Allah’s mercy & respite. Set an Continue reading
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My Transition from Boy to Man
I was once a Boy: I used to be a boy. My life was a toy. I would take things lightly, and shun responsibility, but that was clearly in the past. Pursuing the fleeting and worthless pleasures, you think you want, really never last. I used to think of myself as the “ladies’-man”; I arrogantly Continue reading
Activism, Community-Service, Culture, Islam & Activism, Muslim Writers, Poetry, Religion, Sarcasm, Self-Discovery, Self-Empowerment, Self-Therapy, Social-Awareness, Writing, Youth-EmpowermentAggression, Allah, Arrogance, Boy, Chastisement, Cynical, Cynicism, Deception, Ego, Forward, Games, Growing, Growing Up, Hate, Humbleness, Humility, Learning, Lessons, Life, Love, Man, Maturity, Moving On, Past, Present, Pride, Progress, Progression, Punishment, Reality, Resentment, Tests, Trials, True Love -
My thoughts on Autumn:
Author’s note: At the beginning of each season this year (according to the Gregorian-Calendar), I plan to release a poem about each season-I’ve written several poems about the seasons, particularly the four classic temperate seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Each of these seasons represents different stages of existence, in this Material-Existence of ours, Continue reading
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My thoughts on Myanmar (formerly known as Burma)
Author’s note: The following poem is about the recent string of violent religious & ethnic-cleansing episodes, in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), which have barely been reported, on any major news circuits, to the extent that it needs to be. Myanmar has lost its way: My homeland, once peaceful, has become a breeding-ground for religious Continue reading
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I’m goin’ L.A.M.B.!!!
Author’s note: This poem is dedicated to my new personal-phrase, “I’m goin’ LAMB”, which is an acronym for L.ivin’ life to the fullest A.nd M.akin’ moves like a B.oss. I recently came up with this phrase, as a parody of the Jay-Z & Kanye West song, “H.A.M.”. And, since, as a Muslim, pork is Islamically Continue reading
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My thoughts on the 4th of July:
Author’s Note: July 4th-Weekend is where people put up their American flags, on their home doors, front lawns, windows, and/or cars & have day-long BBQ’s in their backyards, or go to beaches, celebrating the commemoration of how American Colonists stood against the British Crown & resisted tyranny. I would just like to present this poem, Continue reading
Activism, Africa, Asia, Community-Service, Culture, Domestic-Violence, Economy, Famine, Global Economy, Global Politics, Haiti, Horn of Africa, Islam & Activism, Libya, Muslim Student Association, Muslim Writers, Muslims & Activism, Muslims at College, Poetry, Political-Awareness, Religion, Religious-Racism, Sarcasm, Self-Discovery, Self-Empowerment, Self-Therapy, Social-Awareness, Somalia, U.N.-Relief, U.S. Economy, U.S. Politics, United Nations, Wall Street, Writing, Youth-Empowerment3/5th Compromise, 4th of July, 4th of July Weekend, 9-11, American Colonies, American independence, American Revolution, Black Wall Street, Black-Codes, COINTELPRO, Declaration of Independence, Drug-Trade, Economic-Sanctions, Federal Bailouts, Fugitive Slave Act, Global-Domination, Independence Day, Indian Removal Act, Indian-Wars, Iraq, JFK Assassination, Jim Crow, July 4th, July 4th Weekend, Latin America, Manifest-Destiny, Middle East, Monroe Doctrine, Red-Scare, Revolutionary War, Shadow-Governments, Shadow-Rulers, Slavery, Vietnam, War On Terror, War-on-Drugs, World-Domination