I Admire This Poet So Much

Poetry

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Oh, Mother,

Death has awakened them in our hearts,

eternally alive

Like a flower blossoming from its own kernel,

rooted deeply in a lifetime’s blood.

Oh, Mother,

Those beloved faces have become

a luminous moon-halo,

stirring longing within my heart.

Through that glow

Its luminous rays reach,

Are there signs beneath the moonlight?

through which a wanderer reaches his destination,

Or perhaps trace footprints?

If only... I could ask.. mother!

or perhaps you ask the moon...

If only. if only

Younis Ali Jassim, as for the pen name by which he is famous, is Younis Ali Al-Hamdani.

He was born in 1970, in a village on the sides of the Little Zab, affiliated to the city of Dibs, Kirkuk, Iraq.

•Academic achievement: Graduate of Kirkuk Technical Institute - Department of Accounting.
•His most important talents: reading and swimming.
• The novel "The Perfume of Prairie Flowers" was published by the General Directorate of Cultural Affairs - Baghdad, 2013.
The novel was presented as part of the activities of Baghdad - the Capital of Arab Culture - a novel that talks about the gypsies in Iraq, through the protagonist who escapes from their caravan as a young boy, where the countryside, deserts and cities took him on a journey of loss in search of self, freedom and the history of his family and relatives.
His novel "Under the Angel's Wing" was published by Akd Publishing House - Cairo in 2015. It is a novel about the miraculous and the amazing, combining the reasonable and the unreasonable.
His most important novel, "Awniya Bread," was published by the Arab House of Sciences - Publishers - Lebanon in 2018. It tells the story of a village that symbolizes all the villages in Iraq that ate mercury-coated grains, which were distributed to farmers in the fall of 1971 to compensate for the drought that had afflicted them in previous seasons.
He published a poetry collection entitled "The Poem Has Another Shadow" by Austin Macauley Publishers, Sharjah, UAE, 2020.
His novel "The Wedding of the World" was published by Fadaat Publishing and Distribution House - Jordan, 2022.
• Dozens of his poems have been published in newspapers and magazines, in Iraq and other Arab countries as well as on social media, such as the Iraqi Critic website, Mai Ziadeh Literary Salon, Al-Najwa website, Zahrat Al-Ibdaa Wal-Fikr website, the Lebanese Agarid magazine, and... Etc.
•The novel "The World Has Seven Souls" was published by Dar Al-Hekma - London in 2023.