On The Rugged Borders Of Poetry

I have renounced the dull affiliations.

I’m searching for a new adventure.

I shook off my prejudices.

I burned the old novels.

My steps toward the unknown tomorrow are a river

Overcoming the stubborn rock of yesterday.

The gates of the city are behind my back.

I do not turn, and a fierce storm rages.

And I go, then I go, then I go on

To the distant gateway of the soul.

Secret Action

In her first book, First-Class Romance, the author Shahnaaz presents a captivating narrative through her brilliant and emotional poems. She weaves a love story with human and natural themes, where one loves and everyone else searches for it, yet simultaneously flees from it due to a mysterious fear embedded within.

One duel can be seen as the question of fear, but three duels represent an attempt to ignore! This is met with the outrage of an enlightened society regarding such behavior.

The behavior of loving the same sex and others is a matter that frightens us to the point of burying our emotions, leading to the resolution of conflict and the building of family alliances through marriage.

Regardless of the party involved, love is rejected, and expressing it would cause the lover to lose their land and possessions.

Tears Of The Nile

From the heart of Sudan’s revolution, a land deeply ingrained in the poet’s soul, emerges a collection of poetry adorned with the verdant hues of nature and the unwavering resilience of stone. Tears of the Nile is a testament to the power of words, born at the intersection of classical Arabic and the vibrant spoken dialect, on the banks of the mighty Nile.

As the poet’s heart ignites with the embers of language, it simultaneously illuminates and sears, casting a radiant glow upon the verses that flow forth. This collection embarks on a voyage through the realm of meaning, navigating the tempestuous waves of rhyme until both the Nile and the reader are moved to tears.

Within these pages, love and longing intertwine in an intricate dance. At times, the poems sway to the melodies of affection, like clouds heavy with the promise of flirtatious rain. In other moments, they are shrouded in the ache of abandonment and the pangs of yearning.

Moaning Of M

I have always believed that poetry is nothing but a mass of feelings and emotions that are scattered.

Here is my joy… My sadness and longing… Here is my inspiration and my wailing…

Here is Noah Meem, a collection of poetic thoughts in classical and colloquial Arabic.

Evening Tales

زِدْ صــــــــــــــدَّك عــــــــــــــنّـــــــــــي وقُــــــــــــلْ لــــــــــــــيكـيف حالك وإنتَ عني غايب؟
تــــعـــــنّـــيــــت لــــدربــــك والــــقــــطــــيـــعـــــةبــــحــــقّـــي مـــــا هـــــي مـــن الـــــغــــرايـــــب
غــــــبـــــــنـــــــتــــــــنــــــي وســـــــــوّيــــــــت فـــــــيــــــنــــيشــــــــي.. مـــــــــن الـــــــــــعــــــــــجـــــــــــايـــــــــــــــــــــــــــب!
دفَّـــــــــــعـــــــتـــــــــــنـــــــي قـــــــــيــــــمــــــة هــــــجــــــركوكــــفّــــلــــتــــنــــي كُــــلّ الـــــــضّـــــــرايـــــــــــــــــب
يــــا صــــــــاحـــــــــبــــي فــــكّــــنــــي مــــن شــــرّهـــجــرك ومــن كــثــر الـــمـــصــايـــب
يـكــفــيــنــي طـــيـــفــــك بــــلـــيــلـــة قــمـــرةهـــــــذِي غـــنــــاتــــي عـــزّ الــــطــــــــــلايــــب
الــــبـــــارحـــــة نــــتــــســــامــــر بــــالــــوصــــلوالــــيــــوم مــــا ظِـــــنِّــــنــــا حــــبـــــــــــــايــــــــــــــب
خــــــلِّــــــي الــــــــلــــــي راح بـــس بــــســــألــــككـيف حالك وأنت عنِّي غايب؟

My Style

In this book, I relied on a careful reading of different poetic models and poets from across the Arabian Peninsula, and made sure that the language of the book was simple and smooth.

I started from this research to extract a poetic theory that deals with beautiful situations, such as joy, sadness, love, anger, and others, which contribute to clarifying my goal in writing poetry.

I also hope that this book will provide me with an addition to the field of poetry.

A Cry Of Conscience And A Heartbeat

I see you and marvel

You are the sky

And fragrance and sweetness

A fountain of giving

So how can I live without you?!

For you are magic

And from you comes splendor

Your eyes are the morning

Invaded by the dawn

Spreading light at dusk

Stream Of Thought

I started this saga in 2004, scribbling my thoughts on observations, memory, or incident triggers, and how I see myself within it. These 50 poems explain the liveliness of poetry in our daily lives. We enter the mystery of hopes and fears, life and death, relations we adore, romance and friendship, funny and sad, cloud and snow, autumn, winter, rain, mystery - all in a collection of a book of poetry. I hope you enjoy reading and relating them as much as I liked writing them.

The Pen Says

حروفي هذه ما هي إلَّا بِضعة أَسْطُرٍ مِن حكاياتٍ تَجُولُ وتتحرَّك في أَعيُن أناسٍ قد ظهَرَتْ معاناتهم. وأنا أكتبُ وأُسطِّرُ ما قرأتُ، ورأيت في أعماق نظراتهم المعبِّرة، في كلِّ قصَّة أكتُبُها أشعُر بما يمكِن أنْ يكونَ مِحْوَرُها قد شعَر به، وأُسَطِّرُهُ لعلَّه يكونُ هناك شخصٌ شبيه بِمِحوَر تلكَ القصة، ويعلَم أنَّ هناك وصفاً لمشاعره. إنني لا أكتب عن نفسي؛ فلا يحقُّ لي ذلك، إنما أكتبُ عَن قصصٍ أثارَت فضولي وإعجابي. كلماتي ما هيَ إلَّا مشاعِرَ وأحاسيس، فإن أردتُّم فَهْمَ القلوبِ عَن طريقِ ألسنةِ الأقلام.. فمرحباً بكم بين حروفي.

Passionate Love

Our story was the most beautiful tale, is it not true that everything has an end?"

"You were my one and only dream, the one I always prayed the universe to keep. But fate played its game... it brought us together in a minute, then kept us apart for years. We can't overlook your actions that went beyond the heart and shattered its peace."

"How did we drift apart? How did the distances become our comfort after being our torment?"

"How did love fade between us?"

"I do not know, but the book will answer for me."

"Here are my feelings."

"Here is my joy and sorrow, my comfort and ease."

"Here is my breaking and withering, my ailment and remedy."

"Here are the harsh blows and disappointments of harsh love."

"Here are messages and emotions I couldn't muster the courage to express."

"Here is the self-esteem of a lover, infatuated in love."

"Here is the music of love and the painful melody of parting."

"Here is my love."

No Wounds Left To Sing

Friends constantly asked the author for advice as though she is a relationship expert. Although she is far from it, she decided to portray the emotions numerous females experience and the discoveries that shone at the end of their tunnels through poetry and prose. The author hopes her words would offer burning wounds a soothing balm, until no wounds are left to sing.

This book is a reminder for all women in search of a remedy after heartbreak to stay strong. It is a sequence of musings that could find its events unfolding in any woman’s life. It is an overview from the chapters of romantic relationships and an acknowledgment of all its seasons, starting from love all the way to healing, and offering little tidbits of knowledge and insight.

Green Space

Green Space is the story of an Afghan wishing prosperity and abundance in a place that was once, but is no longer, occupied by someone important. Some western cultures refer to that place as a hole or a void. This is a twist in that viewpoint to see the now-free place as a 'green space'. A fertile area with wonderful potential for new growth and bounty.