Soulfully Scribbled

Scribbling, scribbling on the wall,

A wall of love, hate… Full of uproar

A piece of art began to fall

From my heart, striking it all

Into fragments from my soul

Shattered, broken chaos uproar

Striving to remedy my life-long scar

Scribbling, scribbling on the wall…

Sofia

“Burn”

Burn in shelter, in escape, in refuge

Burn in a sacred secret space of destiny

Burn in shame or in contentment

Burn in ecstasy

Burn in sweetness or in endeavours of sacrifice

Burn layers of ego, shadows, traumas, and hidden vice

Burn the falsehood of earthly fights

Burn your depths to screams and aches

Burn, your flames will light the way for others to find

Burn my love

Burn in delight

On a journey of the self, the seeking for clarity and wisdom, yearning for a connection with the higher self - this comes with highs and lows, pushes and pulls, resistance, liberation, blazing passion, and calm surrender. 

Sofia’s secrets of the blue will take you on a journey, surfing these tides of longing. This collection of poetry is a search for spiritual enrichment in the pursuit of unity.

So Many Hats (or Veils)

We play many roles in life and wear many hats: the human, the individual, the romantic, the man or woman, the parent, etc. 

Can you make a connection with someone who seems so foreign to you, someone who wears hats you can’t begin to understand? Hats that - on first glance - may even seem threatening to you? 

Is it possible to wear many hats without losing yourself, to integrate them into one “I”?

These are some questions I explore in my poetry, questions that float around in my head, under my own many hats.

Underneath

all my hats,

my eyes—

they stay the same.

Windows

into my soul,

that’s ’who

“I”

am.

I am not

any of my hats

or roles.

I’m just another

kindred 

soul.

Senses

I hope you smell roses in every word,
See sunshine in every stanza
And feel the breeze between each page.

Searching For Lights

We need lights in our lives to continue living and have a good time.

Lights can be in the form of contentment, which can be derived from a real love or a happy life.

Searching for Lights is a book of poems and short stories that will take you on a journey of discovering different kinds of love: soothing love, secret love, unspoken love, and real love.

In this book, you are going to see how life is rich in both happiness and sadness, regrets and hopes.

There you could be lost and struggle for love which can take you on ups and downs, humps and turbulences.

Somehow fantasy is not discounted in this book. Two short stories will drag you into a world of thrills and excitement. Nevertheless, this book carries lots of meaningful, moving sentences that can be used as quotes and deep posts.

And not to mention the meaningful drawings that accompanied each poem in order to deepen the meaning and clarify the message of the poem.

Dear reader, you may find your story or a situation that has happened to you previously in this book –  this life is a set of experiences that we have lived, even if the details differ.

I hope you enjoy your journey ‘Searching for Lights’.

Schizophrenic Galaxy

A journey into one’s mind is an exploration of the universe itself. A schizophrenic galaxy is a reality we live in. My thoughts led me into a walk down the electric roads in my mind, it was the winter that kept our love warm, Elysian fields of our extraterrestrial love. I hold you closer near the Arc de Triomphe where you justify the essence of a French kiss. We swift down Victor Hugo as my collar dances with your hair. We lay dazzled in Sainte-Chapelle screaming for your music, mesmerized by immortal trees, by weak leaves. Just like the soul you rescued, an infinite soul.

A journey into one’s mind is an exploration of our souls intertwine. Light and awareness, the aliveness in every apparent motion in my mind. My thoughts and actions are justified by her, extracted out of me and returned to her. Everything I see, hear, do or know is enabled out of me. It is my mind and my being in use.

Rhythm Resonance

An old soul with a modern view
Numerous traumas she went through
She managed to emerge though with new mindsets
On a recovery journey, on herself she bets

She might seem simple on the surface
Yet, she's boiling inside,trapped in a thermos
She claimed her feelings, identified them
Unearthing their roots, where they stem

No red lines, and no secrets
She just likes to share her candid experience
For your empathy, she's surely needless
In emotional detection, a mere ingenious

She resonates and tolerates
In offering help, she never hesitates
Generously giving her care and time
With a strong encouragement to always rhyme
To self-love and dress to the nine
And inner core continuously refine.

Oh Hardships! they never last
I know how now, you're deeply crashed
Rely on your creator, and release your burden
A new person will shine, an amazing version.

Regretted Never, Won’t Ever

This is my first ever endeavor to create a ‘garland of rhyming words’. People usually call them poem… For me, not even one is less than a pearl. This is just an encouragement and inspiration for me to pen and weave more such beautiful garlands.

As a human being, we have various traits which define us. So are my poems, expressing different moods, feelings and thoughts.

Each one is unique and has the power to connect directly to the reader.

Reflections

Reflections may just seem like mirror images on water, but they gloriously differ with the eye of the beholder. They are what the viewer perceives them to be, from their view. This collection of poems, Reflections, encompasses musings on nature, human interactions and the emotions that connect us all. These are ‘reflections’, as seen by my eyes.

Profundity

This book consists of poems of pure feelings. Some of them talk about the mindset we live in, and some of them talk about the struggles young adults face in our modernized world, whether it's friendships, love, or even societal issues (fitting in). I question a variety of things including our surroundings, some certain views of other people, and some social norms in this book. Nothing personal here, it’s just how I view life. I hope it touches your heart!

Perplexus

Harmonizing a colorful assortment of yarns (African, Arab, European, Islamic, metropolitan), Dr. Tinay manages to valiantly approach a hardly pliant loom and produce the wide range of richly textured fabrics comprising his “Perplexus” collection.”

                                                                                                Fathelbari A. Al Hasan

      Poet and Literary Critic

“In this collection, as in his previous volumes, the poet has demonstrated amazing skills in transforming the personal and subjective into universally human experiences rendered in superb verse.”

Adil Babikir

Author and Literary Translator of

Modern Sudanese Poetry

Fellow, Institute of Global Translation

Ahmed’s poems are distinguished by a delicate poetic sense and crafted with high professionalism and a skilled linguistic style. The poet is also able to employ his seasoned poetic and linguistic tools to tackle the varied topics in this collection with extremely high ingenuity. The deep philosophical perspectives expressed in these poems would certainly appeal to a wide range of lovers of poetry rendered in the English tongue.

Once Upon A Dream

When a dream touches reality, it becomes possible to happen. No matter what I lost in my life, I always looked at the bright side. I always suppressed my pain to be able to move on.
I believe that if your new year is just like the year before then you need to get yourself a job.
When I was fed up waiting for a job to save my life, I worked on my dream. Sometimes losing important things give us the chance for better things. Only when we are positive enough can we see the light under the sea and an ending to the ocean.
Wake up today to make your dreams true. Work on them because the story of 11:11 wish and the falling star wish are unfortunately not real!