[tabby title="Poem"] Was beauty ever known beforeYou came around in the human lore?Was such a grace in human form everwrought,In the highest image or thought? [tabby title="Poet Bio"] Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, the poet was raised in a politically prominent...

[tabby title="Poem"] I cannot say much about people I love,I've known for so long of weary faces,And at first word I'll in heart yield and move,For years I've sought to help in good ways;But the weary brother with heart broken,Not...

[tabby title="Poem"] (to Amal)Musical Child of May, spirit fierce and fair!Born to Spring when the cricket cheers, orDrowsy nightingale weeps in melody, to begetA new breed that in future glory may rhyme--Here to the twenty, and a thousand to come,Of...

[tabby title="Poem"] Come and see how I cryForever without tears,And the years wane and wax,With me waiting for you; Come and see this soulThat has yet to learn to laugh,And how life wearsOn a heart wandering meaningless in Time; Without...

[tabby title="Poem"] (to my sister, Fowsia Abdulkadir) Let there be no pretense to sadness, or mourningin vain Over this humble grave---my long-lost home whereat last I return To---where all content lived before ambition droveus all insane, For it's been this...