[tabby title="Poem"] Jigjiga. bygone pleasures.outside,looking in.insistences.cold January.missing link.battling shore.windy evenings.no point trying for it now.summer is not close.i nor love nor hate as such--our love IS more than that:i am used to Jigjiga. [tabby title="Poet Bio"] Born in Mogadishu, Somalia,...

[tabby title="Poem"] for all the wide world that I've seen,it's but only myself that I could have been— what a way a whole built life to tarnish,although everything in it we cherish! the distance seems final which now bears usapart,yet...

[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"] nods, gracious,quiet harmonious. reborn gleam?recalling the dream. wanting . . .feeling. . . . . siezed in wonder,left to ponder. sound in melody:some sign–suddenly! no, don't be too curious,it'll leave you serious! heart cries,time flies— mind tries,the eye...

[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...