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Grandma’s Kitchen

Grandma’s Kitchen

2010-09-07  |  No Comments ››

Crowded as a fish market
With walls as white as a glass of milk
It is a place of love

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Remember Your Heart

Remember Your Heart

2010-09-05  |  No Comments ››

Take the chance or leave it behind / Teeth on teeth, it is hard to breathe / Let a mirage take your hand / Stay on until the end, shaking your head

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Stop Crying My Heart

Stop Crying My Heart

2010-09-03  |  No Comments ››

Stop crying my heart
Be strong in this unfair world
Be strong… be strong

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Today My Heart Cries

Today My Heart Cries

2010-09-01  |  No Comments ››

Today, again, I am alone / Lost with my memories / I sit in my office chair / Drink a glass of coffee / Listen to soft music…

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Tomes

Tomes

2010-08-29  |  No Comments ››

You are my best friend
You are my best pal
When I am disappointed you make me hopeful

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The Grave Is Always Silent

The Grave Is Always Silent

2010-08-26  |  No Comments ››

In the palace there is a grave / The grave of a kind man / Where I empty my pains / It is my guest house / I rest on the soil / There is a picnic of my sorrows

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Have We Forgotten?

Have We Forgotten?

2010-08-19  |  2 Comments ››

My heart beats while listening to my friends talk of Afghanistan and politics
My heart beats, but not from excitement.
From fear.

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I Want to Fly in the Sky

I Want to Fly in the Sky

2010-08-17  |  2 Comments ››

I want to fly in the sky far from this earth, / to make my own world there with the clouds. / I want to write my hope, my wishes on the white clouds, / I want to fly in the sky.

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An Afghan Poet

An Afghan Poet

2010-08-16  |  8 Comments ››

I am a writer / An Afghan woman writer / But no one cares for my writings / No one reads them here / It is a crime / For a woman to write.

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I Wish My Country Was Not My Love

I Wish My Country Was Not My Love

2010-08-13  |  No Comments ››

I wish Afghanistan was not a country / But instead a dry land / And no one lived in it. / I wish my country was not my love / I suffer from its pains.

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