Category: Photography

via Instagram http://bit.ly/2VB0RJ2 The day of the arrest
of Assange,
I was there.
I saw the anger
in his eyes
I saw the face
of despair.
He acted when
he saw injustice,
the guardian of information
the destroyer of secrets
the voice
of the oppressed.
He whistle blowed
corruption,
and with his words
and courage,
nurtured victims.
He spoke when
no one dared to speak,
a David facing thousand
Goliaths
and knew that what we know
is everything,
and how we use
that knowledge
is what we ought to be.
He understood the
mastery of fear.
But he was dragged today
in the streets of London,
and I,
passively,
was there.
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4-11-19
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#wcharaf April 11, 2019 at 09:02AM

via Instagram http://bit.ly/2UnYwos “He swings in the night, and she beside him on the other swing. They swing in opposite directions, only to meet in the middle, in passing. It is a friendship, but she is his beloved, his adoration. Close as she is, she remains elusive forever.

This incident of “opposite swings” serves as a grander metaphor for the themes of this collection of poems: heartbreak, assimilation, isolation, and stark contrast. Here is a young man—a Lebanese immigrant, a devout Believer, a helpless lover—tormented by unrequited love and a foreign, rejecting culture. With tender grace and colliding contrast, Charafeddine’s poems blend the surging tsunamic passion of his broken Middle-Eastern spirit with the tacit craft of the English form. The photographs in the book, which serve to enhance the poems, are equally masterful.”
Yousif Alqamoussi

Thank you @yalqam
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#wcharaf April 09, 2019 at 01:40AM

via Instagram https://ift.tt/2HL0MiP The truth is never absolute. It is always relative. The truth is a biological mosaic of perceptions and biases. We did not evolve to know the truth. We evolved to survive. What we call truth, is a construct by our body (brain) to defend us against dangers and odds.
#wcharaf March 27, 2019 at 07:06PM

via Instagram https://ift.tt/2HsjcVt Your idea is not you? If you get too close to your ideas, you will start getting offended when they are challenged.
Ideas are bubbles of thought that floats in the collective intellect. When it pops , it frees the space for more ideas. It doesn’t matter who blew it and who popped it.
#wcharaf March 18, 2019 at 08:03PM

via Instagram https://ift.tt/2FhzHkT I put pieces of my heart into a book … selected poems from 1996-2013 … coming out next month. #theoppositeswings #wpoetry #wcharaf March 16, 2019 at 06:37PM