Saffron fields:
At sunset, the saffron flower closes in on itself and hides.
Part of the note was hidden behind the fire, burned and hidden forever!
The ship also sank and hid in the depths of the ocean.
Musa, Farzana, Abu Musa, Faisal and Maryam...they all have a truth that they strive to hide.
In war and peace, in love and hate,
Circumstances varied, and the reasons varied.
But they all had another side!
It was not hypocrisy. Circumstances made it necessary for them to hide one face and show another. Because revealing the truth is sometimes costly, and sometimes foolish.
At other times, hiding it is considered cowardice, and showing it requires courage that they did not possess at the time...!
Perhaps we are all like them, due to some circumstance.. We have another side that we hide, or postpone its appearance.!
Mahra bint Ahmed
Why poetry now?!
We live in an age of betrayals, conspiracies, and assassinations. We pant through twenty-four crowded, deadly hours in a frame of extended, neglected time that does not give any importance to our entire lives. We live in vortexes, labyrinths, and alienation. We live in oppression, fear, and hunger. So why poetry now?!
Who has time for poetry? Who has time to write poetry?! Who has time to receive poetry?!
Poetry riots against betrayal, conspiracy, and murder, or it riots against triviality, superficiality, and sorcery. If poetry does not say: “No” in a blatant, loud, and hurtful way, then it does not accept to say: “Yes,” even by cutting off its head.
It's that great positive thing. It is what confirms to us that we cry because we are not yet accustomed to humiliation and have not accepted it, that we bleed because we have not died, and that we are angry because we have not adapted to injustice. It alerts us to what we have almost forgotten, and reminds us that we are human, and that we are bigger and greater than our daily lives.
we are human beings. We must always remember this, and poetry must always remind us of this.
We are greater than profit and loss, greater than acceptance and surrender, or malice and evasion.
So poetry is necessary.
Therefore, a poet is necessary.
