Osamah Sami

- Baby Moses
  
  Posted at 5:48 pm by Osamah Sami, on June 12, 2017
  Original Artwork by Mariam Sawires
  
  Mum had named
  Her newborn Moses
  To guard against
  The nonchalant sea
  So he would help
  Part the hungry ocean
  When God gave His decree
  That ‘t was time to flee
  
  But six months ago
  The phantom Pharaoh
  Sent his birthday arrow
  And gifted from a thousand mile
  A misguided guided missile
  Mum’s shell shocked cornea
  Recorded her guardian
  Sear
  By a shrapnel the size of a Chardonnay
  And flap
  Feeling for his intoxicated airway
  
  Flap did baby Moses
  Blood fountained from his neck like an octopus
  Gushing out a dozen roses.
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- Mr. Rashedy, 1994
  
  Posted at 12:33 am by Osamah Sami, on June 5, 2017
  Original Artwork by Mariam Sawires
  
  Such is tyranny, hard and cruel
  Morphing gifted men into fools
  
  When the splendid past haunts their dreams,
  They smile, douse themselves and set alight the fuel.
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- Scent of Dates
  
  Posted at 11:28 am by Osamah Sami, on May 28, 2017
  Illustration by SAMA SAMI
  
  Ramadan
  
  The Holy Month
  Ablutions
  Before the song of sparrows
  In the nick of time
  Sohour + dawn prayer
  Sunrise to sunset
  Fossicking the fridge
  Watching the wristwatch
  The scent of scripture
  Dusk
  Call to prayer
  Drowned by mum’s dish
  Iftar
  The breaking of the fast
  Almost breaking the dinner table
  Making a wish:
  “God, please end poverty.”
  Dates
  Eating them, not going on them
  Prayer, over and over
  For those in need
  Remembering
  Those in need
  The felicity of charity
  The hues of gratitude
  The rarity of restraint
  For all we need
  Is God’s colours
  His Mercy
  And them dates.
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- to live and give birth and make love
  
  Posted at 1:09 pm by Osamah Sami, on May 21, 2017
  Original Artwork by MARIAM SAWIRES
  
  I turn, bidding to see life, and whenever I do
  I see pain and poverty, hurt and hunger, labour and liquidation
  
  But instead, I adore but these, infinite sensations
  I like to descry a wildflower, gentle
  I have never seen a flower give birth
  But I have seen mothers separated from their offspring
  
  In Spring
  I like to touch the lilies and feel their coarse and supple silk
  I have never seen a flower make love
  But I have seen lovers hung from ropes, forgotten
  
  In Autumn
  I like to taste the rainwater left on the bracts overnight
  I have never seen a flower so thirsty, it begs to die
  But I have seen children ripped by a sniper’s tender bullet and sinter
  
  In Winter
  I like to listen to the soft wedding bell melodies created by the petals as they marry the grass
  I have never seen snow bury a flower in cold blood
  But I have seen powder detonate and deliberately rob the soul of a lover
  
  From next Summer:
  I will turn and accept life is full of these unfair stories.
  I wish it weren’t like this.
  But I’ve learnt these injustices harden my flower.
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- The Mother’s Day I cannot remember…
  
  Posted at 9:18 am by Osamah Sami, on May 18, 2017
  Original Artwork by Mariam Sawires
  I cannot remember her caressing and cradling me in the dark, deep night.
  I cannot remember her waking up, so I can sleep, in the dark, deep night.
  I cannot remember her feeding me in the dark, deep night.
  I cannot remember her nursing me when I got sick.
  I cannot remember her anxiety when I fell.
  I cannot remember.
  
  Yet, I am here.
  All because of the moments I cannot remember.
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- ANZAC Day
  
  Posted at 1:08 pm by Osamah Sami, on April 28, 2017
  original artwork by Mariam Sawires
  
  The Master ordered
  And the Generals gave salute
  And weary and worn-out men
  Danced to the flute
  They strapped their green cotton-armour
  And funeral-black leather boots
  
  Brides back home awaited their grooms
  To walk them down the aisle in genteel charcoal suits
  
  But mothers,
  Mistresses of intuition
  Saved money
  And bought coffins.
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- Femme Power
  
  Posted at 6:59 pm by Osamah Sami, on March 8, 2017
  To all the women in my life who teach me what and who a man is. Everyday.
  
  Mum. Grandma RIP. Sisters. Aunts. Cousins. Soulmates. Friends. Colleagues. Girlfriends. And all the inspiring ladies I’m yet to meet.
  
  Happy International Women’s Day.
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- Mosque, Mourning & Girls
  
  Posted at 10:05 pm by Osamah Sami, on April 20, 2016
  Osamah is 19, and his main aim during Ashura, a ten-day Islamic ritual, is to score the chat-room nickname of Houda, the girl whose long eyelashes feed his new obsession.
  
  Listed as iTunes Best Podcast in 2015.
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- Thoughts from a busy tram
  
  Posted at 5:51 pm by Osamah Sami, on March 7, 2016
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- When ISIS killed Iraqi boys for watching soccer
  
  Posted at 11:52 am by Osamah Sami, on March 1, 2016
  They killed a dozen boys in brazen daylight
  Their sin: soccer watching, goofin’ round & flying a kite
  Can you smell the charred remains of the teenage boys?
  Can you imagine your own young’ens being burnt for playing with toys?
  Or is our world just too pompously far away?
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