2024

Another year has now passed by us all,
Filled with its ups and downs, we’re left to haul
A summary of all that has passed us,
For us to prepare for what’s left before us.
A new year with new hopes and expectations,
Hoping for improvements in certain situations.
Keep the Middle East in your prayers:
The wars wage on; there’s no stop to their tears
Although Syria can finally breathe
As we’ve reached the end of Assad’s regime.

This is the year the world reached for the skies
We saw potential from Space X’s tries
To create a reusable rocket.
China, with rocks from the moon, filled their pockets,
To study them on Earth. Unlike those rocks,
NASA’s astronauts faced a few blocks
As they could not return home and remain
Up in the ISS as NASA strains
To fix this mess and bring them back down home.

This year was also pretty political…
Someone attempted to assassinate Trump
Only for him to miss by millimetres
And for Trump to become President Trump.
A moment gone down as historical.
You’d think that was it, no more drama…
Except he’s also a convicted fraudster
As well as America’s new leader...

The billionaire Elon Musk made history
Being the first to reach the victory
Of being worth more than 400 billion!
His dear X was banned by the Brazilians
For a month, over misinformation
concerns. Now, he’s part of the government
As if his power was not already enough.

The wars keep raging all over the world.
Russia’s bombs at Ukraine are still hurled,
Israel’s attacking AND playing the victim
But the ICC now sees the real victim:
It has called Israel an illegal state
Finally writting Netanyahu’s fate.

Natural disasters have also occurred,
So, of course, humanity was stirred.
With deadly floods in the East of Spain
And in the US, hurricane Helene,
It was only right to help them out.

It was quite the summer that we all had!
Watching the Paris Olympics, we were glad
Of the thrill of the competition
As we supported our countries’ magicians.

We saw the hundred and fiftieth birthday
Of art in the impressionist style’s way.
That’s 150 years of Monet!

Twenty-twenty-four was a leap year -
One where we saw an eclipse nice and clear.

Now, the sun sets on 2024.

#anotherworldpoem #edited #newyear

#announcement #anotherworld

I know it's been over a month since I last wrote a poem. And I was supposed to do 'Poem a Day' that month...

But rest assured, I did not forget you all loves ? and I'm back with our annual end of year poem! ?

And this time, as an apology, it's coming an hour earlier than usual. (Not that it'll actually make up for all the poems I missed... ?)

His hello warmed the heart,
his goodbye left it aching.

*" As if the memories have a heart that beats only at night "

- Mahmoud Darwish*

*Future Dreams

Sometimes I wish that I'd stop thinking of you
To work on myself and on my future too.
But I want you to be a part of that future
So we can live and grow old together.
I don't want to ever be alone
Even if that may never be shown.
I really, really want 'us' to exist
And the reasons why make up a long list.*

#anotherworldpoem #poemaday #repost

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#anotherwriter #poemaday

From Time To Time

There is plenty that needs to be done
But a break is permitted you know,
Which is why it's ok to have fun
From time to time.

#anotherworldpoem #verse #firstdraft #random

1.Haifa massacre1937
2.Jerusalem Massacre1937
3.Haifa massacre 1938
4.Balad al-sheikh massacre 1939
5.Haifa massacre 1939
6.Haifa Massacre 1947
7.Abbasiya Massacre 1947
8.Al-khisas massacre1947
9.Bab -al-Amud massacre 1947
10.Jerusalem Massacre 1947
11.Sheikh bureik Massacre 1947
12.Jaffa massacre 1948
13.Deir yassine Massacre 1948
14.Qibya massacre 1953
15.khan yuniss Massacre 1956
16.Jerusalem Massacre 1967
17.sabra and shatila Massacre 1982
18.Al Assa Massacre 1990
19.Ibrahimi mosque massacre 1994
20.Jehin refugee camp April 2002
21.Gaza Massacre 2008.09
22.Gaza massacre 2012
23.Gaza massacre 2014
24.Gaza massacre 2018.19
25.Gaza massacre 2021
26.Gaza genocide 2023 is still continuing
Don't let anyone convince you that it started on October 7th !!

StuDYINGBlack and white is all I see
Glaring from the page in front of me.
Questions are constantly being asked,
Expecting answers to be give and fast.
My brain is not fully functioning;
Nothing from the task is registering.
There are a lot of questions that await,
Exposing me like a piece of bait.
I really cannot take it anymore:
My head feels sore to the core.

#anotherworldpoem #edited #repost

Exam Season

The big moment is getting closer
And it will be one like no other.
I've got one shot to get it right
Otherwise I'd have to start a fight;
But I'll manage to do it somehow
To scrape a little together now
So that it can pay off later...
I hope.

#random #anotherworldpoem #firstdraft