JUDO
Savage judoka
A Coriolis effect
of black belt, white blur
His dynamic demeanor,
often mistaken for a language
of violence, is reckless abandon
fueled by his passion and barely
restrained by his purity of heart
and by the social conventions of a
pluralist society afraid of the tiles
in the shimmering mosaic that
dazzles the people of a planet
in need
No wasted motion
Each day is branded with the
poignant poetics of an action haiku
choreographed gently by
one hundred kilos
in congruent rotation
with mayhem and doubt
Ali’s family fled the conflict between Lebanon and Israel,
When he was just a young child at the age of six months,
He was born without legs and now lives in London’s whirl,
And is a British Paralympic powerlifter with -59kg cloths.
He took powerlifting up when he was sixteen years old,
So made his city’s Paralympics where he finished fourth,
Before that he was a Judoka star, but then he lifted, hold,
Second place at the World juniors 2006, gold Euros forth.
The next year, 2008, he won gold again at World juniors,
Where he set three records: British junior and senior cool,
And also the European junior, and then he won gold stars,
At the 2015 Euros in Eger, Hungary, and so Rio’s his pool.
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