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Best Poems Written by Mubarika Sami

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Refugee Boy

( Poem about Kurdish Iranian teenager attacked in Croydon)

Refugee boy 

Just 17
Yet your eyes have seen so much
Now so far from home and loved ones
You thought you were free from danger
In your land of refuge
Life was routine again
College and a visit to the teahouse on the way home
It was familiar, cosy
You said you were lucky you were here
Just before…
A pack of ‘hyenas’ set upon you
You had invaded their ‘territory’
Drunk and vicious subhuman dregs of society
They kicked your slender frame 
Again, again and again
They cracked your skull, your spine
And left you for dead
Some ‘hyenas’ circled
Watched and jeered
You are stronger than them
They could not break your spirit
You were meant to live, Godspeed

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Granada

I miss you, beautiful Granada
Your snow-capped Sierra Nevada
Your fountains and sweet sparkling water
Your olive groves at the foot of Nevada
And orange trees all over Granada
Your history is like no other
The view of the splendid al Hambra
High up on the hill is preciosa
Your flamenco is more flamboyant than the lambada
Oh Granada, Granada
When will we meet again Granada!

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Cordoba

Un día voy a ir a ti, Córdoba
pasearé por las antiguas calles empedradas
y escucharé los ecos de hace muchos siglos,
de cuando los musulmanes gobernaron  Andalusia

Veré las coloridas túnicas que fluyen
blancas contrastando con el sol deslumbrante,
infinitos jardines de simetría, flores exóticas, fuentes, cascadas.
Córdoba,  entras en mi alma,

el aroma a especias y perfumes dulces saldrá de tus bazares
junto a los científicos, médicos y poetas.
Te vivo con el pensamiento, 
zumbando estás entre ideas, vibrante,

una nueva forma de vida tolerante 
en una increíble amalgama de personas, religiones, lenguas;
Así es como trabajamos mejor
vivimos entonces nuestro mejor momento,
¡Ah, cómo te anhelo mi Córdoba!

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Mental Illness

Mental illness affects one in four
Yet we still close the door

Terms- crazy, mad, lunatics, kooks
Let’s confine to history books

Images of Bedlam and straitjackets distort our minds
Screaming, shadowy old movie kinds

Mental illness is just another disease
Try kindness and understanding please

Sadly we’re stuck in the past
Old prejudice must not last

It’s time to open the door
Isolation, stigma, shame no more

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Cordoba

One day I will go to Cordoba
Walk along the old cobbled streets
And hear the echoes
From many centuries ago
When the Muslims ruled Iberia
I will see the colourful flowing robes
Or white against the dazzling sun 
Endless gardens of symmetry
 Exotic flowers, fountains, cascading waterfalls
Cordoba enters my soul
The scent of spices and sweet perfumes 
Will waft from the bazaars
The scientists, physicians, poets
Alive with thought, buzzing with ideas, vibrant
A new, tolerant, exciting way of life
An amalgamation of people, religions, languages
That is how we worked best
Lived at our best
How I yearn for that Cordoba

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Never Again

When 6 million Jews died
You said never again

Yet it happened again, again and again
The genocide in Rwanda
You watched

Ethnic cleansing in Bosnia 
You waited

Till the worst was over
Then slowly waded in

Now Rohingya and you close your eyes
Do you remember you said never again?

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Colours

Colours


(Inspired by the recent race related shootings in America)

I'm in red
You're in blue
I'm 'lady in red'
You're 'boy in blue'
We're a myriad of kaleidoscopes
But colour does not define us


Tomorrow I think pink
You'll be in purple
I'm me 
And you're you
Who's in black and who's in white
Colour does not define us


I'll dye my hair blue
You'll wear green lenses
I'm still me
You're still you
Colour does not define us

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Airport Goodbyes

You left me today
Leaving  your contrail in the sky

I saw you off at the airport
Waving even after you turned

Till you disappeared
Yet my legs did not want to move

I could feel your warm breath on my cheek
Now I felt my tears

I watched your contrail in the sky
Until it was dark

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Love Poem

She said
Last night I had an epiphany
I just know its serendipity
Perhaps written in antiquity
Our love in all probability 
Will last till eternity
We have such magnetic affinity
After such ecstasy I cannot bear mediocrity

He said
Responding with alacrity
My dear, delectable Felicity
You’re a current of electricity
My heart beats faster in your vicinity
You’ve such charming eccentricity
An intangible mystery
My mind has lost its sensibility
In fact all rationality
I must take this opportunity
To propose in all sincerity
Will you marry me, Felicity?

She said
Overcome with empathy
I will dearest Timothy

He said
Without a hint of irony
There is no I in matrimony

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Queen of the Savannah

Sleek beauty
Silently bounding
On velvet padded paws
Gold against the setting sun
In a shimmer of heat


A jeep out of nowhere
Men with rifles
Take aim in the haze
There lies the lifeless body 
Of Queen of the Savannah