Hello to all who have and will be checking my website. I thank you! It has been a long while since I posted on my website, and since then, a lot has happened. A lot has changed. I changed!
I got a job to be the caretaker of the Malcolm Knapp Research Forest, and all I can say is this, I fall asleep smiling and wake up smiling. The energy and the peace that I feel living in this beautiful and humble house is nothing short of a dream come true. I love it every day.
Once I fully handle all the duties expected of me, I am starting to take time to get back to working again on the already finished manuscript of my poetry book # 4. In contrast, I will simultaneously get back to my online memoir writing classes with Sylvia Taylor.
I am at peace, and I am present. Since my last post, a couple of members have been added to the family, blessing us with love and joy & sadly, we lost some loved ones, and just five days ago, one of my maternal uncles passed away. Uncle Sabah lived in Germany with his lovely wife, Ramzyah. He will be greatly missed.
He was one incredible uncle. The fantastic memories he left empower me to be like him, kind, humble, honest, and always smile even while crying.
The day he passed, I took a long lonely walk in the deep forest here and cried my eyes out. I said his name and spoke aloud like a crazy person, and I didn’t care because the forest allows us to be unlike unkind humans.Here is the poem I wrote as I grieved with my family for his loss. https://youtu.be/HIW0B04M8lk
this was July 2018 Rest in peace dear unlce, rest in peace. You are forever loved.
First and foremost, I would like to acknowledge that I humbly live on the traditional, unceeded territories of the səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) & xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. Thank you for allowing me to live on your land —Vancouver, BC Canada.
I am a Canadian citizen who migrated from Kurdistan —Present day Northern Iraq, in 1995 after spending over a year as an asylum seeker in Turkey.
I was born and raised in Baghdad in 1972, I am the fifth of eleven children; three boys and seven girls –one brother passed away in infancy.
I am the author of ( I’m No Hero) and ( Counting Waves ) published by: Silver Bow Publishing. I am dedicating my third book of poems ( Dreamers Needed ) to my teenage boys, Trey, 15 and Wyatt, 13.
I started reciting my poems for the first time in 2013 at The Holy Wow Poets Canada in Maple Ridge. I am currently a member of the Canadian Authors Association, Federation of BC Writers, The Royal City Literary Art Society and the Holy Wow Poets Canada. I am presently the secretary of the Royal City Literary Arts Society. I work as a freelance interpreter.
I was commissioned in the fall of 2017 to write a poem about the refugee experience to DaCapo Chamber Choir in Toronto. The event will feature my poem “I am here” in spring 2019.
I was one of the recipients of the 2018 Distinguished Poet Award from WIN– Writers International Network Canada and was 3rd place winner at the 2018 Tagore Festival Peace Poems contest. Since first sharing my poetry in 2013, I have featured in numerous poetry events throughout the Greater Vancouver area.
My work has been published in The Royal City Poets Anthologies (Silver Bow Publishing), The Royal City Literary Arts Society online magazine eZine, Wordplay at Work, Creative Quills Ink Verse (North Vancouver), Celebrate Canada 150 and Culture Days From Far and Wide (Multicultural Creative Writing Collection 2017) and the 2018 Holy Wow Poets Anthology (Maple Ridge).
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