Ayushi’s Voice
from the front lines of freedom
The Finest Poem
The Fourth Quasida, by Taha Muhammad AliI never felt a poem so strongly as the one below, by Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali. In fact, poetry and I do not usually have a relationship of any kind, which makes my admiration of the poem even more noteworthy. I urge you to read it aloud. ¶ When our loved ones leave Amira, as you left, an endless migration in us begins and a certain sense takes hold in us that all of what is finest in and around us, except for the sadness, is going away — departing, not to return the…
Hamish ’Managua’ GunnMar 20
