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Noura,
I cannot fathom not having commented on this poem. The new feature of recommended poems brought it to my fresh attention. It remains one of the most powerful love please I have read on this entire site. From your first entry to this site (and The Flowing River) you have taken your native genius and polished it to an engaging diamond.

This songs of freedom!
it's all I ever have
it's
all I ever be.
(( playing with Bob's lyric a bit))

beautifully pend!!

Got back from a long long break, so sorry for the late post, but here's the comment I wrote as a judge back then:

"It didn't take long to realize that this poem would be filled with emotion as I read the first two lines, although I think it might have been more powerful to do without the enjambment and merge those two lines, just to start off the poem with a bigger punch. But that's just a tiny technical note, also regarding the flow. What I liked about this poem is that it wasn't just a simple jumble of fancy imagery, because the imagery was actually put together very well with the use of repetition, making the poem well-rounded. The echoes of a "home" are evident within almost each stanza, and so is the reminder of weapons. I love the contrast between the two personas, how they are probably a couple but both have a different vision of "all they have". The mention of the khaki suit also tied so well with the previous stanza about the news. There are subtle reminders everywhere that connect the imagery, and the emotions that are evoked only strengthen them. This poem portrayed such an important issue yet manages to make it intimate and personal, pulling the reader in with emotions. Nice work."

Did this really not end up on the front page?

Noura, no poet on this site is able to write anything as raw as this poem. By the end I was overwhelmed by emotion and that does not happen often for me when reading poetry on this site. The way you are able to write with such honest really does send shivers down my spine and this poem is one I will continue to return to read for a very long time.

I hope you are well my friend.

Judge Comments:

Noura takes you to a place where your soul cries....

When destruction and war is all around you, the emotions can kill a heart, within this piece Noura pleads for her love to unite in love and yet to save their homeland... just a heartbreaking poem and written in true form by Noura.. Powerful poem by this lovely lady!