The Human Thread

#14 Internalise

How to internalise a moment, a memoryA synergy so nigh it is restless beneath my veinsThrobbing at my jugular, yet it moves further awayIndescribable…

Aug 15 • Wafi Ali

#13 That I should be free

I cloud myself in the grandeur of oblivion, and in the enthusiastic solemnity of the breeze I walk through,

Aug 11 • Wafi Ali

#12 Re-tear to Re-build

Posting an old poem I wrote for International Women's Day.

Aug 3 • Wafi Ali

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#11 Fractures

Humble wounds beneath my skin, brush my veins and it hurts to hold them,Sealed beneath a brown-pink tint as dark as dusk, a fleshy camouflage.Devoid of…

Aug 2 • Wafi Ali

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May 2026

#10 Let not me be the reason you cry

let the ravenous moons rage with mirth, shower curses upon uslet the sky shatter spirits, slit souls, lay serpents within uslet nature scratch, scathe…

May 17 • Wafi Ali

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#9 Hail Mary

Merely a very dark poem.

May 15 • Wafi Ali

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April 2026

#8 In Conversation in Santorini

I often analogise human interconnectedness as a series of entangled strings that must relax and parallel themselves, recognising their homogeneous…

Apr 22 • Wafi Ali

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March 2026

#7 The Archivist

A bleak warehouse.

Mar 13 • Wafi Ali

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#6 The Night

The night whistles silvery silhouettesTo those who persist,That they exist.The night, commander, howls;Shadows loom larger;They are submissive.The mist…

Mar 12 • Wafi Ali

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November 2025

#5 I Do Not Build With Sand

I am a solitary hermit in a field of confusion;

Nov 21, 2025 • Wafi Ali

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#4 The Unlanguage

I speak the Unlanguage, the others speak it too

Nov 21, 2025 • Wafi Ali

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#3 I Sew For Peace

I pull at human threads at the feet of division.

Nov 21, 2025 • Wafi Ali

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