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#18 laughter and tears
In an ill city, i am shrieking lines and letterscrustily etched into each rusting brickand caked unwittingly in cement sent to exile;i have looked down…
Oct 9
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Wafi Ali
September 2026
#17 Forgiveness be my friend
Forgiveness be my friend for no bond has your unparalleled mercyForgiveness be the hand that grips my sweaty palms; kindly fade reality into my…
Sep 14
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Wafi Ali
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#16 Blues in the beauty
There are blues in the beautySullen shades tinting the expectant tips of my pupilsAnd I feel only what I seeThe gloom of certainty in the trees that I…
Sep 11
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Wafi Ali
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August 2026
#15 A continuous thought
In the taunting silence, I sit and I weep ghost tears.
Aug 31
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Wafi Ali
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#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
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Wafi Ali
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#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
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Wafi Ali
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#12 Re-tear to Re-build
Posting an old poem I wrote for International Women's Day.
Aug 3
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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
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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
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Wafi Ali
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#9 Hail Mary
Merely a very dark poem.
May 15
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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
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Wafi Ali
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March 2026
#7 The Archivist
A bleak warehouse.
Mar 13
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Wafi Ali
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