[Poetry Friday] Alice Walker’s Speechlessness,” Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Blood” and “We

We Teach Life Sir Poem. [Poetry Friday] Alice Walker’s Speechlessness,” Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Blood” and “We We just want to tell people about you and your people so give us a human story Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian poet who wrote the following poem in response to an idiotic question that she was asked by someone who has little sympathy for the suffering of the people of Palestine at the bloodied hands of Israel

"Nós ensinamos vida, Señor/We teach life, Sir", poema de Rafeef Ziadah con subtítulos en galego
"Nós ensinamos vida, Señor/We teach life, Sir", poema de Rafeef Ziadah con subtítulos en galego from www.youtube.com

The poem, written in 2011, is entitled "We teach life, sir", and has today the same validity it back then Her debut CD Hadeel is dedicated to Palestinian youth, who still fly kites in the face of F16 bombers, who still remember the names if their villages in Palestine and still hear the sound of Hadeel (cooing of doves) over Gaza.

"Nós ensinamos vida, Señor/We teach life, Sir", poema de Rafeef Ziadah con subtítulos en galego

We teach life after they have built their settlements and apartheid walls, after the last skies Don't mention that word "apartheid" and "occupation" RAFEEF ZIADAH is a Canadian-Palestinian spoken word artist and activist

We Teach Life Sir PDF. Don't mention that word "apartheid" and "occupation" But today, my body was a TV'd massacre made to fit into sound-bites and word limits.

Poems About Life. We teach life after they have built their settlements and apartheid walls, after the last skies Poem by Rafeef Ziadah, a Canadian-Palestine spoken word artist and activist