When you smile
Pains escape to the mountains
Smile
When you smile
The pomegranate flowers smile too
Smile
I decided not to be rude again
Smile
Life is short…
Life is short…
By Tabasom
Smile
by AWWP | December 30, 2009 | Tabasom | 2 comments
AWWP Writing
- AWWP Stories & Essays
- AWWP Poems
- Oral Stories Project
- Oral Stories Project 1: Widows (March 2013)
- Oral Stories Project 2: Education (July 2013)
- Oral Stories Project 3: Women in Business (Sept. 2013)
- Oral Stories Project 4: Love and Forgiveness (Nov. 2013)
- Oral Stories Project 5: Maternity and Childbirth in Afghanistan (July 2014)
- Oral Stories Project 6: Ramadan (July 2014)
- Oral Stories Project 7: Gender Violence (Dec. 2014)
- Oral Stories Project 8: Human Rights (Feb. 2015)
- Oral Stories Project 9: Our Daily Lives (April 2015)
- Oral Stories Project 10: Women Under Burqa Talk About Women’s Rights (Sept. 2015)
- Teenage Writers Workshop
- Justice for Farkhunda
- Provinces of Afghanistan
- 2014 Afghan Elections Project
- Campaign for Love and Forgiveness
The language of this poem is spare and yet the meaning is clear and beautiful. Lovely work.
Tabasom, her important story, and her wise and piercing poetry have all rendered me speechless. The images here, because they are so distinct, are overwhelming, colorful, and full of sensory life. With the simplest of words, words even in translation, and with a most innocent command, Tabasom has exposed the startlingly effortless wisdom that too often escapes the most of us. Amazing. So irreversibly terrible to have lost her.
-Christy