Tag: Yusif

Nestlings – 9th June 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

Tiny whispers screaming at the air
Hungry for understanding of this world unfair
Tentative steps towards wings to fly
As tigers wait with open mouths nearby
Mothers teaching babies self-reliance
Exercised in gambled acts of defiance
Jumping nests and flailing limbs
Searching where the rest of life begins

…what you call civilisation in the West is naught but another spectre of the many phantoms of tragic deception.

Yusif in The Tempest by Khalil Gibran

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for Lazada and for Bath and Body Works – today I can put a new air freshener in my car.

Once The War Is Over – 18th May 2022

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ 1 Comment

When it’s decided nothing is decided
What is left over will remain divided
Rewritten histories and redrawn maps
Humanity adjusts to new handicaps
Once the war is over it’s only just begun
Here comes another, and another one
Victory propaganda, revisionist extolling
Amounts to nothing as the tanks keep rolling

I am here, living, and in the depths of my existence there is a thirst and hunger, and I find joy in partaking of the bread and wine of life from the vases which I make and fashion by my own hands.

Yusif, The Tempest by Kahlil Gibran

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to see all my students again. They make me happy and I’m already back to dreaming about them and thinking about our classes. It’s like my brain switched on again.