Biography
Farrah Sarafa is a poet, Professor and writer based in Manhattan. Columbia Master's graduate, she has been internationally recognized and honored for her poems pertaining to war, the Middle-East, identity and culture. She won the 6th annual Chistell award as well as the Marjorie Rappaport contest, and continues to write magazine articles on art, fashion, literature, politics, health and more. Multi-lingual, she is first generation American, born to Palestinian-Iraqi parents.
Fire-works against the Bombed
by Farrah Sarafa
Compressed in and down by fear
desires insatiate and d i s i n t i g r a t e*
collecting into one, they IMPLODE
into Iraqi core.
Particles f i z z l e,
acoustically d r i z z l e
modern rains that transform into
vect–>or-like trains colliding
they EXPLODE bullets
into Palestinian floor.
W i d e - s p r e a d s p a r k l y limbs,
Unconsciously bestowed
the whims of fresh fire
that works to insult
Inhabitants’ struggle
Toward FREEDOM,
Iraqi-Palestinian sore eyes roar
Detonation. Sealed lips utter
Desires, from between fleshy hips
to Revenge,
I l l u m i n a t e
Satiate root’s longings
to ensnare those dishonoring
Mesopotamia and Jerusalem
A I R.
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