Fatima Al Matar فاطمة المطر

Silence is not empty, it's full of answers.

29 Jun 2016

The courage to reach out (again).

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Dear JP, My name is Fatima, I'm 35 years old. I stumbled upon your YouTube videos by coincidence (although there is probably no suc...
28 Jun 2016

Just as we begin to go they begin to arrive – Sharon Olds

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Something about the world after a heavy rain fall; the kind that falls urgently as if to extinguish a fiery morning, the kind...
19 Jun 2016

Prayer

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In the silence of night something cracks open, A light, a prayer, a heart… Dear God, You know everything; the measure of the i...
18 Jun 2016

What isn't

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What isn’t, all that isn’t; the people no longer alive, their names less and less spoken, their numbers deleted, medicine bottles l...
17 Jun 2016

Darling! Grief is too vast.

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Driving, I see the narrow road widen and stretch as if materialising right there and then before me, a path, a direction laid just to ...
16 Jun 2016

Thursday morning

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The loud noisy rumbling of the rubbish collection truck outside. This is how day after day passes, though time is an illusion. The last...
13 May 2016

For many days - Recorded Poem

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I've always had an unusual attachment to the rain, my last name is the Arabic word for rain! but that's not it, I've always fou...
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ِA bilingual poet, writer and artist.
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