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Young refugees find their voice through poetry

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Appeal: Young refugees find their voice through poetry

By Severin Carrell

04 January 2004

 

 

Writing poetry allows Alwaiya to speak freely. With a poem, the young refugee can conjure up images of her childhood home in Somalia, or the long, bewildering flight into the dark from Mogadishu.

 

Alwaiya Mudhir was six when she was bundled by her father on to a flight to London, with her brother, sister and aunt, to escape the violence and poverty of Somalia. She is now a confident 14-year-old, and is torn between becoming a poet and a psychiatrist.

 

 

One Night

 

One night I left my home

 

Our whole life changed

 

Old men coughing

 

The next thing I could

 

remember was

 

That it was a very dark night

 

We were very bored

 

travelling place to place

 

WHEN ARE WE EVER GOING

 

TO STOP & SIT!!!

 

By Alwaiya Mudhir, 14

 

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J.Lee   

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Being dubbed the Nation of Poets, how can we not express our selves and find our voices through poetry when we're in foreign soil. I hope they all succeed in their endeavors. She seems like a intellectual young lady who is very ambitious. Her poem is simplistic and describtive and offers poignant portrayal of when she fled somalia through the eyes of a six year old. More power to her and all of us.

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Originally posted by Instinct-Poet:

Sooyal thanx for sharing the article...

Young somali poet..

Seems like some one i'll witness later in life

If she continues to write.

my pleasure and your contribution is welcomed here.

 

if we encourge our youngisters to reat and write some poems then they have a chance to develop them in their later years.

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