A simple youth I came I moved in freedom’s name they said it was a shame that I should bear this name “Although we act so lenient we think it inconvenient because it lacks all fame just ditch your awful name Outsiders we detest we’re better than the rest you have yourself to [...]
She strode through the alley among a sea of patrons consuming liver and daal. Dressed in hues of grey her dab of crimson lipstick lent color to the day.
Language One My native tongue is my mama’s whispers as she wakes for prayer in the early dawn. Absorbed effortlessly in the humid afternoons of Muharraq – with its medieval neighbourhoods, sun-baked alleyways where the dripping ACs cultivate rogue vegetation. Its sounds are coastal, its tones lap sweetly like the Gulf’s gentle waves dancing at [...]
In memory of my dear friend Muhammad Alhawaj, who died of Coronavirus while studying in Saint Petersburg (originally posted in 2020 but edited in 2023) No Friendly Face This urban maze! no friendly face, a sprawl of blocks, the viral spread. Struck down you were, thrown off, defaced the final room in waft of dread. [...]
CODE SWITCHER Homie, I’m a code switcher Rule ditcher, verse pitcher They call me the glossary enricher Word stitcher, poetic bewitcher When I pen my letters, they say I’m quite lettered A vocab trend setter, unchained, untethered I say it better, while you stutter and dither I can’t be bettered, semantically unfettered! I encode the [...]
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. ~ Erich Fromm My Faith, she walketh by my side She freed my soul of every care A gift of light shall here abide The scent of spring is everywhere. The world has shaped this earthly lot Where sorrow [...]
الوعي باللاوعي: نظرة شخصية إلى أفكار كارل يونغ الجزء الأول وائل المهدي مقدمة تتناول هذه الوريقات القصيرة أفكار العالم كارل يونغ الرئيسية، وخصوصاً أفكاره كما يمكن تطبيقها في فهم الأدب من ناحية، والنظر إلى الأحداث العامة من ناحية أخرى، وليس فقط من ناحية الصحة أو المرض النفسييَن. يجب أن ألفت نظر القارئ أولاً إلى أنني [...]
by Wael Al-Mahdi (2011). A poem inspired by an oft recurring dream theme. It is a picture, frozen in words, of one aspect of a prolific unconscious. My constant affliction -which seizes with sere conscience A poet’s soul; when the sun, at its zenith, and the night, in recess Ghastly images unfold, like chapters [...]
Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) وائل المهدي “Truth is what you have to sacrifice the most for” In a time of social and psychic derangement, where the individual as well as society are crushed by unknown inner forces, there is nothing for the thinking man to do but to vivisect pieces of his living self, stuff them [...]
Wael Al-Mahdi (2010) تعريب وائل المهدي الملحمة الجبروقية هي قصيدة شعرية للكاتب لويس كارول الذي ألف رواية( آليس في بلاد العجائب). ظهرت هذه الأبيات الهزلية في رواية نُشرت في سنة 1872 وتميّزت بغرابة ألفاظها واختراع الكاتب لبعض كلماتها، وكان قصد الكاتب في ذلك السخرية من أساليب الشعر المتحجرة والنمطية المنتشرة في عهده. وفي القصة، عثرت آليس على [...]
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