Eight Micropoems by Hiba Abu Nada

We are in  Gaza before God,

Between an martyr and a witness on the Liberation, 

and we are all waiting for where we will be,

We are all waiting for your promise of truth!

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If we die, 

know that we are content and steadfast, 

and let them know that we are the righteous! 

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Whenever a line is crooked on the map of Palestine 

Between the cities, the bullets are corrected. 

Eraser for kids, cities correct mistakes with bullets,

Gaza for example. 

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The wish that we, the people of Gaza, 

Know; Everyday I used to choose your senses, 

why am I wearing a jilbab and you wearing a shoroud?

An the occasion has changed!

I'm going to die and you're going to heaven! 

What a loss, I wish we together! 

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When we go to our Lord, 

we will tell him to answer at 

the Arabs and the brothers in 

the second division of the homeland first. 

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It's like this, we are all in a open field,

Snails are exhausted from the siege 

and death carries a huge barge and waves 

it at us left and right, 

We all die and the field is empty and the Snails fly!

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This night will be difficult we will be cut of them 

all the causes of the earth, 

and we will not be cut off from the causes of the sky,

In God's farewell Gaza one by one.

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No time for big funerals and proper goodbyes, 

No time for much time,

There's a sensational rocket coming, 

We'll settle for a sneaky kiss on the forehead 

and a quick goodbye and wait for the new death,

No time for goodbyes...!

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© Hiba Abu Nada 

Martyr Hiba Abu Nada (Hiba Kamal Saleh Abu Nada) is an eternal freedom fighter hero of the great Sipahsala. She is a Palestinian poet, lyricist and novelist. She was born in Makkah on June 24, 1991 and was killed in an airstrike by Israel, Ghazar Khan Yunus at his home on October 21, 2023. Hiba was a Palestinian independence popular young novelist, poet, educator and human rights activist. In 2017, his novel "Oxygen is not for the dead" won the "Sharjah Award" for creativity. Hiba holds a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from the Islamic University of Gaza and a master's degree in clinical nutrition from Al-Azhar University. Poet Hiba Abu Nada worked tirelessly till the moment of her death for the overthrow of the illegal Israeli occupation of Gaza and the independence movement, improving the quality of life of orphans, human rights and establishing justice and good governance.

[In editing by International Peace Ambassador Sabyasachi Nazrul, bilingual global poet, motivational writer, columnist, rhymer, presenter.]