Do women pretend to be lonely when there is a world of people around them? Or does true loneliness make them settle for any man and become a mother for the company? That's how I understood it.
I didn't read any pretending in that. It's about if women were always lonely and being a mother didn't change that, or if loneliness is what made them a mother.
as an arabic speaker who has learned the language, I have nothing to compare the depths of its colourful speech. And this speaker from sudan captures it so beautifully.
i like the part when she talks about Khartoum in the 80s. the whole mood changes and i feel like im there when she starts with, "but tonight" at 3:29 . the imagery and even her tone of voice makes everything so warm and sweet.
It’s like learning a song, it’s a lot about how it makes you feel. Certain things just stick with you. You can learn all the words to an entire album but stumble over your own name.
This is the most beautiful, clever, timely, and awe-striking poem I have ever heard. Regardless of any winnings, Safia Elhillo will forever be a notable poet in my book.
The poet is reading about a dozen short poems back to back. The comment below mine actually writes out each poem and their start times - The book that a lot (if not all) of these poems are in is called The January Children by Safia Elhillo and it's available on Amazon and from the University of Nebraska Press. Hope that helps!
Regardless of how many times I watch this video i can't but be blown away every single time. This is one of the most beautiful thing i've ever heard. Absolutely beautiful and thought provoking
This is stunning. She is so beautifully poised in the way she recites and everything flows so well! That must be at least 6 different poems back to back. What an inspiration. She made me feel.
I keep coming back to this, time and time again. She's majestic and mesmerising. She hooks me in and ground me with with every line. I wish her much success.
Enjoyed your poems. And your unique word choices enhanced the poems emotional impact and kept me engaged throughout. I’m a poet specializing in Japanese forms: haiku, tanka, haibun, kyoka, senryu. I hope you don’t mind me sharing a tanka and my haiku, a tribute poem to Bashō’s frog with commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my Basho haiku among her top 10 haiku of all time. What an honor. Here’s the Bashō poem and commentary: Bashō’s frog four hundred years of ripples At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA forum. The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of the sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are ripples and our lives ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain. ~~ And my tanka: returning home from a Jackson Pollock exhibition I smear my face with paint and morph into art ~~ -All love in isolation from Miami Beach, Florida, Al
this is absolutely breathtaking, i feel like i can relate a lot. i've watched it so many times, that now i know every word by heart, like safia knows the phone numbers of the ones who have lied the most.
صفية الحِلو ، هل لي بأن أفخر كل الفخر لأننا فقط من منطقة واحدة ، من الأبنوس من المهوقني ، من شلالات جبل مرة من نيلاً أبيض وآخر أزرق ، من شمس السادسة صباحاً ، من أمطار الغرق..! هل لي بفخر ان أفخر بك..؟
Seven years passed and I still come back here for a good cry. This will always be my favorite.
Same:,)
Same 🥹
Same
She said "thank you" at the end like she didn't just rip my wig off
Like she didn’t just rip my throat out
"Did our mothers invent loneliness or did it make them our mothers."
I don't get the meaning behind this.. Can someone please explain?! :)
Do women pretend to be lonely when there is a world of people around them? Or does true loneliness make them settle for any man and become a mother for the company? That's how I understood it.
Oh yes that sounds about right! :D
Thanks!
I didn't read any pretending in that. It's about if women were always lonely and being a mother didn't change that, or if loneliness is what made them a mother.
The nice part about poetry is how it moves you. Could mean different things depending on your experiences and reflection
Her book 'The January Children" is just wonderful, with poems from this but so much other great work.
I need to learn arabic ASAP. The language is BEYOND beautiful.
Am arabic if you want me to teach you. Lebanese to be specific and the the first sentence she first said was one of my favorite songs by fairouz ❤️
Zahraa, can you translate to me that first phrase, please :)
Same, Arie
@@zahraael-annan6664 I am not arabic but i listen to fairouz and im in love with those songs
as an arabic speaker who has learned the language, I have nothing to compare the depths of its colourful speech. And this speaker from sudan captures it so beautifully.
I honestly loved the way she described her parents in the 80's the picture she painted in my mind was so beautiful
as someone from a country wreck by civil war she puts to words everything I feel
Thank you for posting. Safia is one of the most unique poets we've ever worked with - happy her work connected!
I've purchased 2 of her books and I still come back to listen to this twice a month.
Me too! I'm completely in love
i like the part when she talks about Khartoum in the 80s. the whole mood changes and i feel like im there when she starts with, "but tonight" at 3:29 . the imagery and even her tone of voice makes everything so warm and sweet.
I forget my own name sometimes, how does she manage to memorize this entire poem?!
its actually like 12 poems. I know the first 8 minutes are 8 different poems.
It's not a poem if it's your life story.. you don't forget that. I promise. You never forget a word of it.
It’s like learning a song, it’s a lot about how it makes you feel. Certain things just stick with you. You can learn all the words to an entire album but stumble over your own name.
@@ZiaHayes143 thats why I said thats how you spoken word, take your moment perform your best pieces and tie
This is the most beautiful, clever, timely, and awe-striking poem I have ever heard. Regardless of any winnings, Safia Elhillo will forever be a notable poet in my book.
Tell me the title of the poem??
I will never stop listening to this. My favorite spoken word I've ever heard.
it doesn't get better than this. I imagine everyone's faces in the crowd were in complete shock at the art they just witnessed.
Tongue of a god, she has.
"The wrong man is an alternative to love" I could listen to Safia all day..
"no language has given me the rhyme between ocean and wound that I know to be true" fuuuck
wow... this is a poem that restarts a heart that has lost its tatse for life, thank you.
Every cell in my body is shaking. this is so beautiful. it reminds me of the story of my own country and my own mother
Title of the poem??
I always come back to this and i cry every time
This is amazing I was left speechless. I felt shivers down my spine
No matter how many times I return to these poems, I'm still awestruck by them.
Can you tell me the title of the poem??
The poet is reading about a dozen short poems back to back. The comment below mine actually writes out each poem and their start times - The book that a lot (if not all) of these poems are in is called The January Children by Safia Elhillo and it's available on Amazon and from the University of Nebraska Press. Hope that helps!
Thanks🙏🌹
i have now listened to this more than 10 times - beautiful
I could listen to this woman for a long forever
I was going to quote a little piece of this poem but every line of them is pure gold
PSA if you listen to this while a storm is going on its pure magic
I NEED ACHANCE OF ONE FULL DAY AT LEAST TO SHOOSE THE WORDS, TO COMMENT.
Safia, you make me proud to be Sudanese!
so beautiful. so so so so beautiful.
Safia. Wow. Deep rooted. The light shines through her eyes. Simply amazing, both her and the poem.
I"m honestly lost for words....I mean.......What sensible thing can I say to describe how beautiful this was!?
Really great! An inspiration to aspiring poets and musicians like me!! Thank you!
I always come back to this video for a cry and a swollen heart❤️
She is soo fierce and honest its amazing to think there are women like her what a badass😘
Regardless of how many times I watch this video i can't but be blown away every single time. This is one of the most beautiful thing i've ever heard. Absolutely beautiful and thought provoking
Wow. I am speechless. And it took me at least 10 minutes to actually right this comment because I was awe struck by this poetry. Wow, just wow.
This is stunning. She is so beautifully poised in the way she recites and everything flows so well! That must be at least 6 different poems back to back. What an inspiration. She made me feel.
Title plzz??
This moved me! Beautiful spoken and poignantly written. Thank you for sharing!
Storypoet Smith kk
Wow wow wow, I've heard good things about Safia for years! Don't know why it's taken me this long to check her out, this was so beautiful.
i've been crying over this for the past hour, i've watched it now 3 times.
What did I just watch??? This is amazing!! Congrats Aziza, and thank you!
This is actually Safia Elhillo (Aziza is the recommended poet in the description) :)
Oh sorry haha
Congrats Safia :) You're incredible
+Button Poetry did she win the competition?
speechless
I keep coming back to this, time and time again. She's majestic and mesmerising. She hooks me in and ground me with with every line. I wish her much success.
Thank you.
poetry
inspiring woman🙏
Isn't she? One of one!
I'm about to buy that book!
Was commenting as listening about half way through but then a line made me drop my phone and wow, I just....i'm crying. Thank you, ty so much.
I have never heard anything like this. it's awesome, your awesome thank you
What a gorgeous language
Her poetry is a gift to the whole world. I'm so glad she was willing to share it here.
A mouthful, I love this 💗
Nobody does it like Safia. What a writer.
God this is so incredible and doubtlessly breathtaking. I love this so much.
Enjoyed your poems. And your unique word choices enhanced the poems emotional impact and kept me engaged throughout.
I’m a poet specializing in Japanese forms: haiku, tanka, haibun, kyoka, senryu. I hope you don’t mind me sharing a tanka and my haiku, a tribute poem to Bashō’s frog with commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my Basho haiku among her top 10 haiku of all time. What an honor.
Here’s the Bashō poem and commentary:
Bashō’s frog
four hundred years
of ripples
At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA
forum.
The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so
numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this
method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing
about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of the
sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water
As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are ripples and our lives ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain.
~~
And my tanka:
returning home
from a Jackson Pollock
exhibition
I smear my face with paint
and morph into art
~~
-All love in isolation
from Miami Beach,
Florida,
Al
The segment of the test about Oum Kalthum had me sobbing a minute in.
these pieces are beautiful. her words are beautiful. she is beautiful. i wish i was as confident as her.
This made me cry so hard. I swear I felt every word she said.
I still love her as a poet in 2024
this was one of the best poems I have ever had the pleasure of experiencing. thank you so much for sharing.
و أنا هويت هذه القصيدة الملقاة.
Amazing.
It was amazing..... she is beautiful....
I have no words for how brilliant this is!
She describes my entire life in few minutes. Simply impeccable!
i cried so many times at cupsi watching this.
SHE KILLED IT
This was everything I wanted and even more.
oh sister you make me cry really you are awsome and reflected good image about our sudanese art
That is a masterpiece
Okay... I've watched this poem three times in a row. That's 45 minutes listening to the same poem.
Can you tell me the title of the poem? Plzz
mashaAllah. i never stop being stunned by this breathtaking piece
this is absolutely breathtaking, i feel like i can relate a lot. i've watched it so many times, that now i know every word by heart, like safia knows the phone numbers of the ones who have lied the most.
Wow. I've got goose bumps.
This is my poetry coach!!!! Yas Safia show them
Safia Loved your poem it is amazing .
Safia's poems are amazing. She is pretty too.
diaspora blues
here you are
too foreign for home
too foreign for here
never enough for both
This so beautiful and very right
I AM SHOOK
New favorite poet!!
Wow. I'm impressed. :)
Beautiful, from start to finish
Made me sob. Beautiful.
Beautiful. Hanging on every word
wow
صفية الحِلو ، هل لي بأن أفخر كل الفخر لأننا فقط من منطقة واحدة ، من الأبنوس من المهوقني ، من شلالات جبل مرة من نيلاً أبيض وآخر أزرق ، من شمس السادسة صباحاً ، من أمطار الغرق..! هل لي بفخر ان أفخر بك..؟
This poem is so beautiful, I want to weep.
I haven't heard anything more beautiful !
Beautiful!
this is beyond amazing. thank you and greetings from Egypt
Woah! I love this so much.
I wish I knew Arabic. This entire poem is beautiful :)
WOW
sssshit, she had me hung on every word.
انا مش فاهم حاجة لكن كلماتها دخلت قلبي بقوة .. اى لف سودان
So eerie and beautiful at the same time.
رائع، ويستحق الترجمة إلى العربية..
This is so beautiful. No words...
Unparalleled.
Wow, I have no words, this is amazing...
That's beyond beautiful!!
I feel humbled by your wisdom. Thank you.
It was so beuatiful loved it 😍❤️😘💯💯❤️❤️😇
Absolutely stunning.
I'm snapping so much great piece