
Was beauty ever known before
You came around in the human lore?
Was such a grace in human form ever
wrought,
In the highest image or thought?
-by
Hakim H. Kassim.
(February 22, 2026/Jigjiga)
Feb 24
Feb 24, 2026 at 7:10 AM UTC
Was beauty ever known before
You came around in the human lore?
Was such a grace in human form ever
wrought,
In the highest image or thought?
-by
Hakim H. Kassim.
(February 22, 2026/Jigjiga)
Feb 20
Feb 20, 2026 at 12:37 PM UTC
I cannot say much about people I love,
I've known for so long of weary faces,
And at first word I'll in heart yield and
move,
For years I've sought to help in good
ways;
But the weary brother with heart broken,
Not knowing where to go,
I know you've been done bad, all taken,
Have no worry, for what's owed shall
all be paid, speedy or slow.
-by
Hakim H. Kassim.
(December 13, 2025)
Dec 13, 2025
Dec 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM UTC
In a world of resist and change,
How can pain and pleasure together
exist?
For when you're winning, they question
your right to thrive,
And when you've lost, they deny your
right to live!
Because we naturally need love,
You open up direct, hopeful--as onward
they turn ready to move!
-by Hakim H. Kassim.
(d. October 31, 2025).
Oct 31, 2025
Oct 31, 2025 at 5:44 AM UTC
Pardon this heart that loomily bounced,
That it may in this life's long night
Restored somehow be to household of
peace,
Which, in grave or before,
Can give relief to owner's pain:
>It is concerned tears that aflame flow,
>Which render fatal fears so nearly real.
From first when reason stroke the race on
Solon's tongue,
Strong stood and made its roars heard,
To the ears of that trouble- gotten
Hellenic year,
Whose winter of rage brought drought to
intellect,
Convenience wounds it at chance in
every age:
>If 'winning' we see when guns roar,
>Then dark be right, we to all beauty
blind!
As the cycle of life our Nation impels
Towards the forefront of evil fate,
And loud barks every dog in the land,
Behold!our best in selfish seas swim,
Even as our race red-eyed wearily sways:
>Put the throne upon the ready heads
of the bold,
>And trust no confused men to
confusion clear.
-by
Hakim H. Kassim.
(d. January, 1989)
Aug 15, 2025
Aug 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM UTC
Beauty of the world, don't we so belong?
Say--oh, say it to my beating heart!
Or, if in too much nerve you can't,
Just jump, jump onto me so fast!
Angel in spring, don't you see my heart
torn at core,
Unable with life's turmoil tocope---
A living testimony of the ways
By which one finger alone can't wash
a face!
-by
Hakim H. Kassim.
Jul 7, 2025
Jul 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM UTC
He looked in the mirror and around,
into his own,
He looked out the window and into
the evening,
And, fearing strange words from strong
thoughts,
Hid amid the storms that his heart ruled;
yet:
Had known he should not have travelled
into that good night of thought,
but could not reverse what his fate writ,
Hated to go there with the thunders he
bore inside,
but needed their roar to stay awake,
Felt heart-broken that he'd see home
no more,
lest it rained in him who thought in
the dark!
Do we mistake love for lust?
Or leave out the truth even at price
of loss?
Can man ever overcome his nature and
still breathe?
-by Hakim Kassim.
(c. 1989)
Jul 2, 2025
Jul 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM UTC
a view--
things up in a view.
eyes to see,
heart--in me!
weather in unfairness,
ultimately for goodness.
unhappy, ignored---
unwilling, bored!
but a new-born world--
to reap and wield bold;
nothing from the past to deduce--
it's all a new-born delight to induce!
far-away in the sky clouds merge,
for a new-spring to emerge.
-by
Hakim H. Kassim.
(-d. April 29, 2025)
Apr 29, 2025
Apr 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM UTC
If ever I were to pick one who could quite
understand
Me, in mind and love, across entire
land--
Who'd be the one love in my arms to
hold,
Then and now, as throughout my days
in this world:
The one girl who forever reigns in my
heart and dream,
The only and one face in my mind
agleam;
Forever to caress and truly kiss, and
quietly long watch
Her deep dark eyes, and again sweetly
touch
Her tender small ******* her slender
waist to soothe around,
Breath to breath, with little moans in
sound;
If ever I did, or do, love a girl on earth,
Or ever were to trust heart's hunch
since birth,
It'd be you, S___, in heaven or here--
And whatever you do, or don't, 'bout it,
my vow you hear.
-by
Hakim Kassim.
(-d. April 25, 2025).
Apr 27, 2025
Apr 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM UTC
SHE is known to me in the middle of
the night,
My most familiar figure blossoming
over heart and soul--
The slender-tall ethereal figure with soft
hands holding in holy light
Her small ******* softly on me yet to
caress along, and cajole
Me in infinite sensual energy and desire
to gratify, but to console;
SHE is beyond what in words to express,
what you usually perceive;
SHE carries me gently over all desire
passing and carnal,
To draw me safe and sound, for SHE
would never deceive
All the way till Ultimate Joy in being
abysmal
In the wilderness that is the One, true
and actual!
-by
Hakim Kassim.
(-d. April 15, 2025)
Apr 15, 2025
Apr 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM UTC