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hakim-kassim
hakim-kassim
M HAKIM H. KASSIM has been writing poetry for years, holding Percy Shelley and John Keats as model-poets. Kassim believes poetry to be a vehicle for social change, though he is disillusioned with human reason, preferring to leave it with dashed hopes.
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)
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Feb 24
Feb 24, 2026 at 7:10 AM UTC
-'Was beauty ever known!'
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)
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Feb 20
Feb 20, 2026 at 12:37 PM UTC
-'Was Beauty Ever Known Before?'
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)
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Dec 13, 2025
Dec 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM UTC
-Into My Own.
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).
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Oct 31, 2025
Oct 31, 2025 at 5:44 AM UTC
-A Passing Thought.
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)
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Aug 15, 2025
Aug 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM UTC
- Thoughts (-fragments).
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.
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Jul 7, 2025
Jul 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM UTC
-'Beauty of the Worlds!'-3.
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)
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Jul 2, 2025
Jul 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM UTC
-'It Rained in Him Who Thought in the Dark!'
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)
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Apr 29, 2025
Apr 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM UTC
-expression no. 24.
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).
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Apr 27, 2025
Apr 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM UTC
-To S______.
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)
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Apr 15, 2025
Apr 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM UTC
-SHE Is.