Yahia Lababidi
@ysl.bsky.social
Author of 🇵🇸 Palestine Wail, What Remains To Be Said & 11 other books : aphorisms, poetry, essays, and conversations.
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Exploring art, spirit, and conscience.
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
👉 https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0042SRQWG
Exploring art, spirit, and conscience.
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
Pinned
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
George Eliot
George Eliot
February 10, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
George Eliot
George Eliot
Imperious despot, insolent in strife,
Lover of ruin, enemy of life!
You mock the anguish of an impotent land
Whose people’s blood has stained your tyrant hand,
And desecrate the magic of this earth,
sowing your thorns, to bring despair to birth
— Abul Qasim al-Shabi,
The Tyrant #poetry
Lover of ruin, enemy of life!
You mock the anguish of an impotent land
Whose people’s blood has stained your tyrant hand,
And desecrate the magic of this earth,
sowing your thorns, to bring despair to birth
— Abul Qasim al-Shabi,
The Tyrant #poetry
February 10, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Imperious despot, insolent in strife,
Lover of ruin, enemy of life!
You mock the anguish of an impotent land
Whose people’s blood has stained your tyrant hand,
And desecrate the magic of this earth,
sowing your thorns, to bring despair to birth
— Abul Qasim al-Shabi,
The Tyrant #poetry
Lover of ruin, enemy of life!
You mock the anguish of an impotent land
Whose people’s blood has stained your tyrant hand,
And desecrate the magic of this earth,
sowing your thorns, to bring despair to birth
— Abul Qasim al-Shabi,
The Tyrant #poetry
Leap, and the Net will appear.
February 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Leap, and the Net will appear.
You can't be too dismissive
of the puppet show—so long
as you have strings attached
Seek your freedom, marionette
and take back your reins
into your own firm hands.
youtube.com/shorts/PyMPo... #poetry #writing
of the puppet show—so long
as you have strings attached
Seek your freedom, marionette
and take back your reins
into your own firm hands.
youtube.com/shorts/PyMPo... #poetry #writing
February 10, 2026 at 4:30 PM
You can't be too dismissive
of the puppet show—so long
as you have strings attached
Seek your freedom, marionette
and take back your reins
into your own firm hands.
youtube.com/shorts/PyMPo... #poetry #writing
of the puppet show—so long
as you have strings attached
Seek your freedom, marionette
and take back your reins
into your own firm hands.
youtube.com/shorts/PyMPo... #poetry #writing
This morning, an essay of mine, 'Field Notes from the Desert’ has been accepted for a forthcoming issue of @channel-lit.bsky.social , #Ireland
channelmag.org
#nature #photography © Zakaria Wakrim
channelmag.org
#nature #photography © Zakaria Wakrim
February 10, 2026 at 2:34 PM
This morning, an essay of mine, 'Field Notes from the Desert’ has been accepted for a forthcoming issue of @channel-lit.bsky.social , #Ireland
channelmag.org
#nature #photography © Zakaria Wakrim
channelmag.org
#nature #photography © Zakaria Wakrim
The poet must not cross an interval with a step when he can cross it with a leap.
Joubert
Joubert
February 10, 2026 at 3:03 AM
The poet must not cross an interval with a step when he can cross it with a leap.
Joubert
Joubert
…a man tormented by the cursed ambition to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and that sentence in one word…
— Joubert
— Joubert
February 10, 2026 at 2:56 AM
…a man tormented by the cursed ambition to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and that sentence in one word…
— Joubert
— Joubert
I polish not my phrase, but my idea.
I linger till the drop of light I need forms and falls from my pen.
Joubert
I linger till the drop of light I need forms and falls from my pen.
Joubert
February 10, 2026 at 2:29 AM
I polish not my phrase, but my idea.
I linger till the drop of light I need forms and falls from my pen.
Joubert
I linger till the drop of light I need forms and falls from my pen.
Joubert
“I love blank paper more than ever, and I no longer wish to give myself the trouble of expressing carefully any thoughts that those worthy of being written upon silk or upon bronze.”
— Joubert (1754-1824)
#quotes #WritingCommunity
— Joubert (1754-1824)
#quotes #WritingCommunity
February 10, 2026 at 2:19 AM
“I love blank paper more than ever, and I no longer wish to give myself the trouble of expressing carefully any thoughts that those worthy of being written upon silk or upon bronze.”
— Joubert (1754-1824)
#quotes #WritingCommunity
— Joubert (1754-1824)
#quotes #WritingCommunity
February 9, 2026 at 10:57 PM
‘You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere.
They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.’
— Kurt Vonnegut
They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.’
— Kurt Vonnegut
February 9, 2026 at 10:55 PM
‘You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere.
They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.’
— Kurt Vonnegut
They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.’
— Kurt Vonnegut
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
— Francoise Sagan
— Francoise Sagan
February 9, 2026 at 9:37 PM
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
— Francoise Sagan
— Francoise Sagan
We work on ourselves so that we might better serve others —and vise versa.
February 9, 2026 at 9:26 PM
We work on ourselves so that we might better serve others —and vise versa.
“You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.”
— Idries Shah
— Idries Shah
February 9, 2026 at 7:29 PM
“You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.”
— Idries Shah
— Idries Shah
'The #artist is a lawyer who defends any accused person when society plays the role of the judge.
I am generally biased for injustice and those stripped off their rights.'
— Egyptian Artist : Walid Ebeid ( وليد عبيد) #art #Egypt
www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/culture... #culture #writing
I am generally biased for injustice and those stripped off their rights.'
— Egyptian Artist : Walid Ebeid ( وليد عبيد) #art #Egypt
www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/culture... #culture #writing
February 9, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Villanelle I
The crack is moving down the wall.
Defective plaster isn't all the cause.
We must remain until the roof falls in.
It's mildly cheering to recall
That every building has its little flaws.
The crack is moving down the wall.
—Weldon Kees
youtube.com/shorts/F5VX4... #mentalhealth #poet
The crack is moving down the wall.
Defective plaster isn't all the cause.
We must remain until the roof falls in.
It's mildly cheering to recall
That every building has its little flaws.
The crack is moving down the wall.
—Weldon Kees
youtube.com/shorts/F5VX4... #mentalhealth #poet
February 9, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Villanelle I
The crack is moving down the wall.
Defective plaster isn't all the cause.
We must remain until the roof falls in.
It's mildly cheering to recall
That every building has its little flaws.
The crack is moving down the wall.
—Weldon Kees
youtube.com/shorts/F5VX4... #mentalhealth #poet
The crack is moving down the wall.
Defective plaster isn't all the cause.
We must remain until the roof falls in.
It's mildly cheering to recall
That every building has its little flaws.
The crack is moving down the wall.
—Weldon Kees
youtube.com/shorts/F5VX4... #mentalhealth #poet
Seriousness kneels; play winks.
Both honor the same mystery.
youtube.com/@yahia.labab... #poetry #writingcommunity #quotes #meditation
Both honor the same mystery.
youtube.com/@yahia.labab... #poetry #writingcommunity #quotes #meditation
February 9, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Seriousness kneels; play winks.
Both honor the same mystery.
youtube.com/@yahia.labab... #poetry #writingcommunity #quotes #meditation
Both honor the same mystery.
youtube.com/@yahia.labab... #poetry #writingcommunity #quotes #meditation
New documentary about the mysterious, melancholic poet, Weldon Kees:
youtu.be/k9GPoadHBtU?...
#danagioia #poetry #film #writingcommunity #video
youtu.be/k9GPoadHBtU?...
#danagioia #poetry #film #writingcommunity #video
Weldon Kees: The Disappearing Poet
YouTube video by Dana Gioia
youtu.be
February 9, 2026 at 3:42 AM
New documentary about the mysterious, melancholic poet, Weldon Kees:
youtu.be/k9GPoadHBtU?...
#danagioia #poetry #film #writingcommunity #video
youtu.be/k9GPoadHBtU?...
#danagioia #poetry #film #writingcommunity #video
February 8, 2026 at 8:14 PM
“Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.”
you would be willing to kill.”
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 PM
“Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.”
you would be willing to kill.”
Small Prayer
Change, move, dead clock, that this fresh day
May break with dazzling light to these sick eyes.
Burn, glare, old sun, so long unseen...
— Weldon Kees
youtube.com/shorts/IO11v... #poetry
Change, move, dead clock, that this fresh day
May break with dazzling light to these sick eyes.
Burn, glare, old sun, so long unseen...
— Weldon Kees
youtube.com/shorts/IO11v... #poetry
February 8, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Small Prayer
Change, move, dead clock, that this fresh day
May break with dazzling light to these sick eyes.
Burn, glare, old sun, so long unseen...
— Weldon Kees
youtube.com/shorts/IO11v... #poetry
Change, move, dead clock, that this fresh day
May break with dazzling light to these sick eyes.
Burn, glare, old sun, so long unseen...
— Weldon Kees
youtube.com/shorts/IO11v... #poetry