Yahia Lababidi

May we never cease to imagine Peace 🕊️ www.youtube.com/@Yahia.Labab...

#Oct7 #October7 #Israel #Gaza #Palestine

“So come, my friends, be not afraid
We are so lightly here
It is in love that we are made
In love we disappear”

— Leonard Cohen

If only I am sensitive, subtle, oh, delicate, a winged gift!
If only, most lovely of all, I yield myself and am borrowed...

—D.H. Lawrence

To try and carry the sum of all we know, in our minds and hearts, at all times...

YouTube video by YAHIA LABABIDI On the Contrary: Wilde & Nietzsche | A Book for Lovers of Wit and Wisdom by Yahia Lababidi

🔥 Wilde & Nietzsche Meet

On the Contrary: The Great Contrarians arrives Oct 15 from Fomite Press.

Here’s a short video trailer that captures their dance of wit & wisdom:

🎥 youtu.be/ax6v01GCXSo?...

#OscarWilde #Nietzsche #Philosophy #Art #Poetry #LiteraryCulture #booksky #YahiaLababidi #Writing

"Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled,
made nothing?
Are you willing to be made nothing?
dipped into oblivion?
If not, you will never really change."

— D.H.Lawrence

Do not to close our hearts to refugees 🙏🏼

Make the attempt for one day only…

Those to whom evil is done - Overland literary journal What we need now is not more weapons or false neutrality. We need a reckoning. And we need imagination: a vision of coexistence built on equality, not exclusion. The idea that one people must disappea...

The violence of October 7 is part of ongoing dispossession and dehumanization.

Pity the 70,000 Palestinians that Israel has killed in revenge, mostly women and children. Read & learn:

overland.org.au/2025/06/thos... #Gaza #Palestine #news #Israel

“You do not know what you will earn tomorrow.”

#Quran 31:34

#Gratitude

Take nothing for granted. Even a rock will eventually surrender to the sea and love can slip away like sand through fingers.

@michaelfaudet.bsky.social
#love #poetry

What the system cannot use, it flushes out— whereas the (spirit) protein it translates into #poetry...

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Yes, or Bookshop.org or my publisher: darajapress.com/publication/... Thank you, for your support 🇵🇸

Thanks, for your support. Purchasing my book directly from my publisher is best:

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Coming Soon ✨

On Nietzsche's birthday, this October 15th, Fomite Press will release a short new book of mine, for lovers of wit and wisdom: reflections on the life and literature of two great contrarians: Oscar Wilde and Friedrich Nietzsche.

#booksky #philosophy #literature

Amen 🙏🏼

"Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved" — Saint Seraphim of Sarov

"The greatest victory over cynicism is hope. Let your heart be as soft and supple as a peach—easily bruised at its sweetest."

— Sharon Dolin, poet, aphorist, translator

If you might care to review it (Amazon/ Goodreads) I can send you an ecopy 😊
Lababidi.Ink @ Gmail

Morning Prayer of St. Francis

Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily; to lean on your great strength, trustfully, restfully; to wait for the unfolding of your will, patiently, serenely; to meet others, peacefully, joyfully; to face tomorrow, confidently, courageously.

I see it, too 😞

😱

Sliman Mansour is a Palestinian national treasure, Peter, and an artist worth knowing: www.instagram.com/sliman.mansour

Road Near Arles by Van Gogh #art

Thank you, for sharing. I have deep respect for his art/activism and he inspired my work, too: darajapress.com/publication/...

#art by Sliman Mansour

Temporary escape, oil on canvas, 2018

#Palestine

Powerful artist. I’m very fortunate that he gifted me the cover #art of my #Palestine book 🇵🇸

darajapress.com/publication/... #booksky #poetrycommunity #Gaza #poetry #writing #news

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The people fancy they hate #poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prayer of St. Francis, that I encountered in a monastery in Italy:

Most High, glorious God,
enlighten the darkness of my heart,
and give me right faith, certain hope, and perfect charity,
sense and knowledge, Lord,
that I may carry out Your holy and true command.