Wael Abdelgawad's Blog, page 7
June 3, 2017
Poem: I Say Yes
Stuck in place
still I push ahead
World says no
I say yes
Too much suffering
Still I hope
Too much loss
Still I love
Fog of silence in the air
I whisper, “I care.”
Lies rule the world
I watch the thread of truth unfurl
You push me away
I bow at the waist
Been lost for years
I peer ahead
Bruised and sore
I reach for the open door.
Wael Abdelgawad
Fresno, California
June 3, 2017
Poem: Still I Walk
Stuck in place
still I walk
World says no
I say yes
Too much suffering
Still I hope
Too much loss
Still I love
Fog of silence in the air
I whisper, “I care.”
Lies rule the world
I watch the thread of truth unfurl
You push me away
I bow at the waist
Been lost for years
I peer ahead
Bruised and sore
I reach for the open door.
Wael Abdelgawad
Fresno, California
June 3, 2017
May 31, 2017
How to Welcome Ramadan in Turbulent Times
This is a recent article of mine published on MuslimMatters.org. Please read and comment there:
May 30, 2017
Huge Thank You to GoFundMe Donators!
Thank you!
Wael Abdelgawad | WaelAbdelgawad.com
Thanks a million to the ten donors who contributed to my GoFundMe campaign to raise money to publish my next novel, The Repeaters. A giant thanks especially do the anonymous individual who donated $335.
Typesetting should begin in about a week, and cover design will begin on June 20th. I expect the novel to be published by mid July at the latest, Insha’Allah.
Thanks again to all you donors and readers. You’re the best.
May 24, 2017
What would you do if you could return to childhood?
By Wael Abdelgawad | WaelAbdelgawad.com
What would you do if you could go back to the age of five, retaining all the knowledge, skills and abilities you now possess, and live your life over again? If you’re a Karate black belt, you’d be a five year old with the skills of a black belt. Maybe know how to rebuild a car, do advanced mathematics or perform brain surgery.
Looking at it another way, maybe there’s someone who is gone from your life, and you wish you had valued them more. Well, you’d...
May 17, 2017
Never Give Up On Your Dreams
You can achieve your dreams, God willing.
By Wael Abdelgawad | WaelAbdelgawad.com
You don’t to be enormously talented, highly intelligent, rich or gifted to succeed in life. You just have to persist in pursuit of your goals and not give up, and of course trust in God to safeguard you along the path.
After writing for decades, this year I finally met one of my lifelong goals: publication of my first novel, Pieces of a Dream. And I’m not stopping there. I intend to publish at least four more bo...
May 4, 2017
“The Repeaters” – A Synopsis
The Repeaters, by Wael Abdelgawad
To help fund the publication of The Repeaters, please contribute to my GoFundMe campaign.
Here is a synopsis:
The Repeaters is a novel that alternates between the present-day and various other periods in history, beginning about 100,000 years ago in the Middle Paleolithic era. Here’s a synopsis:
A select group of men and women live hidden among us. They are known as repeaters, and they reincarnate again and again, growing stronger with each cycle. They inhabi...
May 3, 2017
The Bright Path
By Wael Abdelgawad | Wael Abdelgawad.com
“It is said the warrior’s is the twofold way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
This my life, though I would add three more ways: the way of faith, the way of family, and the way of friendship. These five ways – pen, sword, faith, family and friendship – merge into a single bright path. That is the path I walk.
April 27, 2017
Poem: If I Were a Middle-Aged Angel
By Wael Abdelgawad | Wael Abdelgawad.com
If I were a middle-aged angel
wearing holy hi-tops and shining with light
placing every foot right
my hands never shaking
never having to recline the seat in the car
and close my eyes, just sit there
breathing, my heart quaking,
trying to figure out what to do next,
how to fix the wreck that is my life –
then I wouldn’t need the light
of the Most High. I wouldn’t need
to fall to my knees and pray,
always for someone else first –
my father, daughter, S...
April 25, 2017
Walking and Seeing the World Up Close
By Wael Abdelgawad | WaelAbdelgawad.com
I locked myself out of the car this morning at the gym. I might have taken the bus home to fetch my spare key, but I locked my wallet in the car as well and had not a penny on me. So I began to walk home. The gym is five miles from my house.
I drive this route often, but when you walk, you see things that you never would from the insulated bubble of a car cruising at 40 miles per hour.
The geese in the flood control district at Nees and Fresno have chi...
