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Sheniz Janmohamed

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Sheniz Janmohamed was born and raised in Tkaronto (Toronto) Canada with ancestral ties to Kenya and India. A poet, nature artist and arts educator, Sheniz graduated from the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph-Humber.

Sheniz has been performing her poetry nationally and internationally for 15 years, including features at the Jaipur Literature Festival, Aga Khan Museum, and Vancouver Writers Fest to name a few.

Her writing has been published in numerous journals including Arc Poetry Magazine, CV2, Descant and Canthius. She is a regular contributor for Quill & Quire. She has three collections of poetry, published by Mawenzi House: Bleeding Light (2010), Firesmoke (2014) and Reminders on the Path (2021).

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	Firesmoke 4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bleeding Light 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reminders on the Path 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: An Anthology by Theodore W. Goossen (Editor), Anindo Hazra (Editor), Gordon Anderson (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn.
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To be alone is to be a companion to oneself.

Here we are, collectively alone with the world, forced to honour the micro moments of life– to attend to the present. As always. To sink into the reality that nothing more i

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If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman

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“The child I was
is just one breath away from me.”
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“When the last leaf falls,
what will die within us?”
― Sheniz Janmohamed, Firesmoke

tags: autumn, autumn-leaves, autumn-quotes, can-lit, contemplation, death, fall, fall-leaves, falling, inspirational-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes, seasons, sheniz-janmohamed

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“What melody will our rivers remember if songbirds forget how to sing?”
― Sheniz Janmohamed, Firesmoke

tags: environmental-conservation, environmental-degradation, environmental-protection, environmentalism, inspirational-quotes, life, life-lessons, melody, nature, nature-quotations, nodapl, ornithology, poetry-quotes, rivers, songbirds, water

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“The child I was
is just one breath away from me.”
― Sheniz Janmohamed, Firesmoke

tags: breath, child, childhood, childhood-memories, home, identity, life, loss-of-innocence, nostalgia, poetry-quotes, sheniz-janmohamed, youth

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“Petals don't ask
Where to land

They just fall
With grace.”
― Sheniz Janmohamed, Firesmoke

tags: grace, inspirational-quotes, life, life-lessons, nature, poetry, poetry-quotes

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“There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.”
― Borges, Jorge Luis

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“A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Twenty-Four Conversations with Borges: Interviews by Roberto Alifano 1981-1983

tags: art, purpose, raw-materia, writing

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“How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Borges on Writing

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