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Happiness is something that you can never control .It's something comes and goes . You can never be truly , always happy .

BAKAR AND HIS LIFE


Aboubakar was born in 1980 in Kayanza province northern Burundi , He studied his primary education in Burundi and later furthered his secondary education in Uganda where he had a High school diploma in Economics and accounts from Kawempe High school .He currently resides in Cairo where He joined between cultures & interpreting education at The American University in Cairo(AUC)and he is now working as a community interpreter. In his words, Poems are holistic expressions of mind and soul. They go beyond the words of _expression and touch hidden places in life and nature. They emanate from daily living and experiences. These poems point to all aspects of life and cannot be compressed to a particular form. The idea behind each and every one of these poems is the spontaneity of feelings and experiences in our lives, environment and relationship with God. The fountain of ideas open to wet and water the soil of life which is our foundation .



 


Why do I write


Well, for many reasons of course.I write because it is a really good way to get out everything that you are feeling inside. It also makes me proud when i can put together a good piece.       
 Writing is something i absolutely adore it's my entire world. When i write i never hold back, ever emotion in ever word is concealed with a deeper meaning. When i write i have a voice in being heard, i have an image that i am able to substain that it is my true self. I am able to express the emotions i can not in my everyday life, writing is my ablility to be weak, and what i mean as weak is to show fear. In my typical days mon-sun I have this image that people think i am a strong individual because of the many hard challenges i was able to strive throught, but writing lets me show my weak side, my tears, my pain, my sorrow, everything....writing is my outlet to not being strong...it shows that i cry, i feel pain, i hurt just like anyone else....writing is my world but in bigger sense...it's my everyday life!
take care


Thank you God to send an engle to protect me

Interview


Why did you decide to write poems 


I didn't decide - they just started happening. When I was a teenager I hated school - I wrote poems for myself, and never for a moment thought they had anything to do with what we did in English. Then I began reading and imitating Keats, Dylan Thomas and Shelley among others - imitating them very badly! But I enjoyed it immensely. Gradually, through writing song lyrics for a spectacularly unsuccessful pop group, I found my own voice. I've been writing poems ever since, though they come less frequently now - but it's still just as exciting.


What do you like best about being a poet?


I love the intensity of playing with words, savouring their different sounds and tastes, feeling their weight in my imagination. Seeing the world through images helps to remind me what a miraculous place it is.


If you weren't a poet, what else would you be?


I couldn't imagine not writing poems.
Other things I would like to do: to have played serious football, been a musician - either a composer or a jazz pianist.


As it is, I also write novels, short stories and plays. I sometimes work with musicians (opera libretti and the like) and work with children, helping them to have fun with their own imaginations - I really enjoy that.


Recently I have begun writing essay-type pieces for the newspapers - sometimes funny, sometimes serious, often both - this is new for me and keeps me on my toes with deadlines, word-counts and the like. It is a pleasure to see my work in print only a few days later - when I write a poem I usually wait for months, years sometimes, till it's published.


What or who has had the greatest influence on your poems?


Music of all kinds. Friends of all kinds.


Can you tell me best three poems you like I should in read website ?


yah i like all my poems may be i can say that i have my three favority poems like

Black history
The color of discrimination and The feeling i can't explain


Take any anthology, open it at random and read the poem that's in front of you. It was important to at least two people, the poet and the editor. Read it again, this time very carefully - and try to see how it could be important to you. If it doesn't work for you, try to understand why not.


What top tips would you give to aspiring young poets?


Trust your imagination - and keep writing. If possible show your work to friends, listen to their feedback. You don't have to do what they suggest, but at least consider what they think. Maybe you have a couple of friends who also write - then share each other's work and talk about it. Writing can feel an isolating affair - but it doesn't have to be.


Also, read as much as you can. At your school you will find the poems people used to write in the past - it is worth remembering that these men and women started writing just like you at one time. , you will find poetry magazines filled with the poems and stories being written now. Read them too. Maybe one day soon you will have a poem in there yourself!





My first poem

                                                 Coming Home

Daddy, I am on my way home
They treated me bad
They did not love me
They did not want me
They did not help me
I had no one to turn to
I am on my own again
I do not want to give up
But my strength is gone
Crying like a baby
There is no point
Things will not get better
If no one will help me
I might as well come home
Will you pick me up at the gate?