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Grey
A meditation on the color of survival beneath gloomy skies Grey is the color no one pauses for too humble to dazzle like silver, too...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Sep 17, 20252 min read


Kingdom of Forever
"Kingdom of Forever" and Other Poems You remind me of a prince, A dream I thought I’d lost. You made the magic return to my life, When I...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Jul 27, 20255 min read


Then the Lamp Starts to Look Strange
You may not feel the same but I’m grateful I loved you and held that space beside you for as long as fate allowed. ( If you don’t know...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Jul 21, 20253 min read


The Dreamers Don’t Survive
Life is not just one closed door. It’s a maze of them. But if your dreams still ache… some part of you is still alive. All I’ve learned...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Jul 14, 20253 min read


Ballad of Broken Hope
How silly of me to expect too much of someone once more, who didn't even know what I felt for him, and for getting too attached to soon,...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Jun 25, 20255 min read


Lady of the Lake
A short story of Lost Names, Ancient Lakes, and the One Love Left Behind. Where Sirens Sing, Old Lovers Weep, and Fishermen Get Involved....
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
May 23, 202511 min read


The Elegy of Petals
The Flowers die first. Inspired by when you'd once told me you would gift me a rose for every day we lived and aged, when you are an old...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
May 12, 20252 min read


Remember Me?
The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
May 12, 20256 min read


Promises That Drowned Me: The Cruelty of Almost
A letter to You: There’s a particular kind of grief in being hurt by someone not through grand betrayals, but through small, deliberate...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
May 11, 20256 min read


Where Grief Grows Its Children
“Love...I put so much faith in it. Truth...I kept believing it falls always from the top lips of the one you love and trust the most....
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
May 10, 20256 min read


Picture This (A Love Like Dying)
“Perhaps lovers aren't supposed to look down at the ground. That kind of story is told in symbols--and earth represents reality, and...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
May 10, 20253 min read


The Last Dream Before They Take Me
“I suppose it’s obvious that what was ignited when I loved you continues to burn. But that’s of small importance to you now, and that’s...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
May 4, 20256 min read


And I Will Remember You in Madness
For you promised you'd burn with me, but you never did. You stayed in the safety of your shore and saw me fade away. But your promises...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
May 4, 20253 min read


Portrait of the Man I Love
—a painting made of language for I cannot draw him, so I shape him with syllables— his smile, the sacred chaos in his thoughts, the way...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Apr 16, 20255 min read


Asylum by the Sea
—for the one I could not keep The sea sings to me beneath pale skies, each wave a whispering psalm of forgetting. I sit in an all-white...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Apr 16, 20252 min read


Where Did You Go, My Ghostly Love?
Wish you were here. I would give anything for you to materialize in front of me. Where did you go, my ghostly love— the whisper in the...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Apr 3, 20253 min read


Ode to Devotion: Fides Aeterna
Inspired by timeless myths of love, this is an ode to sacrifice, and devotion, and delves into the heart of a wife’s unwavering...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Mar 31, 20256 min read


Clockwork Girl
What a failure to be hated by the only man who ever loved me. I wish I could craft a clockwork girl, one with gears spun from borrowed...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Mar 31, 20252 min read


Short Poems
Some of my shorter poems that I wrote over the years. Death and the Maiden Death had fallen for the maiden so fair, Adorning her locks...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Mar 28, 20252 min read


The Heights
Inspired by love that expired. Leave me, but do not leave this earth— do not vanish beyond the veil where even my prayers cannot reach...
Inaba Ishfar Tarek
Mar 28, 20253 min read
Maybe it's too late, but you'll forever live in everything I create
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