All photos courtesy of Jerry Smith.
Dubai 1971
Author: khawagakid
Currently editing my memoir called Khawaga Kid. My first flight was age four. I fell in love with travel. I often heard people ask "Who is she? She's not from around here." Always a foreigner...even in my own family. Khawaga means foreigner in Egyptian Arabic.
TBI Traumatic Brain Injury
We lost her twice
Sheesh before the wreck
Sheesh after the wreck
My own brain
Processing
Progressing
Old Houses on Red Dirt Roads
Social Distancing
Travel? I do.
Find a dirt road
Or two
Old Home Places
Ghostly faces
Past leaves traces
Now I have the time
Photography and Rhyme
Family 1984-1986
Narcissist No Contact
You taught me a lot. Both of you. All of you.
You both taught me to know my enemy.
The Cobra
AND
The Cottonmouth
Don’t Fall For It!
A Poem for Afghanistan
Greetings from the Philippines! Distressed by the photos I have been seeing these days, I have penned a short poem for our Afghan brothers and sisters. Thanks for reading and I hope that you all continue to pray for them. Sending love and light to eveyone. A POEM FOR AFGHANISTAN Born from the tumultuous history […]
A Poem for Afghanistan
how friends can destroy or construct your life
We always become affected contaminated by different ideas and thoughts from the people who we believe and sometimes they take a chance and acts as our lovely friends, The following are the ways by which our friends can affect our life.
how friends can destroy or construct your life
Fireworks in My Head
I saw stars
Bright Light
Explosion
Flashback
July Fourth
Freedom?
Fighting
Fifty-four years
Flash!
Slapped
Bang!
Head knocked
Counter blow
How far will he go?
I never know
Then I wake
Curled in a ball
Sweating
One day
I’ll be free
Red, white & blue
Pretty fireworks
Purple & blue
Flesh healed
Psyche bruised
But healing
Writing my way to
Freedom
Living in the safest home I ever had with my husband. 2012 I began to heal. I had to get sober first and I am still a work in progress. Even my bad days now are better than my good days then.
Evil Eye
Khawaga Kid 