بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
📱 Alhamdulillah while browsing around the net I found some of my old poems published on a number of websites where poets and writers from various countries can upload their creative writings. Many of these poems were posted when I was around 24 years old while my dear parents (Allah yarhamhuma. Ameen) were still alive.
Sharing some random facts/truths about me related to writing poetry:
✨ Alhamdulillah writing poems became one of my hobbies when I was around 13 years old. At age 17 if I'm not mistaken one of my rhyming poems was published by "International Society Of Poets" and funnily my dear father (Allah yarhamhu. Ameen) had to pay for the award certificate with an expensive frame and trophy shipped from one of the countries in the West to Riyadh city that time.
✨ By the time I was around 19 years old if I'm not mistaken I already wrote more than 300 poems Alhamdulillah and after several years I'd say I have written approximately more than 500 or 600 poems if you include the ones posted in some of my blogs etc. I know because I numbered many of them Alhamdulillah.
✨ I prefer rhyming poems with fixed number of syllables per line instead of "free verse".
✨ I recall how my husband and I, when we first got married, were considering starting a duet band (very cheesy, I know. And AstaghfurAllah Al-'Atheem) in which he'd play the guitar (yes he has a talent in playing the guitar like one of his younger brothers does) while he'd sing the so-called "nasheed lyrics" which I would compose for him but Alhamdulillah Allah the Most Wise inspired us to cancel that weird project and instead firmly believe that listening to music and composing nonsensical songs should be avoided as much as possible in Islam since they distract us from the more important matters like reading the Noble Qur'an and saying Du'a and Adhkaar frequently.
🌻 Inn-sha-Allah I'm offering tutorial classes via Google Meet conducted in English language for kids, teens and adults who are curious or willing to learn how to write rhyming poetry without needing the assistance of AI (artificial intelligence like ChatGPT and Gemini AI). The student can choose the timing when we're both available and the tutorial fee is just 250 php per session. Within 7 meetings Inn-sha-Allah they (Muslim or non-Muslim) should be able to learn how to compose their own rhyming poems without asking AI to construct a poem for them.
🌼Some links (omit/remove the spaces I intentionally added so the links would be included in this post):
https://www.slideshare.net/IslamicWisdom
https://www.poemhunter.com/miriam-mababaya/poems/
https://justsharingislam.blogspot.com/2015/01/
