“Poetry is all around us. Wherever there is be beauty to be admired, joy to be felt, sorrow to be consoled, hurt to be tended, indignation to be expressed, and love to be shared… there will be Poetry.
Poetry records our most precious moments in eloquent sentiment.”
Randa’s poetry is noteworthy, not only as a chronicle of the major events that have affected the Arab/Muslim individual a few decades back, but also as a record of the emotional response to these events. Perhaps influenced by her multi-cultural background, Randa sees Humanity on a single plane where all acts that hurt or terrorize people are equally reprehensible and unjustifiable, no matter the conviction or the argument.
Voicing the heartache of the innocent, she communicated the homesickness of displaced families, house-keys that had lost their purpose, the trauma of orphaned children and bereaved parents, the helplessness of the elderly, and the feelings of people dying alone beneath bombed concrete.
Having already lived these tragedies in her poetry, when Syria was ravaged by war and the worst of these scenes were revived daily in front of her, the poetry froze in her veins.
The only poem Randa wrote after that was ‘A Message from Our Conscience,’ penned during the Corona pandemic lockdowns.
Randa hopes and prays that voices of truth and expressions of compassion come together and rise in peace, fading out all voices of aggression, helping this earth cradle our young when we are gone.
