these two links lead to one of my poems that is nominated on poetry.com. please click on the links and rate it, you can also do a search under Mohammad Al-Hamdani in poetry.com and find my other poems and rate them, thanks.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Tragedy strikes an innocent!!!!
I’m writing this piece with a tear rolling down my check. This tear left my eye to fall and die when I heard how one of my best friends, Jalal Jarmah, met his doom. Jalal was hit by a car while walking on the sidewalk holding his little daughter and watching his four nephews and nieces after leaving the Berlin Park in Sana’a. Jalal threw his little daughter away when he saw the car driving insanely towards him; he saved his little girl’s life but couldn’t spare his own. Jalal suffered two severely broken legs and an internal bleeding caused by the impact of the car’s front leading to a smashed liver. This car was driven by a young reckless kid who was given the green light by his lousy irresponsible father. This all leads me to wonder about law enforcement in my country. This kid was driving in the middle of the day without license. The ugliest part is the offender family’s attitude. They don’t want to bear the accountability for their mistake and we all know denial is not the way out. They want to convince everybody that their kid is just a young nice innocent boy who shouldn’t be held accountable for what happened. A question pops in my mind, where the heck were the innocence and responsibility when the kid was exceeding the speed limit and hitting a pedestrian way off the road??! Some have suggested that this could have been a murder! It is no accident when a car chases the victim to the sidewalk and into the trap of death. Finally, may Jalal rest in peace and I just wrote this to vent my sadness and speak up for my dead friend who is incapable of saying anything for himself now!!
Thursday, May 24, 2007
The 2006 World Cup...Zizo's incident and the outstanding teams!!
Zidane rocks there is not doubt about it but he should've been a bit more patient. When such a huge star acts in such unsportsmanlike manner, then it is just sad. This is the third time Zidane behaves in such a way, the first was in the 1998 world cup hosted by France when he stomped Fuad Anwar the Saudi midfielder, then he head-butted another play in the champions league when playing for Real Madrid.
England did not impress me and Rooney was stupid enough to step on a Portuguese player and deserved to be sent off. Ironically, Rooney was extremely mad at his fellow Manchester United winger, Christiano Ronaldo for defending the injured Portuguese player. Rooney totally forgot that Ronaldo was playing for the national Portuguese team in the world cup not in a premier league game.
France started slow but they really caught up later and played great soccer they, however, lacked the destroying offense ability. Playing with a single forward is not a very good idea particularly if the striker got skills and always moves around instead of positioning smartly in the 18 yard box to snipe chances.
Argentina did a great job as a whole team but their coach was not that good. How can a coach not invite Javier Zaniti and Walter Samuel to his roster? They are two of the best players in Europe and they got plenty of experience. Players like Lional Messi and Carlos Teves, who got crucial skills and insights, were sitting on the bench all the time and when they had the chance they showed everybody what they can do and actually did to Serbia and Montenegro. Jose Beckerman is widely famous for winning world cups but for the under 21 teams not the first teams. I really wanted to see the Tango dancers make it to the finale but next
Brazil no doubt was the worst; Ronaldinho sucked big time but that could be due to the long season he had with Barcelona. The only bright star in the samba roster was Kaka who is really one of the best midfielders in the world. Choppy Ronaldo did manage to be the top scorer of all world cups but it was in a very flat and unimpressive way.
Italy played ok but they won it with there steel-like defense and this proves that the calcio is the best soccer league; the 23 Italian players are all playing in the calcio. Top players like Cassano were not invited to the Italian roster for the mere fact of playing outside Italy, even if they were playing for big teams like Real Madrid as in Cassano’s case. What distinguished Italy is their team work. They had fewer stars than Brazil had but they played better collectively.
Mohammad H. Al-Hamdani
England did not impress me and Rooney was stupid enough to step on a Portuguese player and deserved to be sent off. Ironically, Rooney was extremely mad at his fellow Manchester United winger, Christiano Ronaldo for defending the injured Portuguese player. Rooney totally forgot that Ronaldo was playing for the national Portuguese team in the world cup not in a premier league game.
France started slow but they really caught up later and played great soccer they, however, lacked the destroying offense ability. Playing with a single forward is not a very good idea particularly if the striker got skills and always moves around instead of positioning smartly in the 18 yard box to snipe chances.
Argentina did a great job as a whole team but their coach was not that good. How can a coach not invite Javier Zaniti and Walter Samuel to his roster? They are two of the best players in Europe and they got plenty of experience. Players like Lional Messi and Carlos Teves, who got crucial skills and insights, were sitting on the bench all the time and when they had the chance they showed everybody what they can do and actually did to Serbia and Montenegro. Jose Beckerman is widely famous for winning world cups but for the under 21 teams not the first teams. I really wanted to see the Tango dancers make it to the finale but next
Brazil no doubt was the worst; Ronaldinho sucked big time but that could be due to the long season he had with Barcelona. The only bright star in the samba roster was Kaka who is really one of the best midfielders in the world. Choppy Ronaldo did manage to be the top scorer of all world cups but it was in a very flat and unimpressive way.
Italy played ok but they won it with there steel-like defense and this proves that the calcio is the best soccer league; the 23 Italian players are all playing in the calcio. Top players like Cassano were not invited to the Italian roster for the mere fact of playing outside Italy, even if they were playing for big teams like Real Madrid as in Cassano’s case. What distinguished Italy is their team work. They had fewer stars than Brazil had but they played better collectively.
Mohammad H. Al-Hamdani
Ac Milan made sure history does not repeat itself as it is commonly said!!!
I was really nervous about this finale, for i love Italian soccer more than the English one though i love Stephen Gerrard. Two goals for the famous sniper Insaghi were more than enough to avange the 2005 finale loss. I think one of the main factors is what coach Carl Ancelotti talked about, the physical condition of Ac Milan players'. They were rested more than the 2005 finale plus they were more than happy to make it to the finale in such harsh circumstances especially with the scandle of the 05/06 season. Anyways, I believe the better team won very deservingly. Finally, I say congrats to the roseneri and better luck to Liverpool.
Mohammad H. Al-Hamdani
Mohammad H. Al-Hamdani
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