Tag Archives: #ImprisonedUnjustly

Criminal Insult

Posted on 07/14/2022 by Shukri Abu Baker

Criminal Insult I caught the news right at the end. I watched and listened to a humbled voice breaking with agony: “… All hit, some right in the heart,  others straight in the head. They lay face-down on top of … Continue reading →

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Tell Me Baby

Posted on 05/21/2022 by Shukri Abu Baker

   (Remembering my daughter Sanabel) This is how we do it, Dad: We ride the storm. We stand the pain. We wring the rocks for beads of rain. We pray. We fight. We cry. We laugh. Just another bump in the … Continue reading →

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And Still Hope Grows

Posted on 11/21/2021 by Shukri Abu Baker

, let me thank all the amazing souls out there that have lent me and my family a helping hand and a shoulder to lean on. Continue reading →

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The Cinnamon in Our Lives

Posted on 08/30/2021 by Shukri Abu Baker

 Morning started fresh and difficult. The hours drove  bumper-to-bumper. So, a trip home is now snail mail.  I know, the slower the speed, the longer the distance.  Or so it feels. Well, maybe I’m being too sentimental  about all that … Continue reading →

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Eid ul Adha 2021

Posted on 07/17/2021 by Shukri Abu Baker

This Eid is all about sacrifice Continue reading →

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Against The Currents

Posted on 07/09/2021 by Shukri Abu Baker

 Face-to-fist the one-man boat met  the keep-coming waves; sheets of rage  and sea is deep becoming; drowning.    But not every soul lost at sea  is a soul lost in landlessness.  No sum of luck must be lumped  to survive … Continue reading →

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Without You

Posted on 10/14/2019 by Shukri Abu Baker

Without You We find each other before we say goodbye. Days of our lives become memories, Fleeting like footprints of wet sands.                                     … Continue reading →

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Eid Message of Gratitude 2019

Posted on 06/04/2019 by Shukri Abu Baker

Ramadan, no sooner than it had excited our appetite for a taste of Heaven than it said goodbye. In that precious month we fasted, prayed, supplicated, read the Quran, and gave charity. Our faith simply felt revived. Now that Eid … Continue reading →

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The Way Out

Posted on 02/26/2019 by Shukri Abu Baker

The Way Out This is not one of my best days. I feel terrible. Another prisoner… another suicide. I knew him well. He lived in my unit for the longest time before he recently moved to another building where he … Continue reading →

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On Turning 60

Posted on 02/11/2019 by Shukri Abu Baker

  For the past decade in confinement I have experienced a barrage of feelings from extreme fear to acute disappointment, but I managed to adjust and move forward. This is not to say that I have even started to feel … Continue reading →

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