GAARRIYE

Wallee Qaaf ujeedo leh, Qiimahayga kuma rido, Magac waa qasaaladde, Wallee Qaddo ma dhaafsado, Ninkii Beesha Qaayima, Qarr haduu ku soo dumo, Wallee Ciidda kama Guro.

Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac 'Gaarriye' was born in Hargeysa in 1949, and lives there now. He attended school in Sheikh in Somaliland and then graduated in biology at the Somali National University, following which he was a teacher for several years. As a keen poet and literary scholar also, he later worked at the Academy of Culture in Mogadishu and then as a lecturer in Somali literature at National University. From the 1970s onwards he has been one of the most important Somali poets, composing on a great variety of topics from nuclear weapons to Nelson Mandela. He was also a poet who was not afraid to engage in the politics of Somalia through his poetry, and he was the initiator of one of the largest 'chain poems', 'Deelley', to which many poets contributed, each one alliterating in 'd', hence the name of the chain. In addition to his poetry composition, Gaarriye was the person who first articulated the metrical patterns of Somali poetry, which he published in 1976 in a number of articles in the national newspaper of the time. This work was invaluable and a major intellectual achievement.

By: Martin Orwin

Najayna Najayna, Macaan Nabadbaa leh, Naruuro Samaa leh, Nas baa igu taab leh, Nimcooy Waxa Maanta, Mindhaa Negidiisa, Natiijo ku Raadsha, Dagaalna Niyaysta, Nin Moog Wixii Gaadhay - Dhurwaagii Nabnaaye, Intuu nacasoobay, Bushinmaha Nirig Goostay, Dabadeed Yidhi Naa Jaq - Halluu Jaray naaska.

Cadli baa wax doojee Wax kaloo ragg deeqoo, Dadka lagaga eed baxo Nin u doonay heli waa

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