Ola Hadi
calligraphy of living
by ola hadi/10.5.11 I did not know the man I did not know he had the same dreams I have reading about Steve I wish I had I can relate not just because of his love for the creative but because he was real was adopted shaved his head and meditated spent time at an… Read More
Ola Hadi
Pilgrimage
by ola hadi/ 10.4.11 if time was an infinite resource I would spend lifetimes with you as it is this precious gift sets limits boundaries that I doubt I’d draw alone through you the pilgrimage begins I’d hoped we’d share the journey through life in union explore the paths ahead get lost and find something… Read More
Ola Hadi
Lotus Life
in unexpected moments the swamp surrounds us green, brown, overgrown endless mud you know the stuff and us, the lotus, above the waters the disgusting, putrid stench but how? how with these senses nostrils full of vomit we weep with the swamp we wish we did not see this reality like a broken mirror full… Read More
Ola Hadi
note to Adam
I halt stand staring at the tree outside of my apartment say sincerely I wish this was an orange tree you know, I could come out into this front yard pick the fruit like when I was young and we with our small grasping hands picked the lemons and the oranges off the branches of… Read More
Ola Hadi
airport poetry
Often they congregate close enough to cough Yuck germy humans Heavy cell phone conversations Islands of egoism All walks of life Acting like It’s totally normal To follow the rules To be all ears on your attention please Final boarding call Recorded, not a human voice They wait in line Watch monitors Buy starbucks Are… Read More
Ola Hadi
Conflicted
darling, I am conflicted. part of me is enjoying the building anticipation of kissing your full delicious lips in just four days there is the almost pleasurable agony in the length and space between us that makes the waiting that much more intense that sets my whole being into this burst of excitement that I… Read More
Ola Hadi
Mud
there is the absurd question of semantics left to wrestle with limbs so lifeless heavy tree branches gnarly natural monsters difficult wrestling left absurd to wrestle with the question of what is left there nude or naked in the muddied interpretations of ideologies, communist/democratic/polka dotted/ never powerful enough to make a difference bruised/battered/left to lose… Read More
Ola Hadi
Colorful Days
So I’m getting pretty used to not having a life…what with working a full time job M-F (and many Saturday school Saturdays) and taking three classes…I have time to hang Wednesday night (which I have designated my swim night and therefore sacred) and Friday night (open to whereever the most magnetic forces pull). Saturdays are… Read More
Ola Hadi
Gerunding Happiness
MY FAVORITE PARTS ABOUT BEING ALIVE TODAY signing up for a pool membership that scans my hand and makes me feel like I’m on The Jetsons fantasizing about long swims that start with a shock of cold water and slowly warm up to become meditative questioning whether empathy is more continuity or change, some internal… Read More
Ola Hadi
Stalker
A song is stalking me. About a week ago I was all kleenex and madness…and I asked my roommate Jason to play a song, any song… I was just so desperate for a distraction, something to get my mind off of things…and of all the possible permutations in the endless playlists one could rummage through,… Read More