<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[My Site]]></title><description><![CDATA[My Site 1]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:45 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.gaascollective.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA["Anything to live for" by Yasmiin ]]></title><description><![CDATA[I don’t know how to live. I don’t know what it means to live. And I don’t understand how people find the will to live. But I say this as...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/untitled-by-yasmiin</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6840b02991910dbe9d016662</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:28:56 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["seasame sesame/sin sin" by Habibo]]></title><description><![CDATA[seasame seasame how I like to be the same the same as thee the same as me the same as you the same as we "I wrote about my spelling...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/seasame-sesame-sin-sin-by-habibo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6840aa0ada05b0dd5518b4f8</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 20:24:47 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["Control" by Alisha T.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am the breath that will not come.  A mouth sealed shut with invisible thread,  lungs full of fire and nothing else.  I choke on...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/control-by-alisha-t</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6840a6bcc81ffc3560eaf1c6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 20:12:12 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["The Struggle with Guilt as the Daughter of Immigrants" Essay by Hodan Sultan]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father always compliments my ability to dream big. We sit across from each other once a week for lunch—we sit across from each other,...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/the-struggle-with-guilt-as-the-daughter-of-immigrants-essay-by-hodan-sultan</link><guid isPermaLink="false">683dfcd835b10f92161b5906</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 19:55:11 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>essayist</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["Tuesday Morning" by Isha Hussein]]></title><description><![CDATA[Have you ever felt so lost in your sadness that it wraps around you like chains, suffocating every breath, until you forget what it feels...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/tuesday-morning-by-isha-hussein</link><guid isPermaLink="false">683a64fe27a23212f1e4b50e</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 02:13:34 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["To The Boxer" by Najib Abbi]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dear Boxer, I don’t know the last time we talked, I just pray you’re standing tall, After all the things you’ve lost, After everything...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/to-the-boxer-by-najib-abbi</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6838e4a2d569a830f8ac03cb</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 22:52:09 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["White Civility" by Taliso, inspired by the victims of the global west.]]></title><description><![CDATA["I face great injustice-" my words ring hollow, lost in the echoes of polite "sorrys" and "thank yous", drowned beneath the chatter of...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/white-civility-by-taliso-inspired-by-the-victims-of-the-global-west</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68333e9b2c9701be822c8e7e</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2025 16:02:51 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["The World Halts When We Laugh" by Taliso, inspired by black resilience.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The world halts when we laugh Footsteps slow and fall silent, Seeking support in the nearest stand, Bracing ourselves for the impact,...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/the-world-halts-when-we-laugh-by-taliso-inspired-by-black-resilience</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68333dd4d575207f49174841</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2025 15:59:23 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["Firefly" by Hassen Ismail Beynah]]></title><description><![CDATA[The unreachable light The one at the end of the dark cave A dark that torments A dark with no light for too long A dark fearing the death...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/firefly-by-hassen-ismail-beynah</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68333c5531c7b50b3b06cb6a</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2025 15:51:57 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["5 Minutes" by Najib Abbi]]></title><description><![CDATA[It’s barely been five minutes, Yet nothing looks the same, The sun and moon traded places, And the world we’re in has changed, I count...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/5-minutes-by-najib-abbi</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68333b9131c7b50b3b06c96c</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2025 15:49:20 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["Flood (011724)" by Hassen Ismail Beynah]]></title><description><![CDATA[The continuous thoughts about you flood my mind as each day and time passes The never-ending self-questioning to withhold the feeling...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/flood-011724-by-hassen-ismail-beynah</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68333863d575207f491739e0</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2025 15:35:18 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["Freedom?" by Isha Hussein]]></title><description><![CDATA[What is freedom but an elusive concept, a word we bravely utter while struggling to digest its bittersweet flavor? It feels like...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/freedom-by-isha-hussein</link><guid isPermaLink="false">683337a22c9701be822c7c23</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2025 15:32:49 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Untitled by Hassen Ismail Beynah]]></title><description><![CDATA[can a caged bird with hope of freedom love one with none maybe one hope is enough for both, like a prophecy foretold of their mutual love...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/untitled-by-hassen-ismail-beynah</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6833360d31c7b50b3b06b917</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2025 15:26:01 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["I am Poem (2022)" by Hassen Ismail Beynah]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am from Somali Uni, From Anjero (Somali Pancake) and Shaax (Somali tea) I am from the Quran Book and Tusbax (Prayer Beads) I am from...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/i-am-poem-2022-by-hassen-ismail-beynah</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68278bcb2b0463bceaa8e717</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 19:08:50 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[“i who will not recognize i” by A]]></title><description><![CDATA[sometimes, provoked by a passerby, or a song, or a piece of writing  i simultaneously create and mourn over a version of myself that never has and perhaps never will exist  somehow through every experience both lived and unlived  i have been sculpted into this form that i know as myself  and although through those same means  i will continue to be molded into a new shape into someone that shares my name and face  and whose eyes i will see through  but whose mind this version of me will not...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/i-who-will-not-recognize-i-by-a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6823c2e1345cfad741483d71</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 22:09:01 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["Dear," by Suze]]></title><description><![CDATA[i would never write to you—      you would never read it. A piece of me, collecting dust  on your sticky sinless hands. One more day...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/dear-by-suze</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6823c1f3586626533b27ab51</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 22:06:38 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["her shoulders" by Ilaali]]></title><description><![CDATA[The weight of the world resting on her, shoulders. engraved in her soul, almost visible to the naked eye. she continues on - the weight...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/her-shoulders-ilaali</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6823b469586626533b278519</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 21:10:32 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["new life new growth" by Ilaali]]></title><description><![CDATA[you thought like a garden, that i would be dead when you returned, but here i am full of weeds, run wild]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/new-life-new-growth-by-ilaali</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6823b3c1492ff4fd56d37385</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 21:05:10 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[“A prayer between strangers” by Khawthar Eltom]]></title><description><![CDATA[look up— don’t be afraid. i’ll respond. i promise. i know what it’s like to hesitate. to wonder if your voice will echo back empty. to...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/a-prayer-between-strangers-by-khawthar-eltom</link><guid isPermaLink="false">681e74ed4d6b292c385bebe6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 21:42:55 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["purple" by Aaliyah]]></title><description><![CDATA[i would tell you she was so stunning i could not look at her. i would hear from her from time to time how much i looked like her but...]]></description><link>https://www.gaascollective.org/post/purple-by-aaliyah</link><guid isPermaLink="false">681bae546c11e6ddb8515ecf</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 19:05:09 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>poet</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>