Mohammed Moussa

meaning find its way to what I wanted to say when silence was always

the main theme in what I was living as a cousin and what I was experiencing.

And yeah, it offered a shelter to that grief to shape, to form itself in a way that the world would understand what that grief is and talk to the people across the world without borders.

yes yeah when i mention again the journey of a poem you wrote alone as a poet you know away from the world and the poem finds its way to everybody across the globe and they share that grief they share that feeling with you so it gives

the poet a sense of relief and it is an interesting journey of the poem finding of how the poem finds its way to the hearts of the readers because

There were so many times, as I mentioned again, where you didn't know exactly what you wanted to say or to whom to speak, but you would see a video of someone reading you a poem to his community, to his family, and gives you a feeling of... It is heartwarming because it gives the poet a feeling that

you're not alone.

Everybody feels what he feels and everybody shares that grief with you and this takes from the weight of that grief, you know, when you watch the world sharing your words that you wrote alone and yeah.

Gaza's Creative Allies is an international collective by the Gaza Poet Society to highlight the creative contributions of the creatives from all over the world who create in solidarity with Gaza.

artists, poets, journalists, no matter what the creativity or the art they practice.

It started recently in the last year.

We were able to feature creatives from all over the world and also publish Gazaverse, which is a journal by Gaza's creative allies, Art Beyond Borders.

poets, artists, creatives from all over the world to submit art and we created that journal from artists and poets from all over the world so it was a way to say thank you to every creative

and it is a platform to highlight every creative work created in solidarity with Gaza and also connect with the poets and the artists and build events with them and highlight their work and build also connections.

You can find ours on the website of Gaza Post Society, on Instagram, Gaza's Creative Allies.

Please, if you create

any art, if you write poetry, submit your poetry to Gazaverse, to Gaza's creative allies, we would be honoured to highlight your work, your art, your poetry.

It is very important to highlight how poetry in times of genocide changes and how it is a genre in its own because language itself changes when it is genocide and poetry itself changes when it is genocide.

There were times

where writing poetry felt like a crime.