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Surrounded by students with faraway looks<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t fear the unknown\u201d the teacher said<\/span><\/p>\n It is a place of discovery<\/span><\/p>\n With comfort, you get complacent<\/span><\/p>\n With encounter, you approach celestial spheres<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Abstract makes you think<\/span><\/p>\n Mystery makes you dream<\/span><\/p>\n Like colors added to a grey winter sky<\/span><\/p>\n They create spring in the middle of a desert<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hundred years later, the pupils become gurus<\/span><\/p>\n Teaching their grandparents what heaven\u2019s like<\/span><\/p>\n Years of searching\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A minute of enlightenment<\/span><\/p>\n A cycle of life, a rhythm never-ending<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Encounter Ramzi Albert Rihani Surrounded by students with faraway looks \u201cDon\u2019t fear the unknown\u201d the teacher said It is a place of discovery With comfort, you get complacent With Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6645,"featured_media":0,"parent":1261,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4344,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3754\/revisions\/4344"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2023\/11\/RR-in-Austin-May-2021-2-150x150.jpg\")
Born to a literary family of poets, writers, novelists, and critics, Ramzi Albert Rihani<\/strong> is a Lebanese-American writer who has been writing and publishing poetry for several years. His work has appeared in several publications in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Romania, South Africa, China and India, including Chronogram magazine, Cacti Fur Journal, Ariel Chart International Literary Journal, Poetry Potion, The Piker Press, Active Muse, Ephemeral Elegies, Impspired, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, W-Poesis Literary Journal, Valiant Scribe Literary Journal, Flora Fiction Quarterly, The Literary Yard, <\/em>and The Silent Journey Anthology.<\/em> He is a published music critic. He wrote and published a travel book, The Other Color – a Trip Around the World in Six Months<\/em> (FMA Press), and three plays, two of which were produced on stage. Ramzi has lived in the Washington, DC, area most of his life.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"