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This is a list of Somali poets. Somali society is synonymous with poetry and also has a longstanding oratory tradition. [1] Of internationally available published verse, Arabic poetry has the oldest and most diverse corpus. With Greater Somalia's proximity to the Middle East, similar attachments to poetry exist in Somali culture and traditions ...
Somali poetry features obligatory alliteration, similar in some respects to the requirements of Germanic alliterative verse. [4] There is a crucial distinction between the different forms of Somali poetry. The forms differ by number of syllables in each verse of poem. [5]
It is thus worthwhile briefly to compare Germanic alliterative verse with other alliterative verse traditions, such as Somali and Mongol poetry. Like German alliterative verse, Somali alliterative verse is built around short lines (phrasal units, roughly equal in size to the Germanic half-line) whose strongest stress must alliterate with the ...
Category: Poems by writer nationality. ... German poems (11 C, 66 P) Greek poems (3 C, ... Somali poems (2 P) Spanish poems (1 C, 7 P)
Sheekh Ahmed Gabyow was a famous Somali poet and warrior mullah from the Abgaal Hawiye clan. Gabyow lived in the coastal areas north of Mogadishu in the first few decades of the Italian occupation. He was well known for the masafo reciting and producing several dozen as a genre of Somali poetry that is usually composed by religious men. [1] [2]
He first composed poems in his 20s and 30s. Aadan Gureey's most famous poem "Seventy and Ten" was printed on the first book, containing collections of the earliest poems in the Somali literature collections. The poet died the same year as Mohammed Abdullah Hassan died, in 1920. The two poets didn't know about each other, but they both composed ...
Farah Hussein Sharmarke composed his last poems in 1952 while in Kenya. Voice recorded poems are available for his last half dozen poems just before his death in the early 1950s. First numbered lines from 1-3 are in Af Somali while lines underneath from 1 to 3 are their English translations. 1- Shimbir duulis badanoow haddaad, degi aqoon weydo
Ali Dhuh's most famous contribution to Somali poetry is the Guba poems, a series of poems he initiated after the Habar Yoonis conquest of the Ogaden, in which they uprooted the native Ogadens and took in to possession huge swathes of land and thousands of camels. Historian Siegbert Uhlig commenting on the Guba poem writes the following-[note 1]