Adli Yacubi

Wordsmith of Remembrance

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Adli Yacubi is a wordsmith of remembrance — blending story, design, and sacred memory. Rooted in Cape Town’s rich heritage and decades of media experience, his work spans poetry, layout, radio, and research. He authored Punching Above Its Weight: The Story of the Call of Islam, and now curates scrolls of mercy, resistance, and everyday barakah. Through the voices of Rabbānī and Rafiq al-Bunduqia, he tells stories where light remembers.

Category: Poetry

  • The Fragrance Lingers: Remembering Hatta and the Cape’s Everyday Saints

    The Fragrance Lingers: Remembering Hatta and the Cape’s Everyday Saints

    A tribute to Cecelia ‘Hatta’ Williams—beloved flower seller of Trafalgar Place. A poetic, visual, and communal reflection on Cape Town’s everyday saints. By Adli Yacubi.

  • Unseen Table

    Unseen Table

    Adli Yacubi’s poem “Unseen Table” serves as a devotional meditation on the Divine, blending rhythmic verses reminiscent of Qur’anic language with Arabic calligraphy. It reflects on the attributes of God, providing a resonant space for spiritual connection amidst the chaos of the world, encouraging readers to embrace a quiet invocation of prayer.

  • A Brother Like No Other

    A Brother Like No Other

    This is not just a farewell. It’s a remembrance of my brother Faried—his strength, his softness, his stubborn love. From bricklaying boots to quiet sacrifice, his legacy lives on in us.

  • Two Rivers

    Two Rivers

    Two rivers descend from their mountain source Over the edge, barefoot towards their destinies

  • That Feeling When You Fly

    That Feeling When You Fly

    The opening and the closing The earth beneath the sky The poetry and the rhyming That feeling when you fly

  • Drawn

    Drawn

    I’m drawn to you Like a salmon Running upstream