The Eternal Ember
...The Eternal Ember
Decades are passed, an embrew slices Earth's chest
And countless Energy invests
It blooms
Bamboozles doom:
Decades past
In search of and at last
Pause and steadfast like ...
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Categories:
adnan, appreciation, blessing, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Firefly
...Firefly
We were sleeping on balmy nights
Blinds were awakening in sticky October
People were waiting and whispering during the flight
Mob was ecstatic and somber.
Sylph, a beautiful nymph em...
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Categories:
adnan, beauty, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Telemachus
...Telemachus
Ask Telemachus!
Penelope is aware of your grief and glow,
Go on, don't feel low
You are her beach
Fly high and across every breach.
Ask him:
She lived with you in Ithaca
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Categories:
adnan, dedication, imagination, light, literature,
Form: Free verse
Innocence
...Innocence
Once,
Met with an image
Masked in modernity
Walked in purity
Smiled in serenity.
I stopped and reckoned,
There was a river
Flow like giver
Soul and body
Amalgamation of Chastity...
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Categories:
adnan, dedication, imagery, music,
Form: Free verse
Ode To My Humble Toaster
...Oh, my beloved toaster,
How you start my day with delight.
Your warm embrace, a comforting boast,
A breakfast staple in every right.
With your sleek design and metallic sheen,
You toast my bre...
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Categories:
adnan, history, hope, loss, love,
Form: Ode
Wings Her Own
...She Walked IN
Her steps trembling.. moves all tender
To walk In or Out..
Her purity….her lost splendour..
A jewel …
A pearl untouched ..
Of Joys unexplored…
Of intimacies all crutched …
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Categories:
adnan, addiction,
Form: ABC
Ousted By None But the Night
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Ousted by None but the Night
Arabic Poem by: Adnan Abu Andalus*
Translated by:
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_n_silk)
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The dusty street is bare
Darkness there and the ...
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Categories:
adnan, arabic, dark, night, sad,
Form: Prose Poetry
Erkallios
...Erkallios
Arabic Poem by: Adnan Abu Andalus*
Translated into English by:
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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No feather on his head
To escape hell
Erkallios
Was not a le...
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Categories:
adnan, arabic, death, deep, loss,
Form: Narrative
Prologue To a Next Life
...He would never forget the raindrops knocking on his coffin,
painfully screaming in a postpartum (from life) depression,
nor would he forget the stiffness of his entire body
banging on the wood a...
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Categories:
adnan, life, loss
Form: Narrative