Best Abu Poems

Arrested for thoughts
Of carnal delights
Tortured in the heat of a desert night
Poisoned, a corpse of poetic disdain
They do not care for the verses I write

Demons walking on holy water
I turned that water to blood red wine
They drowned
Drinking it in, I laughed then frowned

In chains, locked...

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Abu Nuwas


He proclaimed to the caliphate
In the dark hours of the evening
Rejoice! These splendid virgins are a bleeding
Drink our youth, and let not harm come our way

Peace is the brotherhood
Wine and love shall hold sway
Let us rejoice at the gardens and fresh bled flowers
The vineyards...

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His words add splendor to all that’s trite
Just like a tender breeze would do to a
Hot, summer night
Just like mountains are embellished
By golden sunlight
And just like an afternoon sky is colored
By a rainbow or a kite

Ammo: (Arabic) Paternal uncle or great-uncle, or ,more generally, a...

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Ramesses rules with an iron hand
a god beneath a blistering sky
Hittite chaff fell, he took their land
beneath his chariots wheels they die.
Hundreds were herded slaves all
to serve at the pleasure of the King
man or beast he claimed by might
and for his pleasure they did brawl,
chained,...

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A fallen villain;
Slayer of the innocent and lover of pain;
A gifted mystic who prostituted the endowments of Nature,
And thus drunk her  cup of fury with mysterious pleasure.

Sharks found a rare meal of flesh and blood
That they would not have had,
Thanks to the seasond American...

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We traveled, 
Without a single word. 
Left abroad, as all things that pass. 
We were the only thing that furnished the space around us. 

Without a single word. 
We partook in sights that denounced us as things. 
We soared as the clouds that journey through...

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The future made a face at at me
I made a face back at the future

If fate did smile my way
I wyly smiled back at her

Don't mention Karma to me..
They use deragatory terms
In reference to her... ways

Am born of Destiny..
Unto me a path Ordained

Speading wings like...

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I ask for refuge to Allah from Satan the exiled evildoer.
In the name of Allah the Kind and the Merciful Giver.

Both hands of Abu Lahab to be perished and so shall he
His wealth and earnings will not be able to benefit him, you see ...

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As an Arab guest 
magnetizes all eyes, 
local VIPs get RIP 
status. Abu sticks
his love on Arab’s
forehead. Sweet 
vibes waft up with
the spicy smell of 
the feast. Abu plans	
another plaza above  
the dunes in Dubai. He
makes his daughter’s 	
wedding unique with
the imported charm. 


Currency...

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These words are ghostly voices 
Heard from the ruined of hunted houses 
Unheard by those innocent ears,
tormented by accomplices who sit in fear 

These words are writers’ thoughts 
Fertilized when their ink meet their papers
Bringing forth testimonies of those unheard 

These words are stars at...

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Year of the 50th for UAE Golden Jubilee 
Peace, Security, Prosperity & Beauty
BY: Majed Dodeen
O UAE! How can I describe your beauty & its lights?
UAE is the home of peace, originality& civilization.   
UAE is unmatched in goodness, kindness & righteousness.  
UAE has...

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There once was a Tree,
Happy as can be.

Even though this tree had no teeth,
It would still play with its friend Keath.

One unfaithful day,
Keath never came to play.

Tree worried all through the night,
Perhaps he'd finally given Keath a fright!

For how could it be,
That Keath love a...

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I traced along the battered spine,
But it was not in me
To brace along those tattered lines.

Much I tried to bare the bines,
As straight as I could be,
Caught laced, always, in those tangled vines.

Until – disarrayed – I broke, and heard the chimes.
I have learned to...

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The lights that flare
Stain my stare.

How deep or true I care,
Pales to your new flare.

I have proven shallow,
Until I can be there....

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Until the last light, I believe I shall remain,
A tune unplayed, in this dreary song.

During daylight and throughout the night,
A moment does not part from melancholy and I.

Should I leave or should I try,
I know what follows could not be felt as life.

Is there another...

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