Best Bab Poems
It was a party for the ages
Everyone and their friends were there
When half way through the festivities
A loud explosion burst in the air!
Cy Cosis yelled, "They are after me!"
Debbie Downer said, "That was not fun!"
Bab Ling Brook ran down the hillside
Petey Essdee said, "I'm getting my gun"
Del E. Gate said, "Annie, check it out!"
Annie Rexiya said, "I"m too fat"
Perry Noid said, "We should just hide!"
Sue Purglu said, "I'd stick with that!"
Carrie Oakey sang slightly off key,
"I'll be joining you in heaven mom!"
While Sam R. Eye pulled out his sword!
A kid said, "My firecracker was the bomb!"
Rolling eyes and frowns all around
Embarrassment at colors laid bare
The kid looked around and said, "What?"
And they all just went home in despair!
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When tired from sweeping with the storebought broom
I'd lean against not wanting to resume
Momma said, "Nusing your bab?"
I would sweep, under breath crab
Now would love to hear her say, "Clean your room!"
(Momma would say nusing not nursing..Bab is instead of baby..)
Leanne was a farm girl at heart
She loved playing with her special cow
She used to eat her mums freshly made tart
Leanne didn't like her brothers sow
Oliver used to make the oil
Dan made the juice
Oliver used to oil up Leanne and the cows
Dan bit off her ear!
Leanne danced with the poodle
Leanne danced with the cock(erel)
Leanne's legs where like noodles
Leanne's ear went like a rock
I miss 'Bao to my bab' but Trish won't allow it
I'm scarred James will leave me
But Linda is by my side
I love Poetry soups!!!!!
----Dedicated to Linda (Poetry Destroyer A), and JB, you know who you're ;-) ---
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They loved numbers and records
back in the days
1939 and on the stats began to climb
now they changed the colors of their shirts
from brown to blue
the storyline though, the same
horrors a new
How "Israel" was made
1. The Haifa Massacre 1937
2. The Jerusalem Massacre 1937
3. The Balad al-Sheikh Massacre 1939
4. The Haifa Massacre 1939
5. The Haifa Massacre 1947
6. The Abbasiya Massacre 1947
7. The Al-Khisas Massacre 1947
8. The Bab al-Amud Massacre 1947
9. The Jerusalem Massacre 1947
10. The Sheikh Burek Massacre 1947
11. The Al-Sheik Break Massacre 1947
12. The Jaffa Massacre 1948
13. The Al-Saraya Al-Arabeya Massacre 1948
14. The Semiramis Massacre 1948
15. The Ramla Massacre 1948
16. The Yazur Massacre 1948
17. The Tabra Tulkarem Massacre 1948
18. The Jerusalem Massacre 1948
19. The Deir Yassin Massacre 1948
20. The Abu Shusha Massacre 1948
21. The Tantura Massacre 1948
22. The Lydda Massacre 1948
23. The Saliha Massacre 1948
24. The Al-Dawayima Massacre 1948
25. The Al-Husayniyya Massacre 1948
26. The Abu Kabir Massacre 1948
27. The Cairo Train Massacare, Haifa 1948
28. The Qalunya Massacre 1948
29. The Nasir Al-Din Massacre 1948
30. The Tiberias Massacre 1948
31. The Haifa Massacre 1948
32. The Ayn Al-Zaytoun Massacre 1948
33. The Safed Massacre 1948
34. The Beit Daras Massacre 1948
35. The Qibya Massacre 1953
36. The Khan Yunis Massacre 1956
37. The Jerusalem Massacre 1967
38. The Bahro Al Baquar Massacre 1972
39. The Sabra and Shatila Massacre 1982
40. The Al Aqsa Mosque Massacre 1990
41. The lbrahimi Mosque Massacre 1994
42. The Jenin Refugee Camp Massacre 2002
43. The Gaza Massacre 2008
44. The Gaza Massacre 2009
45. The Gaza Massacre 2012
46. The Gaza Massacre 2014
47. The Gaza Border Massacre 2018
48. The Gaza Border Massacre 2019
49. The Gaza Wehda Street Massacre 2021
50. The Gaza Massacre 2022
51. The Jenin Refugee Camp Massacre 2023
52. The Gaza Genocide 2023
53. The Gaza Genocide 2024
It had been snowing all night- it was bad,
you were going to work but I said stay;
you called me silly and I was so mad.
One last tear for love.
You left with a slam of the door that day,
I went back to my bed but I was sad;
then heard a crash in my dream of cold gray.
You had always wanted to be a dad,
but now my love was going far away;
for somehow my heart knew that it was bad,
One last tear for love.
I floated to the crash to see your face,
a gauzy dream girl with hair like a fan;
weeping darling for a final embrace.
One last tear for love.
Your death had never been in our plan,
this love- time will never ever erase;
the police came and then my grief began.
This dream girl came to your deathly cold place,
I kissed your dead blue lips and held your hand;
but of love and husband there was no trace.
One last tear for love.
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February 3, 2019
Poetry/Roundel x 2/One Last Tear For Love
Copyright Protected, ID 19-1111-723-02
All Rights Reserved. Written under Pseudonym.
abax bab abax
Written for the contest, One Last Tear
sponsor, Silent One
Second Place
Angels come in many
Forms
Perhaps within the lightning
Within a storm
Perhaps within the pebble
Of a thorn
Perhaps within the
Heart of a new born Bab
Perhaps within the sunlight
Of a day
Perhaps within the church bells
Ringing loud..
Perhaps within
A cloud passing through
Perhaps within the laughter's
Of joy deep inside you..
Perhaps within the peace
Of sleep..
Angels come in many forms
Perhaps it's the tear upon your cheek
Perhaps upon your tongue
Of your whispering prayers
Breath in the sweet scent
Of the angels air
For they come in many forms
I was asleep
And in my dreams were visions
Visions of beauty grandeur
For there were
Angels
Interacting moving so invasively
Such wonders
A delight beautiful as prisms and lights and they were. . .
They was wonderful
They was wonderful
They were wonderful to behold
My God I sure enjoyed
They were marvelous to my eyes;
I can hardly wait to fly
And be forever with the Lord and God in eternity
God is marvelous to my eyes
Jesus is wonderful to behold
They was wonderful
They was wonderful
They are, the angels are . . .
They are wonderful
Abba Father, wonderful
Wonderful
Praise God
Amen
Swahili verses
Nilikuwa wamelala. Na katika
ndoto zangu walikuwa maono
Maono ya ufahari ya uzuri
Kwani kulikuwa na malaika
Kuingiliana kusongo maajabu
hivyo invasively vile
Furaha nzuri kama prisms na taa na walikuwa
llikuwa ajabu
llikuwa ajabu
Walikuwa ajabu tazama
Mungu wangu mimi hakika
walifurahia
Walikuwa ajabu kwa macho
yangu
Mimi ni vigumu kusubiri kuruka
Na kuwa milele na Bwana na
Mungu milele
Mungu ni ajabu kaw macho
yangu
Yesu ni ajabu tazama
llikuwa ajabu
llikuwa ajabu
Wao ni, malaika ni
Ni ajabu
Aba Bab, ajabu
AjabuSifa Mungu
Amina
They was wonderful
Them Angels was wonderful
They was wonderful
They are, the angels are . . .
They are wonderful
Abba Father, wonderful
Wonderful
Praise God
Amen
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.
August 1 2017(c)
from forth coming anthology "Swahili Praise"
field of windmills
thick, wool and warm
fireside...
Sunday
flowers......
silly friends
autumn to winter
sad smiles...
hummus with pita
bab ganoush
pumpkin soup
7am.
green memories
that change regularly
Murphy's law
side by side
in a cave with Nick
you wouldn't understand
how tired I feel
you can not translate the pain
Behind his stone walls
his heart cry's hiding fear
behind his eye's.
lonely whisper echo's across
the heavens are
father is listening dear child
your faith is weak
for your body has fallen deep
with a sickness of
are blessed father's test
is upon you rest your worried
mind let your faith grow
like that of a new born Bab
for are blessed father is with you
each and everyday
not a day goes by
that he doesn't wipe your
teary eyes let faith
walk strong within your soul
Neal down on your knees
and pray until your
heart fills with peace
for it is at that very moment
are sweet blessed father
has moved the gray
RED SEA RECALLED
Perim squints in sun without relief
Through its narrow windows
Towards the mirage
Of Socotra’s pearled reef
Red and shallow sea floor
With coral islets shimmering
And rainbows of fish
Near its dusty rock shores
Crossed by the Tropic*
Crossed by dhows
Crossed by Moses
Crossroads geographic and historic
Its waters stream warm
Through the gate of tears *
A tideless desert sea
Caught in a sand storm
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NOTES
Tropic of Cancer crosses the Red Sea’s mid-section.
Bab el Mandeb means Gate of Tears.
Perim and Socotra are islands in the region.
Biobab ever sits unable to stand but a tree.A broad trunked,huge like rocks,from silk-cotton family fruiting for paper,cloth and rope suiting.
Bab is gate in Arabic and the tree is an African origin.A gateway between Asia and Middle East kept opened for centuries.Ancient,heavy,immemorial gift from Arab traders for shadowing the Sun hitting Mannar soil in then Ceylon.A mark of gesture of Arabs on their merchandised soil but no a trade mark as traders hail.
Hats off dear Arabs for your kind hearts.Biobab a tropical being sits smart for half of Adam’s age in the coastal belt of Northern province of Sri Lanka!
Listen Catzilla
Yeah bab you can jive
Hit it and stomp it out all night
you’ve got legs for moving and hips
for proving.
Come on over here don’t stop doing what you’re doin.
Feel the piano keys,
Smash smash smash
That look comes with a follow threw
To you, jump on the floor
Let me show you a little more
Of what I can do.
“The wind is the pounding of my heart.”
Rush of my pulse ‘neath Autumn trees.
The brisk, cool wind - twist, coil and twine.
Refreshing eucalyptus-breeze -
Rush of my pulse.
Suddenly surrounded - all mine.
Dalliance incites me to freeze.
This uptick of heart is divine.
Deep breath, breathless, the swoon of knees.
Inspirited cheeks, cerise-wine.
This heartbeat of maples decrees -
Rush of my pulse.
8/15/2022
Contest: Let Your Muse Be Inspired - R Form
Sponsor: Constance La France
Roundel - abaR/bab/abaR
Refrain - 4 syllables, other lines 8 syllables
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it s that night right
tree has a toy
it the holiday joy
let hit the sack
do it back to back
come on baby lets minge
BAB LETS DO THE JINGE