Best Omar Poems

Bike to Work day:  escorting the funeral of Marine Albrak Omar
Loch David Crane
Patriot Guard Riders
September 2009

No more classes now that I've been fired!
Patriotism is...

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Ruba’i*: Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Khayyam*, Omar son of Ibrahim, the tent-maker

Words awoke on the retina of the astronomer
Unknown aeons piled dark energy upon dark matter
Astral...

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Time Does Not Stand Still

Yesterday is remembered
And tomorrow we have not seen 
Uncertainty and memories
Surround us in today.

The cycle never changes
And time does not stand...

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Jerusalem expensive 

They took her by force and took it from under our feet They went out 
We love and we want, but their weapons...

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I was here
I was here
First

I was here

First

Take a breath of
oxygen
Your choking on
confidence
The lights are on
but you cant see
Slit wrist 
Bleed

You took my life
from me
Let us...

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The love was a dream so I hope that I keep the length of my life asleep 
The series was your love I do not...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty-Six

Soon all the rooms at trysting hotel were for years booked through
By pilgrims from Mindanao and Minangkabau to...

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Nobody moves...nobody talks,
And who dares...gets sharp folks,
Stuff his mouth...stuff her rear,
Terror reigns and tearing fear,

Disfigured being a pierced face,
To whomsoever present my case?
They are all...

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I am honored to extend my personal creations each lovers of articles and thoughts and love letters that  pin up my blog, which I...

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THE PALPITATION OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA (USA)

Decimation on its face through mass execution and hate.
Just another night out painting the town. 
No reason to perceive the...

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In quest to find respite and solitude 
spiritual food
it's to the sea I owe my gratitude

Only in my dreams
while adrift under starlight and moonbeams
I'm free...

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Under the Wright conditions
man can fly.
So thought Orville and Wilbur
and in those days,
folks really named their children
Orville and Wilbur.
Eventually, their dream 
was realized;
short hops at...

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I sat on the pavement of memories and dreams hoped to retrieve 
In my imagination for weddings looked and I saw the pain on the...

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Dependable Defender Jésus Christ of Nazareth Football Club

This morning lost His appeal for the red card He received

During His side game with the highly rated...

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Oh, you do not want to know my tale,
But since you insist, I guess I'll just tell,

Originally from mystical India -- not Rome!
Some 30 years...

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That is truth, 
in England  
all people have looked as polished talents and genius,
even a driver there
or porter, or steward, 
or begger, or trader,...

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 Four things come not back:
the spoken word;  the sped arrow;
time past; the neglected opportunity.

Omar Ibn Al-Halif, Aphorism
___________________ 

On a beautiful Fall day- ...

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Why Do I Write?

I was born in an era when Shakespeare, Shelley and Wordsworth were kings.  Reading them was like hearing beautiful music and...

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Alpha Ursa Major, Alert (Ali),
Bardonino (Bart), Barbera,
Cory, Cody, Cowboy
Deschka, Dodger, Drummer Boy,
Eroica, Elektra,
Firebird (Sandy’s daughter), Firecracker, 
Gangster, Gandy Dancer, Gimmick,
Happy Feet, Hellsapoppin, Hurricane Hattie,
Image, Iesha,
Just...

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Youth stray, lost and in prostitution. 
  Girls were foolish, and Finery Sepehrt. 
  Men are busy, to raise their children in Tarcn...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Eighteen

Even as the lower rubbed its dazed eyes over Her hillocks
The light-foot Lass of Lahore made her way...

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Itinerant mercenary shrouded with penitent robe
Shining beacon for terrorists around the globe
Hermetic curmudgeon; gun-toting xenophobe
Zealous provacateur who for ardent jihadists did probe

Material wealth a means;...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part One

Lone gold Venus nears the sickle moon in the late autumn sky
She lies naked dreaming with one leg...

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People smoke weed, or crack to ignore problems and laugh hysterically,
coffee is my drug, it's my quick pick-me-up...I say it so proudly,
because it won't harm...

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