Best Taha Poems

101  POETS

I want to thank 101 poets, when words have no limit.
All 101 spots full of flowing imagery and spirit.
Nathan Dilts my #1~writing for him was so much fun.
Nikko's, words are like a shot at roulette~smoking writes like a cigarette.
Writes of fashion from Michael...

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"Lucifer's Laments"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Dramatic Monologue)

Do You not see, Almighty God,
How Your order man defied?
So base, so vile, so gravely flawed,
Yet so consumed by pride!

He broke all sacred codes though warned,
He dared to pay no heed,
He mocked Your words, Your gifts he 
scorned,
He breached what...

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"Victus"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Didactic)

Amidst the gloom of night's dark shroud,
lurks Death in far corners of the shade.
To vanquish my fears to God I bowed,
And death shall find me... unafraid.

Amidst this vale of tears and pain,
my heart in life's robbed solace bled.
God gave me strength to...

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"Ensnare My Heart"

By M. Taha Effendi

(Ballad)

O beautiful maiden of my captive heart,
Are you not the lone bard's pompous muse?
With allure that inspired the divine art,
Heavens' hand made you with such delicate use,

What sweet circumstance upon me befalls,
My heart the endearing perfidy has plotted,
Entombed in my...

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The Old Man

Eleven Thousand miles away,
there lives an old man, so they say.
He works and toils to teach and make,
his students smart and chocolate cake.

He has an old, worn pair of specs.
He has a mailbox, daily he checks.
He has an orange shirt he wears,
with blue...

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The Lily: 

I found it swaying, happily among, 
Its stranger friends, with me laughing along. 
I hadn’t a clue, how crucial it’d be, 
To my sanity, love, knowledge and glee. 
We spent nights and days, talking endlessly, 
Of sorrow, thoughts, books, future, reality, 
So close...

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"At Times I Wonder"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Nazam)

At times I wonder what life would have been worth
Spent cloaked in soft shades of your sable tresses
If ill-fated darkness that shrouds my  wrecked hearth
Was slayed by vigorous radiance of your eyes' recesses

Oblivious to earthly callings would it...

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"Estranged Love"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Rhyme)

Countless days came and passed,
each day in misery spent.
every day I live as my last,
since the day you are absent.

Each day I hope of your return,
I find my hopes desert me.
To bear this pain the more i yearn,
the more it grows...

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"The Hen-pecked Husband"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Light Poetry)

The door bell rang yet again,
and yonder heard the distinct voice,
of my dear old wife, full of pain,
drowned all my dreams of rejoice.

then came the thundering slap,
that landed on my cheek now red,
and as I panicked out of my...

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"Lone Survivor"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Sonnet)

He wandered through each ravaged street,
death lurked wherever strayed his feet,
His ears resounded with frantic, dying calls,
of those whose blood stained the city's walls,
With tears he gazed at the darkened sky,
cursed what bombed his city till it would die,
Before him lay...

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Rongtern Mansion
By M. Taha Effendi

(Verse Libre)

The front door of the mansion mysteriously creaks open,

I freeze.

Hoping to hear a welcoming voice,
But all I hear is the wailing of the cold wind,
The pitter-patter of rain outside,
And the roar of lightning,
The room reeks of damp, decayed wood and...

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The tormented cries of a heart confined
Barely ever met a gratifying end
The meager state is but a trick of your mind
For the course of destiny lies in your own hand

Forsaken love, a conceivable excuse
For a shattered being, to give up life
It is but a presumption,...

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"Without You"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Ballad)

Every day without her I spend crying,
praying there's always a smile on her face.
i'm tired of hiding from her that i'm lying,
i'm tired of hiding that i'm losing my grace.

She called me last night to ask if i'm well.
I lied,"i have...

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Unrequited Soliloquies Of The Heart 
Estranged

By M. Taha Effendi

(Sonnet)

As I walk along the twilit avenue,
A forlorn heart bids the day adieu,
The rubicund sun withdraws its weary 
gaze,
Surrenders its quest of endless days,
Vagrant clouds drift to uncharted lands,
Twilight steals a last glance through 
evening's hands,
The gloaming...

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Before you read the following poem, please read the first part of this poem that I have posted on this website separately.




"Deliverance"
by M. Taha Effendi

(Didactic)

Oh mortal! Do not be sad,
I know it hurts to wait.
Have patience, you will be glad,
to learn what's in your fate.

I...

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