Was on the run
Not going anywhere
Caught again
But hopefully not for long
Might try a spell
I hope Djinn doesn’t put me in chains
Now for my next try
Categories:
djinn, art, dance, humorous, magic,
Form: Free verse
Now I have the money
Time to escape
Before Djinn wakes
Help
I’m running in haste
I think he’s coming
Categories:
djinn, art, gothic, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Made my escape
While the Djinn sleeps
Now to run off with the Djinns money
Need a large carrier
Must hurry
Categories:
djinn, dance, fantasy, giggle, gothic,
Form: Free verse
The Djinn put me in a bottle
I made him watch me as I did a spin.
Only to hide when I will make my escape
Categories:
djinn, funny love, gothic, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Make a wish
Layla awaits
Majnun
Of Persian lore
From the oil lamp
Smokeless fire
Jeweled
lizard of
Djinn
Casted out
Doomed into
an arid desert
The land of betrayal
Pans
On an endless night
(Yalto created by Edward Ibeh)
Categories:
djinn, betrayal, wisdom,
Form: Verse
Djinn arises from lamp, says
"You may have one wish."
"Make all the trash disappear."
The Earth ceases to exist.
Categories:
djinn, allegory, arabic, creation, death,
Form: Quatrain
Beyond a sandstorm’s gritty veil,
A solitary Bedouin,
Like a ghost in a sea of dunes,
Rides slowly along in the dusk.
The singing of rababah strings
Mimic the cooling evening winds;
Tambourines and flutes sound sadly
From the oasis where he’s bound.
His caravans once wound their ways
From the Atlas to the Tigris,
Trudging across the somber sands
Of a boundless and barren realm.
O Bedouin, where are thy tracks?
No hooves clatter in the wadis;
No trail of rotting camel dung.
O Bedouin, where are thy ways?
O Bedouin does your dirah
Yet teem with goat and camel flocks,
Since you have settled in the towns,
Which you once heaped with scorn and mocked?
O noble herdsman once so proud,
Tightly wrapped up in culture’s shroud,
Are you bottled up like the Djinn;
Forced to serve those who hemmed you in?
The rosy mirage of freedom
Is like a scarlet evening light
That paints the clouds with fiery hopes
Which fade in thralldom to the night.
Categories:
djinn, change, destiny, freedom, journey,
Form: Free verse
O'er dales and parched wells she flies
Come morning she'll blind
With her hypnotizing mist
And low whispers
Whispers that writhe the mind in agony
That have dazed the children
Of the Round City
As they prolix about the loud and narrow paths
She distills their minds
With the fermentation of grapes
Sending them around the fountains of despair
In a never ending whirl of noxious airs
Where colours collide
She proffers the hide of leather
For the blender of oils
To lend her a hand
To seduce the virgin bride
Whom she'll send to an abyss of evil
Where the resident sorcerer
Grows ever more indolent
As he feeds on boar
She twists in the sky
Upon the incensed wing of Hooriyah
A dear angel
Of the purest light
With duress she tosses her wing
Sending the djinn on a golden stream
It bathes the corners she inhabits
And showers the Earth
With the pure gold of the Celestial Chymist
And so the djinn speeds to the East
As the call of prayer
Shakes the land
Categories:
djinn, allegory, allusion,
Form: Imagism