Allah Earth Poems

The difference
between RightWing political
and economic autism,
and Religious Right monotheism,
has been greatly exaggerated

To this post-millennial tipping point
of monopolistic omnipotence
predicting sacred Earth's matricide

By LeftBrain-RightHand 
dogmatic dominance
of a...

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I feel victimized
by the commercial success
of what was once a silent,
waiting,
watching
for Emmanuel,
Allah WithIn Us

I wonder
when I become red-faced angry
about not being able to CONSERVE
sufficient power...

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Where the God Exists? 


Oh God! Where is your presence & essence.
With respect in my chest
Started to find you in plains, plateau and Everest.
With honour...

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In dreams
i am always lurched by soothing zephyrs
      across the lovely streets of Medina
  
   Searching thy...

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"The left hemisphere's assault on our embodied nature
is not just an assault on OUR bodies,
but on the embodied nature of the
[sacred EarthMother]
world around us."
Iain McGilchrist,...

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Thought Police

Be careful what you say, 
be careful who you say it to. 
It might be heard... 
by someone that does not like it!

They will...

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Like the ambiance of the setting of the sun be has risen.

A time to tear down. A time to rebuild. A time to be jubilant,...

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MOTHER EARTH


Oh stunning mother earth…
Foetus bellied out from you
Neonates became primates
You and I.

The talents of man
The forest of trees
The game of animals
Became the beauties of...

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in my study on my table
to left near my keyboard,
you will find a Rubik’s cube,
that is indeed a perfect sphere!
a manufacturing error, I supposed,
like errors...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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What shall I write of you
When you give me all the words 
What shall I think of you
When you give me all the thoughts 
What...

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English translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"

Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan 
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Enough for me...

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HEAVEN ON EARTH
This world can be a heaven before Heaven comes
If we all live religiously with love for each other
Do what the Books say, obeying...

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Shear troubles make us realize
What‘s the real life's worth
O, dear Lord please! 
Have mercy on the earth.

We know mortality of souls
Yes we are mortals but
We...

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Wormwood

There is a place, 
in the middle of nowhere... now. (hushed whisper) 
It is hot and cooking,
and yet...things are green. 
Nature has taken back, 
what...

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