Went on several romantic Arabian night dates
With a hot guy from the United Arab Emirates.
Now I am secretly longing as hopeless romantic heart waits.
Categories:
emirates, arabic, crush, love,
Form: Sijo
Dubai, a marvel nestled between nature's grandeur and technological prowess, enchants with its mesmerizing beauty. Skyscrapers reach for the heavens, their sleek forms kissing the azure sky.
Once tranquil fishing villages along the Arabian Gulf, now bustling hubs of life, Dubai boasts floating and soaring structures, embodying modernity's spirit.
From the curved grace of the Cayan Tower pulsating in the city's heart to the majestic embrace of the Emirates Towers, and the opulent silhouette of the Burj Al Arab, Dubai is a captivating sight.
Its beauty, a seamless fusion of human endeavor and natural splendor, transcends cosmetics, radiating from its gleaming visage, a testament to innovation and harmony.
Categories:
emirates, 12th grade, city,
Form: Free verse
So I dared to dream.
Whiles my colleagues were asleep I dared to dream dreams of hitz, which will one day become a reality.
So behind the scenes, my medulla oblongata never took advantage of the cozy weather condition.
For when I look behind, there was a need for up and speed.
Generations yet to comes, )mo their survival depends on me.
So I have got to develop the mentality of eyes close but I can see like the series called see.
They said cut your coat according to your size but in my case my mind runed on a bigger RAM, small boy with bigger memory size.
Pictures of the future hunting me when my eyes are open for time dey fly Emirates, am flying, try to gun me down and see fire from the Holy nation aka ChristlikeNation
So I have got to change how things are done during the day.
Step by step, Checks by checks,
Mentality check, reality check,
Eyes and mind ready to win and say check like we playing chess.
Till I cash these cheques
Till I become the best among the rest, I will always dare to Dream till I become the best am not ready to really sleep.
#DaredTo_Dream #Captainpoema
Categories:
emirates, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
It’s a voluntary widowhood.
Whipped by Neeli’s tongue,
he’s gone to harvest Dirhams*
in Dubai desert – lest the embryo
of their new home won’t grow up.
She’s alone in a temporary shed
behind the basement on the bank.
Indian Postman passes by like her
days flashing ‘No’ with his fingers.
She looks into the distant desert
through the window of nostalgia.
Fear creeps on the walls of her
heart at night - even a Norway rat
becomes a ghost rattling in kitchen.
Years slip into the chasm of past
leaving behind the doldrums on her
countenance. Time partitions her
basement – mongooses, bandicoots
and rats get their shares – holes and
chinks. Now her dreams with streaks
of love have shrunk like her womb.
*Dirham – currency of the United Arab Emirates
[First published by Encircle Publications, US]
Categories:
emirates, life,
Form: Free verse
At the sport of para-shooting, about focus,
Lorraine was in love at the first sight of it,
She’d been a rock climber, bad accident,
So she now competes at Paralympic writs.
She first fought at the Lower Limbs Games,
An event put on by famous Stoke Mandeville,
Where she earned a medal for every sport,
But it was para-shooting which had purport.
Her first individual gold came at Sharjah,
A state of the wealthy United Arab Emirates,
In 2011, which spurred her on to train hard:
She has a PhD in Psychology, she gaits.
In 2015 at the Shooting World Cup, Croatia,
She won bronze as a R8 50m rifle Sh1 anther;
She was born on the 29th of September 1972,
Has ex-navel partner and a son into kung fu.
Categories:
emirates, sports, strength,
Form: Verse
Richard is a wheelchair sprinter,
Also a middle distance competitor,
Who sometimes races along side,
David Weir, so he’s had it hard.
He was born on the 11th November,
In the disco year of 1981, England,
With spina bifida, and trains strong,
At the Harlow Athletic Club busy.
At the BT Paralympic World Cup,
In London in 2012 he won the gold,
And then that same year, Emirates,
Sharjah in the Persian Gulf, T54
Richard, at the close International
Open Athletics Meeting, a bronze.
He’s No. 1 in the UK in his class,
In the 100m, and also in the 200m.
In Grossetto in Italy, in year 2016,
Which held the IPC Europeans,
He collected 3 silvers and 1 gold,
In the 100, 400, 800m, and 200m.
But sadly at Rio he did miss out,
On a medal position, came forth,
When he won a time of 47.17 secs,
Because of wheelchair problems.
He only came short by 0.10 secs,
Came behind China’s Yan Liu,
Tunisia’s Yassine Gharbi quick,
And Holland’s Kenny Weeghel.
He made up much, lots of ground,
On the final bend, he pushed hard,
To finish with his head held high,
And absolutely nothing to regret.
Categories:
emirates, desire, endurance, health, race,
Form: Blank verse
In seeming innocence you lie in the warm ochre
in the center of a dust-kicked street,
a remnant of larger issues crushed to just the right size
by killing blows.
Before the mob merged before catcalls
raised the hairs on the back of your neck,
you had been of a favorite pet a cherished wife.
A wife and mother now lies dead brought down by
the bloodlust
of the men around her.
Today, the stones are coated rust-red with her blood
as another women of Iraq is laid low by the men who own them
husbands sons and fathers.
*Stoning is called Rajm in Islamic literature, and a practice found in United Arab Emirates, Iran, Iraq, Qatar, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Northern Nigeria, Aceh in Indonesia, Brunei, and Pakistan. Stoning is part & parcel of patriarchal societies.
Categories:
emirates, anger, , literature,
Form: Free verse
No
I had a desire to be a martyr to my word
To quench my desire for justice with the
Peak of my poor pen
To quash intolerance, racism, tribalism, tyranny
And quell my cowardice and my people’s
Stigma and egoism
I had a desire to be a martyr to my word
To break up with my people’s demoralizing jokes
That are ignorance and human rights’
Violation
I had a desire to oppose the patriarchal society
Of thousands of egoisms
With its uprooted self-absorbed traditional emirates
Hedged around with blindly and worldly pseudo-scholars
Who help to spread heinous racial prejudices
On the indigenous people
No to nepotism, tribalism, ethnocentrism, and tyranny
No to all the diktates of the outlaw
Who call themselves emirs in the republic!
Jaafar S El Waad
2014
Categories:
emirates, abuse, community, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
On the sands of time
How will his feet print on the sands of time?
The query he is so bothered to ask
Emirates, ere hit and run dashes his rhyme
And creates deep holes of vast pending task.
Will those little lights yet glow when he’s gone?
Or will they die off when he’s in that hole?
This, he meditates in his deepest lone,
Scribbles verse, should unexpected grips whole.
Placer orb was where he conceived this tongue;
Whence his momentary opt to torch the ground
Ere it will be too late to dong a gong-
Then the planet will guest still air of sound.
For the world abrupt visitors, he scribes
This anon writ, ere God sends His un-bribes.
©A.O, 4/3/2014.
Categories:
emirates, death, history, identity, memory,
Form: Sonnet