In The Shadow of Sunlight
...We are the children of the Sun
We are the children of the light
We are a shadow yond the Sun
We are a shadow yond the light
The Sun sees us in the shadow
The light sees us in the shadow
The S...
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Categories:
faithfuls, analogy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
God's Work
...Why does the world look at God's Work with insolence
To be done cheaply and weakly and never to achieve excellence
While investing its great minds in humanistic intelligence
Depriving many and mak...
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Categories:
faithfuls, christian, gospel, work,
Form: Rhyme
It Is Christmas
...Showers of blessings shall fall
He shall stand you tall
In the Towers of mercy
In His Name.
Never to fall.
Forever, stand tall
Because He reigns
We shall reign
Spread love
For His sa...
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Categories:
faithfuls, birth, christmas, words, writing,
Form: Narrative
Silver Arrows, and Rickets
...nonsense purity
polymer
a squeezing of something
out
a tri fold with scores
of plastic, so necessarily unfulfilled
with pictorials
a social security card,
a card from the merchant marines
w...
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Categories:
faithfuls, 1st grade, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Concrete
Molecular Jesus
...Mountains reach up through clouds
Half way between Earth and heaven
To grow slower over vast tracks of time
Rocks seek snowflakes coming down ...
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Categories:
faithfuls, age, god, mountains, religion,
Form: Free verse
Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 38
...Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent- 38
More the man-made gods the more the quarrel
Who wants to pray in a private night-club
Each faithful thinks his god’s beyond riddle
Where fait...
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Categories:
faithfuls, conflict, god, political, religion,
Form: Villanelle
Miracles From a Painting
...Miracles From A Painting
Somewhere in Malaysia, a blessed Catholic family is witnessing some miraculous happenings…
These wondrous happenings are things unexpected and unforetold, with humble beg...
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Categories:
faithfuls, blessing, christian, inspiration, miracle,
Form: Narrative
A Second Letter To My Sister
...Dear sister
I am in my third year first semester
I hope you see yourself past that
You have to be perfect if you want to be like them
But write to me that all is done
That you have excelled Ma...
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Categories:
faithfuls, family, sister, visionary,
Form: I do not know?
Peoples
...To have a better understanding,
Peoples in my view; mind; and heart
Are in three categories: faithfuls my beloved,
Atheists whom I do not hate, they express their inners;
Last category are hypocr...
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Categories:
faithfuls, people, , atheist,
Form: Free verse
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Thirty
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Thirty
While the Mullah versed in the Hadith and fiqh harangued his flock
All over the milling crowds outside plastic cups did hands lock
By four even before...
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Categories:
faithfuls, allegory,
Form: Rubaiyat
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Twenty
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty
Trillion pin-pricks of the sticky mists surround the mosque’s turret
Shrouding the pallid angular slabs of the Faithfuls outlet:
Even the muzzled pit-...
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Categories:
faithfuls, allegory,
Form: Rubaiyat
Wake Up
...See, the stars are heading towards mars
The faithfuls are hungry over mass
And the nation's treasury needs a political pass.
Broken pieces of human dignity
Lies scattered on the earth of greed.
Able...
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Categories:
faithfuls, courage, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Month
...The best month of
the year
The best in the life
of mankind
Ramadhan!
The mercy of the
Creator
On the generality of
mankind
Ramadhan!
The month in which
mercy
Flows in streams
Ra...
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Categories:
faithfuls, religion,
Form: Free verse
False Cause
...FALSE CAUSE
Elite few for their political reasons & scheming
in deception drew many feeble fellows with a tint of religious emotion
Men who do evil in the name of good and serve the devil in the n...
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Categories:
faithfuls, allegory, black african american,
Form: Epic
Why Troubled
...WHY TROUBLED?
WHY TROUBLED WHEN YOU CAN’T FUMBLE
WHY COMPLAIN WHEN THERE ARE NO CONSTRAINS
WHY DO YOU HUNGER WHEN THERE IS FOOD IN YOUR MOUTH
WHY DO YOU WAIT ANXIOUSLY WHEN YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE GIVEN ...
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Categories:
faithfuls, inspirational, heart, heart,
Form: ABC
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