Compliment Cry Extolment Rave Hymn
All to Allah, acclaim Holy Hallelujah
Elohim, greatest thing,
Allah Papa God
Divine exaltation
In cheering celebration, extolment
--Compliment cry Extolment Rave Hymn
Glorifications encomium homage
Approbation ovation
Plaudit approbation recognition
He’s mine Allah panegyric glorification
Our spirit the soul rave
--Compliment Cry Extolment Rave Hymn
Hallelujah
02/17/26
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2026©
--ALLAH GLORIOUS
Keep in mind, in your mind
Hamd is praise, Glorious
Allah Glorious
Is before us, He’s Glorious
He’s the greater praise
Mine in Him He is awe
In all He’s everything
Hamd praise
Is as greater as is Hallelujah
02/17/26
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2026©
Calabrese Joey the Clown
or Sammy the Bull either
way doing hits for the mob
attacking disabled mothers
for sport truly arriving at
the conclusion of where
to bury Anthony Ant and
his brother moving over
boundaries of Jamaican
snatch pulling home
invasions carried out
through the malice of
my wearing wires pregnant
for the Fbi buying weapons
and drugs from junk sick
African American officers
the twisted balance sings
me lullabies while I can still
hear my fetus heart beat
not fearing any man hence
I am not fearing you bully
EvermoreAllah praise be Father
who You are
you are as I lift you up
you are joyful
you're holding me in your heart
you are breath of Life
and I praise you
I am part so whole
I choose to worship you so
I lift you up I adoring the I lift you up
I exalted the sky's the limits
I praise you I praise giving all alms and portions
praise on you ever so evermore
But your kingdom of Glory praise you ever so holy Allah
10/1/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2023
Praise be to Allah
Lord of the Worlds
For all that blessings
He has given us
The ability to see,
Hear, see, walk, talk,
much more to list
I don't know the way to prostrate properly
I don't know how to make supplications discreetly
The droplets just drip down my cheeks
That's how this thing mercy seeks
I know my faults, so I feel guilty
But I know my Lord, He'll so benevolently
forgive my sins, if I ask regretfully
My sinful past can't hinder my path
Because my matter is already dealt with and
I don't need a man to hear or attend
It's me and my Lord, and He does listen
I wrong and wrong, repent and repent
I cry and cry, and I return again
See His forgiveness, He always forgives
And not to mention, the favours He gives
Air, water, clothes, food, and family
He has never seized, whether I am faulty
And provides all these bounties solely
This is my Lord, my God, my Allah
Nothing is comparable, He's the one and only
All glory is to one
Who's the creator
Of earth and sky,
Sun and moon,
Stars and galaxies
The creator of all
The mountains and peaks,
Hills and plateaus,
Rivers and seas,
Ponds and lakes
All the things,
Leaves and flowers,
Animals and plants
Are witnessing of Allah
The creator of everything
'O
Oh! Hamd
By the name of Allah God
Allah
Hamd, Hamd
~
Praise
Allah, Allah
Oh, I (we) shall
All exclusively
Praise Him Allah, Allah
Hamd by the name of God
~
All praise all praise, praise Allah all praise to Allah
Hamd by the name of God
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022
1/13/22
Shouting your name does the trick
Echoing when the heart is empty
I lamented all the signs
Really ruining my fate.
Dropped repugnantly colonial
It spreads and hates changes.
Some remnants of nobility
Sort of pinnacle
All corrupted spelling in my prayer
Alhamdulillah.
With grateful heart, deep gratitude, and satisfactions,
All types of praise and thanks be to Allah
For the good things He has given
For keeping me healthy and wealthy
I am very thankful to Allah for all things,
I have had
I have heard
I have read
I have seen
All types of Hamd be to Allah
The sky was a Gray
And yet a Thunder did roll.
Add Wind Rain and Hail.
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And so
I can’t go
To the show
No no no
Locked in a cage
Can’t they see
My rage
Innocent these souls,
Let alone in journey
Along the road
The strings to sit on hands
Struggling the kites up for survival
The wings,what wrong?
Why not they like doves,strong?
Losing breadwinner on a day of shock
Slices of their bread,where is locked?
How to find room in hearts?
To park the vessels of sorrow
Death is a creator,
Widows and orphans,some
The blanket they wear
Woven with tear and fear
These plants are at risk
Erect the fences,quick!
At a glance,
Off the glass,
They are like our class!
Widows,no a curse
When death is the cause
In case death a curse
Paradise a worst
If the paradise a worst
This planet becomes a curse
Open wide,
All panels of heart windows
Sense there,
Some souls to share and care!
GOD BLESS YOU
I Asked the Lord to bless you.
As I prayed for you today.
That God will guide you and protect you
As you go along the way.
His love is always with you.
His promises are true.
And when we give Him all our cares,
You know He will see us through.
And when the road you are travelling on
seems difficult at best,
Just remember well wishing friends are always praying,
And God will do the rest.
Your bad past doesnot mean that
You donot deserve the good future.
But only and only if
You turned your thinking and mentality
To be a moderate man.
This is well known truth
God protection is more than killing hands.
No one will have ability to harm you.
If you have solid character and solid personality
To do sin is not good
But to promise not to do sin again is a good habit.
If you will create a down to earth personality
Which should not have crack like broken mirror.
Then we can say
We are Blessed by GOD in both worlds.
Before Death in dunya and after death in akhrat.
Hamd in Hammam
His or her word is everything resolved
Absolved enlightened entwined where
Mistress and master join in passion in
Birth and rebirth recant their solemn prayer
In every flower deed conviction praise
Nirvana even in the Turkish bath where
Harun and Hafeeza in separate chambers
Adhere to cleansing body mind and soul
Miraculous to every pore and purified
Mantra tantric to the highest order
A ceremonial purge in steam in heat and
Measurement of heaven haven Allah’s creed
13th February 2017
Introduction
Praise becomes most compelling when reverence does not erase the human voice. In a Hamd, the poet approaches Allah through awe, gratitude, wonder, humility, or spiritual need, yet must still find language that feels personally discovered. That tension makes the community poems rewarding to read side by side: each writer faces the same devotional center while choosing a different emotional distance, scale of imagery, and manner of address.
As you browse the poems in this collection, you may encounter intimate prayer-like speech, expansive celebration, quiet contemplation, or praise shaped by hardship. One poet may dwell on a single blessing; another may move through nature, memory, moral struggle, or the vastness of creation. Some voices may sound ceremonial, while others rely on plain speech and restrained gratitude. The interest lies not only in what is praised, but in how the speaker discovers a credible path toward praise.
Reading beyond the first example reveals how differently poets manage a central challenge: devotional certainty can provide great emotional force, but familiar language can become predictable unless renewed by precise observation and individual experience. Compare how each poet selects divine attributes, handles repetition, balances declaration with image, and closes the poem. A single Hamd may offer a moving encounter; several together show the form as an active field of choices about voice, attention, sound, and spiritual relationship.
Reading Guide
Read a Hamd on two levels at once: receive its devotional movement, then notice the craft that makes that movement convincing. Praise may appear to be a single emotional direction, but a poem can travel toward it through doubt, recollection, astonishment, repentance, relief, or renewed trust. As you read the community poems, pay attention to how the poet creates that journey rather than merely naming its destination.
- Mode of address: Notice whether the speaker addresses Allah directly, speaks about Allah, or moves between the two. Direct address can create intimacy and urgency, while third-person praise can sound more meditative or public. Which approach makes you feel closest to the speaker's act of devotion?
- Sources of praise: Identify the concrete evidence on which the poem rests: breath, shelter, family, natural beauty, guidance, endurance, or another blessing. Specific evidence gives praise imaginative weight. When comparing poems, ask which details turn an abstract declaration into a lived recognition.
- Emotional movement: Trace the speaker's condition from opening to ending. Does sorrow become trust, bewilderment become awe, or ordinary attention become gratitude? Ask whether the praise develops through the poem or remains emotionally unchanged.
- Repetition and accumulation: Listen for recurring names, phrases, sentence shapes, or lists of blessings. Repetition can resemble remembrance or communal recitation, but it can also flatten emphasis if every return feels identical. Which poet varies the repeated element so that its meaning deepens?
- Scale of imagery: Compare images of intimate daily life with images of sky, oceans, light, time, or creation. A shift in scale can suggest the relationship between the finite speaker and divine greatness. Does the poem connect its large and small images, or merely place them beside one another?
- Sound and breath: Read several lines aloud and hear how pauses, vowels, consonants, and sentence lengths shape reverence. Flowing syntax may create surrender or abundance; short units may convey awe, certainty, or humility. Where does the poem invite the voice to slow down?
- The final gesture: Observe whether the ending offers affirmation, gratitude, submission, renewed praise, or a quiet image. Closure matters because a Hamd often gathers emotional and spiritual pressure. Does the last movement feel earned by what preceded it, or does it simply restate the opening?
Compare several poets' approaches without treating one style as the only valid model. The most useful question is not which poem sounds most elevated, but how successfully each poem unites devotion, particular experience, and memorable language.
Writing Tips
Begin a Hamd by locating the experience that has made praise necessary for this particular speaker at this particular moment. A general wish to sound reverent rarely supplies enough imaginative energy. A recovered hope, an unnoticed daily mercy, a night of uncertainty, or an encounter with creation can give the poem an emotional occasion. Let the devotional purpose guide the draft, but allow the poem to discover how praise is reached.
- Choose a focused doorway: Rather than attempting to encompass every blessing or divine attribute, enter through one vivid circumstance. A narrow subject can open into spiritual magnitude. Ask what the speaker saw, feared, remembered, or received just before the impulse to praise arose.
- Build praise from particulars: Replace broad claims with sensory or experiential evidence wherever possible. If the draft praises provision, show what provision means in a human life. Concrete details do not diminish reverence; they reveal how the speaker recognizes it.
- Give the poem an inner journey: Devotional certainty need not produce a static poem. Let each section alter the speaker's understanding. The draft might move from self-absorption to attention, from distress to reliance, or from naming blessings to recognizing the limits of language.
- Use divine attributes purposefully: Select names or qualities because they matter to the poem's occasion, not because they sound conventionally elevated. An attribute connected to mercy, guidance, power, or creation should influence the imagery and emotional logic around it.
- Make repetition progressive: A recurring invocation or phrase can give the poem a recited, meditative character. Change its context, syntax, or emotional force each time it returns. Mechanical repetition counts occurrences; effective repetition records transformation.
- Balance humility with a distinct voice: Humility does not require the poet to disappear into generalized devotional diction. Plain speech, local detail, personal memory, and an individual rhythm can remain visible while the attention stays directed toward Allah.
- Control elevation: Beginners sometimes rely on strings of superlatives, ornate abstractions, or continuous exclamation. Such intensity can leave the poem with nowhere to rise. Vary the pressure by including silence, simple statements, physical images, and moments of reflective restraint.
- Shape an earned ending: Avoid closing merely because a familiar declaration has been reached. Return to an earlier image with changed meaning, condense the poem into a final act of gratitude, or let the ending acknowledge that praise exceeds the speaker's words. The last lines should complete the emotional movement without claiming to exhaust the subject.
During revision, read the entire draft aloud at a calm, deliberate pace. Mark where breath becomes strained, where sound turns sing-song, and where abstract language weakens attention. Test every image for relevance to the central act of praise, and remove lines that only repeat an idea without intensifying it. Then ask a trusted reader where the poem felt most sincere and where it became predictable. Preserve reverence, but revise until the language sounds inhabited rather than borrowed.
Interesting Facts
- Praise creates productive difficulty: Because the destination may seem clear from the outset, the poet must create discovery through attention, sequence, and emotional change. Suspense comes less from what the speaker believes than from how that belief becomes newly felt.
- Restraint can intensify devotion: A quiet image or measured statement may carry more reverence than a succession of emphatic claims. The space around an image allows readers to participate in wonder rather than being told continuously what to feel.
- Repetition can perform remembrance: When an invocation returns with altered context, it does more than organize the poem. It enacts the mind's repeated turning toward Allah, making recurrence part of the spiritual experience rather than a decorative pattern.
- Human vulnerability can strengthen praise: Grief, uncertainty, remorse, or dependence need not weaken the devotional center. When handled with care, vulnerability clarifies what gratitude, trust, or mercy costs the speaker emotionally.
- Scale changes the relationship: Images of galaxies, seasons, or oceans can create awe, while images of water, food, sleep, or breath can create intimacy. Moving between scales allows a poet to place daily life within a larger sense of creation.
- Recitation exposes different strengths than silent reading: A poem that appears simple on the page may gather force through cadence, pause, and recurring sound. Conversely, ornate language may feel cumbersome when spoken. Reading the community poems aloud can reveal where devotion and vocal rhythm reinforce one another.
- Variation is part of understanding the form: Browsing several community interpretations shows that shared devotional purpose does not require a shared tone. Comparison helps readers distinguish the form's spiritual identity from any one poet's preferred vocabulary, pacing, or poetic architecture.
Popular Themes
Subject matter in a Hamd is never merely a topic placed inside a poetic container. The chosen theme determines the speaker's posture toward Allah and influences scale, imagery, pace, and tone. The following are literary possibilities rather than claims about which subjects appear most often in the collection.
- Gratitude for ordinary provision: Food, shelter, rest, companionship, and breath allow praise to emerge from recognizable life. Their apparent simplicity challenges the poet to reveal significance without overstating it.
- Creation and natural wonder: Light, weather, landscapes, animals, and the night sky can open the poem toward magnitude and order. This theme works best when observation remains exact rather than becoming a catalogue of generic beauty.
- Guidance through uncertainty: A speaker facing confusion can shape praise as movement from disorientation toward trust. The emotional contrast gives the poem direction while allowing spiritual reliance to become dramatically felt.
- Mercy, forgiveness, and return: Reflection on error or distance can lend praise humility and urgency. The poet can explore not only relief, but the changed self-understanding that follows an experience of mercy.
- Endurance in suffering: Illness, grief, deprivation, or fear can create a demanding context for praise. The strongest treatment does not minimize pain; it shows how gratitude, patience, or trust exists beside it.
- Divine greatness and human limitation: Contrasts between vast creation and the finite speaker naturally support awe. They also invite careful tonal choices, since humility becomes more persuasive through precise perspective than through self-erasure.
- Love, nearness, and longing: Devotional affection can give the poem tenderness, intensity, or yearning. Concrete signs of relationship help distinguish spiritually grounded longing from generalized emotional language.
As you read the community poems, compare how writers transform similar material through different voices. Two poets may begin with the same blessing yet create entirely different experiences through imagery, emotional history, repetition, and closure. The theme provides the occasion; the poet's arrangement of attention makes the poem individual.
Editorial Insights
The central artistic tension in a Hamd lies between a shared devotional orientation and the need for freshly encountered language. Praise naturally draws on familiar expressions because familiarity can carry reverence, continuity, and communal resonance. Yet a poem becomes memorable when those expressions are activated by a particular consciousness. The reader should sense not only that praise is being offered, but why it has become urgent now and what inward change occurs as it is voiced.
Structure feels necessary when it follows the speaker's spiritual attention. An accumulating sequence may suggest blessings becoming newly visible; a refrain may enact repeated remembrance; a movement from darkness toward light may embody restored trust. These devices lose force when applied mechanically. Regular patterning, elevated diction, or repeated invocation cannot substitute for development. Editors and attentive readers look for pressure behind the arrangement: each return, pause, and image should alter the emotional field rather than simply confirm the poem's category.
Predictability is the most persistent danger. A draft may rely on generalized majesty, familiar natural images, or unqualified declarations that leave little room for discovery. Forced ornament can make devotion sound performed rather than experienced, while excessive explanation can close off the contemplative space that imagery creates. Another weakness is insufficient development: the opening announces gratitude, the middle repeats it, and the ending announces it again. Stronger poems establish relationships among image, memory, vulnerability, and affirmation, so praise becomes the result of sustained attention.
Individuality remains visible through the speaker's chosen scale, syntax, details, and emotional route. One poet may use spare lines and domestic images to suggest quiet reliance; another may prefer long, sonorous sentences that gather into awe. Neither approach is inherently more faithful or more accomplished. What matters is the coherence between voice and spiritual occasion. Browse the poems in this collection with that relationship in mind. Comparing multiple examples sharpens the ability to distinguish sincerity from vagueness, resonant repetition from redundancy, and an earned devotional conclusion from a merely expected one.
Read, Write & Share
Read beyond the first example and allow several community poems to speak beside one another. Compare how each poet approaches Allah through gratitude, awe, vulnerability, remembrance, or restraint, and notice which images, sounds, and turns remain with you.
Thoughtful comments can deepen that exchange: mention a specific line movement, image, repetition, or ending that shaped your response. Then try composing your own Hamd from an experience that has made praise feel necessary. Revise it for precision and vocal cadence, and consider publishing it on PoetrySoup so future readers can encounter another interpretation of the form.
Collection Statistics
This collection currently contains 8 poems, offering multiple opportunities to compare devotional voices, images, emotional movements, and approaches to praise. A collection of this size is large enough to reveal meaningful contrasts without suggesting that one example represents the whole form. As you browse, keep in mind that poets may follow inherited expectations closely, adapt them to a personal poetic voice, or challenge customary approaches while preserving the poem's devotional center.
Hamd Categories
Read wonderful hamd poetry on the following sub-topics:
praise, allah, almighty, love
and more.
Definition | What is Hamd in Poetry?
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Related Poetry Forms
allah, almighty, ghazal, islam, marsiya, naat, nazm, praise, qasida, qawwali, rubai