Homs Poems - Poems about Homs

The Thing

...The things of which we cannot speak
Make us become we cannot say
The thing brought back from yesterday
That praised the strong and crushed the weak

That thing whose name we cannot name
That fa...

Categories: homs, america, anger, conflict, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

Poetic Prognostication Proves Itself Pathetic Pablum Part One

...Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer avails two alms
seeking succor asper Somerset Maugham.

Mom mee whiz able to sic cure human bondage,
boot metastatic ca...

Categories: homs, anger, confusion, crush, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Coming of Age In America

...At age sixteen you can drive a new car
   Although you can't enter (most) taverns or bars 
At sixteen you can even drop out of school
   If that's who you really think you are

At age eighteen y...

Categories: homs, birthday, freedom, fun, satire,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Last Night

...Quarter past two
out to the loo.
Back into bed
laying my head
thoughts come to mind
worries to find.

Over I turn
but still they return.
All out of sorts,
why do these thoughts
infect and ...

Categories: homs, assonance, judgement, pain, political,
Form: Couplet

Refugee

...Beating the midday forlorn sun
By foot they begun the journey leaving the pun
Beware of the dangers and tactics to shun  
Between that time and reaching the destination without fun
Beholding the ...

Categories: homs, war, , western,
Form: I do not know?

Homicide

...Homicide

Homs Damascus Allepo

Home to homeless rubicon

Haunted hangman’s habitat

Humanity castrated

Hosts of hegemomial 

Holocaustic genocide

Harvest of hypocrisy 



7-7-7-7...

Categories: homs, holocaust,
Form: Free verse

A Crimson Letter From Aleppo

...From the dusty street of Homs I write
Head buried in ashes- white
Hopes piled up in monumental rubble
 hearts engulfed in catastrophic trouble
A motherless child cries in the still
My home, a de...

Categories: homs, war,
Form: Free verse

Syria

...Syria
In the ugly streets of Homs I lied on my back snipers´ fire hit
 walls and filled my nose with cement dust and the horrid 
smell of early death, the aftermath of abused young men
who have o...

Categories: homs, courage,
Form: Blank verse

My Poetic Journey

...Wen I was jest a litl boy
An a pensil was mi toy
I likd to rit poms
An did mi best … homs

As a teenager
I began to revolt
I got an attitude
To the man I was rude
My writing was crude
I experimented
...

Categories: homs, writing, universe,
Form: Bio

Syrian Graveyard

...Unnumbered human corpses
mutilated and spread
like illegally-shot elephants in Waza Park!
From ‘man know thyself’
to ‘man hates himself’-
humans mutilate humans!

Future-bound glorious infants,
feebl...

Categories: homs, war,
Form: Verse

Media Coverage

...while syria bombs homs
what is america doing with it's drones
are the bombs in syria less deadly than ours
or are the eye's of the media aimed at what 
our leaders want us to see
truly the terrorist ...

Categories: homs, death, political,
Form: Narrative

Pain As a Hobby Ix

...I need a page break
If you keep reading you’re about to catch bird flu
It’s changing seasons all around you
Sit back the words are causing your body to react
You feel like a woman going through m...

Categories: homs, allegory, black african american,
Form: I do not know?