Long Abase Poems

PSYCHOTIC JOURNEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Feeling really beat,  I went to bed early last night
Suddenly awakened feeling something’s not right
There was total darkness, I was not in my room
Lying on a cold flooring, with a feeling...

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These are English translations of Urdu poems by Faiz Ahmad Faiz. 



Speak!
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Speak, while your lips are still free.
Speak, while your tongue remains yours.
Speak, while you’re still standing...

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What 
a 
life 
we 
are 
all 
living 
in
Where 
there 
are 
so 
many 
ironic 
feelings
A 
place 
where 
every 
thing 
seem 
like 
a 
mystery
Especially 
when 
think 
of 
all 
your 
misery
A 
place 
where 
people 
feel 
abhorrent
Over 
their 
fellow...

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They fashion stone or wood and in sin
Worship it adorned with silver and gold,
And that it totter not as scarecrows in
A melon patch, they fasten it hold
By hammers with nails; there it will be

With eyes...

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The reality be told, it was not long past
Flabbergast by an unfold from my minds vague vast
In the reflections of the accounts of my youth 
As several echo’s formed claiming to be truth
Must be fabricated....

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August 15 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Ezekiel 45-48

Key Verse – Ezekiel 45:1 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an...

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I sat at the bottom of your 
heavenly stair case, 
looking at your face that 
makes me abase.
Terror and fear runs down 
my spine, 
making it seems as if our 
relationship may be twine.
My feet...

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September 28 Scripture Meditations Based on Luke 2-3

Key Verse– Luke 2:32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR LIGHTING ME UP

Thank You for lighting me...

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July 7 Scripture Meditations Based on Proverbs 30

Key Verse – Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR SHIELDING...

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July 14 Scripture Meditations Based on Isaiah 1-6

Key Verse – Isaiah 6: 3 … Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.  

MY GOD, THANK YOU...

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December 27 Scripture Meditations Based on Revelation 15-16

Key Verse – Revelation 15:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast,...

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A dreary sun shoots its milk-warm and colorless sun rays that
in this jovial season should be harmonious and radiant;
raves themselves are wearing the funeral dress...
they croak, lament, and cringe at ghostly shadows
that set a murky...

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Bruising,kicking,clubbing,
chanting,ranting,yelling
from afar their 
judgement is 
pronounced
scourging,ravaging,encompassed
their foes 
enmassed
their woe is 
come
ensnared in rage.
No attention 
given
brutally abase at 
fraternities delight
blood splitting
blood gushing
sands soaked in 
blood
as of mud from 
a downpour
fraternities 
yelling,cheering,
as their 
massacre 
delights them all
no...

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Virginia, June 8, 1789
James Madison penned the constitution
And on December 15, 1791
It became America’s resolution

The first amendment clearly states
No abridging of the freedom to speak
We may assemble peacefully
With either praise or critique

Facts gathered respectfully
Researched and...

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April 7 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Samuel 12-15

Key Verse – 2Samuel 12:22 …Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?

PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO IS...

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How many times must we amend
The gruesome news of death again?
What venue will Fate next abase, 
some hapless, unsuspecting place?
Such acts still shake us to the core -
These senseless slaughters some ignore.
We're told that guns...

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June 1 Scripture Meditations Based on Psalms 120-124

Key Verse – Psalm 122:6 Pray for peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.   

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR PROSPERING ME

Thank You for prospering...

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no terror by night or arrow by day can devour or destroy me or lead me astray
the devil gets played as prophets get paid
diminsihed is darkness as light takes the stage
rebellion and rage turn to...

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My soul, oft chosen compensate
does arc, soft spoken in its contemplate,
so chosen, like some agile counter base
to lead in thee ~ injustice to erase!

All error, that this timing could replace
to yesteryear, the idea seeming craze,
and...

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I know when you abase me at kunan, was sniffy day for me.
My people at that time were surrounded by threat and poverty.
Know it they are dearest for me.
I warn you sacrilegious nation,
Hacklers are arriving...

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The realm of faith is a sacred space
and dwellers there must self, abase.
There, spiritual laws govern sphere,
and perfect trust banishes fear.

God is the ruler of the realm
therefore His actions overwhelm.
The things that happen in this...

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"Chasing The Many Faces of God ( We the People Series)

There they are__ made each day no shame, no disgrace... 
Constant reminders of who controls the human race. 

We wake up every morning and get...

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It’s blasphemy for the half ashy to try and blast on me-n-my family/
Fits about brass class for free from that lasting Gee/
A ghastly last plea is all I’d need for a decree to decrease or...

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Half-breed Hades and his helter-skelter handmaiden 
Abysmally arrogant abase audaciously
Larcenous liaison of Lucifer’s love children
Lashing lepers in a legendary labyrinth
Ostracizing and obliterating others 
Wailing wretchedness while warpainted warmongers
Earmark eerie entities for evil escapades
Endorsing the eager...

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Here is where I belong
Here is beside you I shall live
Here we shall make love
Here were our pact live
Here will be our home of joy

I was taken aback by your courage 
I quiver as you...

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