Long Effendi Poems

This is for you, Mystic Rose,
The closest cyber encounter family tree, my spree
Harry Horsman, Sara K, summer's gone, let's haiku and play.
Achoo contest, butterflies, Parise Pariku, and the awesomeness of Michael J. 
Andrea Dietrich, Debbie...

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101  POETS

I want to thank 101 poets, when words have no limit.
All 101 spots full of flowing imagery and spirit.
Nathan Dilts my #1~writing for him was so much fun.
Nikko's, words are like a shot...

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Rongtern Mansion
By M. Taha Effendi

(Verse Libre)

The front door of the mansion mysteriously creaks open,

I freeze.

Hoping to hear a welcoming voice,
But all I hear is the wailing of the cold wind,
The pitter-patter of rain outside,
And the...

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"At Times I Wonder"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Nazam)

At times I wonder what life would have been worth
Spent cloaked in soft shades of your sable tresses
If ill-fated darkness that shrouds my  wrecked hearth
Was slayed by vigorous...

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"Lucifer's Laments"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Dramatic Monologue)

Do You not see, Almighty God,
How Your order man defied?
So base, so vile, so gravely flawed,
Yet so consumed by pride!

He broke all sacred codes though warned,
He dared to pay no...

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"Without You"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Ballad)

Every day without her I spend crying,
praying there's always a smile on her face.
i'm tired of hiding from her that i'm lying,
i'm tired of hiding that i'm losing my grace.

She called...

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"Estranged Love"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Rhyme)

Countless days came and passed,
each day in misery spent.
every day I live as my last,
since the day you are absent.

Each day I hope of your return,
I find my hopes desert me.
To...

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Before you read the following poem, please read the first part of this poem that I have posted on this website separately.




"Deliverance"
by M. Taha Effendi

(Didactic)

Oh mortal! Do not be sad,
I know it hurts to wait.
Have...

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With the advent of those with devious intent
To serve own greed, a heaven torn apart
A shift into darkness, perpetual, distend
A vendetta, to burn through generations, sparked

Once bound by the seal of love, of empathy
A Cultivation...

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"Ensnare My Heart"

By M. Taha Effendi

(Ballad)

O beautiful maiden of my captive heart,
Are you not the lone bard's pompous muse?
With allure that inspired the divine art,
Heavens' hand made you with such delicate use,

What sweet circumstance upon...

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In wait of deliverance, life lingers ahead
Oblivious of what might lay instead
Impaled, in pain, in agonizing strain
Bereft of peace, life persists to drain

With desires unquenched, a life yet to be cherished
On the threshold of sanity,...

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"Victus"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Didactic)

Amidst the gloom of night's dark shroud,
lurks Death in far corners of the shade.
To vanquish my fears to God I bowed,
And death shall find me... unafraid.

Amidst this vale of tears and pain,
my...

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Unrequited Soliloquies Of The Heart 
Estranged

By M. Taha Effendi

(Sonnet)

As I walk along the twilit avenue,
A forlorn heart bids the day adieu,
The rubicund sun withdraws its weary 
gaze,
Surrenders its quest of endless days,
Vagrant clouds drift to...

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"Lone Survivor"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Sonnet)

He wandered through each ravaged street,
death lurked wherever strayed his feet,
His ears resounded with frantic, dying calls,
of those whose blood stained the city's walls,
With tears he gazed at the darkened sky,
cursed...

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The tormented cries of a heart confined
Barely ever met a gratifying end
The meager state is but a trick of your mind
For the course of destiny lies in your own hand

Forsaken love, a conceivable excuse
For a...

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