Long Faithfuls Poems

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 beginnings…

For a devout Catholic lady, it all begun with the purchase...

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i want to freeze this moment
to paste all this feelings
into one moment in time
these smells
theses thoughts
these sounds around me

the tuk tuk i am in reaches town
and from the mosque nearby
the mwadhini calls out loud
"Allah Akbar"
the...

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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 name...

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There gathered some undaunted faithfuls
Yelling with desperacy without moderacy
Screaming to be heard by the Son of Man
Not satisfied until they hear from the 
The Son of Mary the wife of a Joseph 

Hundreds of unwavering...

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It seems as if it were like yesterday
when the Latino community made their dwelling
where they used to meet and celebrate on Sundays
at St Paul’s parish, the second home for them.
Their gift of relationships and act...

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Mountains reach up through clouds
Half way between Earth and heaven
To grow slower over vast tracks of time  
              
Rocks seek snowflakes...

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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 making premium of God's providence
That their...

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Weather the storm.....

The teardrops on my pillow,
Seem to glare against the window,
As I think about the times I could have done you wrong...
If faithfuls just a notion,
That runs rampid like the ocean,
Then I should have...

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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 the dazzling Cyclop-eye...

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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-bulls marshaled out in the cold winced.
At the...

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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...

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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
Ramadhan!

In it,
The doors to 
destructability
Remains shut for all 
its days
Ramadhan!

The...

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The silky waves of mist caress
the temple, lost in times of dust,
and all the memories of past
within, in silent tenderness.

It's been a long time since in-here
the last steps left as gift their sound,
and on the...

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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 faithfuls gather their gods aren’t idle
Rather would they...

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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 THE...

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Cajoled for a perfect kill
carnations were ready to jump for creating
a schism between future and past.
Keeping an eye on moon, a bald maiden
blew herself up in howling night
to slay a group of faithfuls.

Irresolvable it seems,...

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