Long Finalist Poems

PERSERVERANCE BREEDS SUCCESS

Jss One was an insult, I cried
Like time should hit full stop,
My breakfast was sweet without
Salt,
My parents tasted like this evil
Citrus,
I continued to hide like Air Force
Was only for my seniors.

Jss Two arrived...

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I watched the water shuttering on the table.
I was stunned as this seemed out off sorts:
an earthquake exactly at twelve, high noon
on 12-12-2012 . This is the day, that the
Priapus Award finalist had to have
there...

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I was only nine years old when I first met you,
with brown hair and big brown eyes.
I was the smallest and quietest girl in your class
Sitting in the front row, always staring at the black...

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My Video Song " SUMMER DAYS ARE COMING' can be heard on my Music Channel URL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cafa5Sc6dPo


The Song has received Semi Finalist Award declared 
on 5th Sept. 2013. Although it's lyrics has missed the Ist
prize by...

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"If I feel physically,
            as if the top of my head been taken off, 
         ...

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"Poetry is a way of 
               taking life by the throat."
          ...

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“…when power narrows the areas of man’s 
     concern, poetry reminds him of the richness 
        and diversity of his existence…”
   ...

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THE WONDER OF MY LIFE

Verse 1
‘The Great Wall of China’s’ amazing.
‘The Northern Lights’, such a view!
‘The Pyramids’ are breathtaking,
but none of them compare to you.

‘Sugarloaf Mountains’s’ stupendous.
‘The Leaning Tower’s’ untrue.
‘The Aztec Temple’s’ outstanding,
but none of...

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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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I was in an essay contest
It started in January
When we wrote our rough drafts.
Then the teacher paired us
Up for peer editing.
I was paired with
A boy with sapphire eyes.
When he read my essay, I had
Shaking hands.
He...

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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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At... locations position in time scale in order pure
Naught... Quantity of no importance complete failure this I am sure
For you ride into the prisons gold
Bent on passages that's already been told
We are slightly above Angel's...

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Dearest,


There would be no nightfalls 
thereunto your eyes but partly goosebumps
nor would be nightscapes along your brows 
even an inch above their  shorelines

where darkness heaves 
no. When shadows dance in tip-toed pirouette to the...

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Grayscale had been hearing about the cardinal nest queen
Since the day she was two, and now she was sweetly nineteen.
She is given warm cat nip, and gifted whatever she has ever dreamed.
Her relatives never see...

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“The finest poetry
     is the most feigning.”
           —William Shakespeare


Smelling scent soothe my soul
Sits in sleek oven
Simmering Jack-O-Lantern
Smile so nicely
Saliva pours for
Sweet...

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Dar harbour full of teeming life
A mass of colourful ships and boats
Radiant do your waters gleam

Each wave gently lapping the shore
Sails fluttering in the breeze

Slowly yet violently the yachts jib
As they sail and tack against...

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Joan Didion was an accomplished American writer
Wrote “The Year of Magical Thinking”, portrays a true fighter
Her first book -“Run, River”, her last -“Let me tell you what I mean"
Fiction, non-fiction, plays, screenplays, awards ~ much...

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Me   a poem about my Illness

I always needed someone’s help…
My mom was the one who I confided in and knew I could trust.
I never could do the ‘solo’ thang but that is changing.
I...

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after all,
sycamores shed leaves
in the fall,
standing tall
revealing its bare branches
awaiting first snow

gathering
large sycamore seeds
in autumn
is a pain
burying the grass alive
in prickly texture

frightening
stark ghost-like branches
sycamores
playing dead
all through the dreary winter
returning next spring

fully leaved
in big hand-like fronds
bringing...

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The song contests 

I came across an apple tree it looked like 
a child’s idea of this type of tree, big red
apples and a blue sky; when I realized I do not like
big red apples...

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