Long Medina Poems

See
by Michael R. Burch

See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...

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Poems about Things that Break II
 
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
 
 
 
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
 
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...

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Ali's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali

They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their medal to the river,...

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Please Remember You Had Nothing To Say
                            ...

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I Could Not Do It Before
By Dr.  Tina Medina

I could not do it before
I dare not shut the door
My heart yearned for something more
I loved you to the core
Even though I did not keep...

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Trust, Trust, Trust
By Dr. Tina Medina
Whether it is Benghazi or Kansas City,
You will call and she won’t answer
The pattern and practice is established
You will call and she won’t answer
That is why I do not trust...

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Burn
by Michael R. Burch

for Trump

Sunbathe,
ozone baby,
till your parched skin cracks
in the white-hot flash
of radiation.

Incantation
from your pale parched lips
shall not avail;
you made this hell.
Now burn.

Keywords/Tags: burn, earth, environment, fire, future, nature, natural, planet,  climate, pollution,...

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THE PRESCHOOL RAP

By  Dr. Tina Medina
Copyright Protected

Have you heard about the Preschool Rap?
It’s all about Jesus and him filling in the gap.
Have you heard about the Preschool Rap?
It’s a fun and easy song that...

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Some persons wanted Him to be killed
Others planned to tie Him up or to expel
Plans of polytheists of Ka’bah, He was revealed
He moved to Medina, with a mission to propel

Besiegers followed Him, to track
Tracking led...

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( A Translation of Kazi Nazrul Islam's famous Bengali poem "Samyabadi")

I sing the song of equality,
in which all obstacles and distance are dissolved,
in which the Hindus, the Buddhists, the Muslims 
and the Christians have got...

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THE AL-ANDALUS QUARTET: PART FOUR
ALMERÍA / UMM AL-MARIYA   2007 AD / 1427 AH 

The traveler who journeys to the City of Almería
arrives at a port where the routes of the ferries,
the whitecaps and...

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Summer day; Chittagong, Bangladesh
Though there is no difficulty for the holy Fasting
The sun in its usual service
From our concrete life, global warming kidnaps jovial motion of the wind
Winter is far away from the spring
The hotness...

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Assalamu Alayka by Aliza Kashmala Kiran
My eyes are full of longing
And they have shed tears due to missing Taiba (Medina)
So,I came to visit my Beloved
calm down,my heart,and be gentle!
send salutations upon Muhammad.
My heart is so...

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Assalamu Alayka by Aliza Kashmala Kiran
My eyes are full of longing
And they have shed tears due to missing Taiba (Medina)
So,I came to visit my Beloved
calm down,my heart,and be gentle!
send salutations upon Muhammad.
My heart is so...

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From endemic to pandemic
The media and politicians are taking the mick!
The scary virus gathered then,
Scattered the crowds who now share the fear
And panic!

No one is spared from the crowd now,
If you cough you are in...

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Tomoyuki Yamaa was a Japanese General
Who defeated the British in Malaya and Singapore
Against superior numbers he embarrassed the British Empire
When a larger army under General Arthur Percival surrendered to him

His abilities as a military commander...

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Fluid Drive for Gwen   

Sleep is a many splendored ring
[lostfully] lust in sleep’s  [giant] silent loss. 
rungs of ‘nipples, climbing...[
ladder] in  [Vegas,...chest-quest 
frost, first cropped then tops
stops and sings a song...

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I Came To the Medina
Looking for my Palestina
Baby my Baby 
Where are you?
Still under the rubbles?
Still alive my Diva 
Oh my Devina!

The Highways robbers,
The snitch, the pimps of the Dollar, 
And of the Shekel,
Still abusing...

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It is Okay to Cry
By Dr. Tina Medina
It is okay to cry
It is okay to cry and open up your heart
You simply need to trust now that you and God will never part
It is okay...

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In dreams
i am always lurched by soothing zephyrs
      across the lovely streets of Medina
  
   Searching thy footprints
     in the pious dust
 ...

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There are many wonders that cloud the world
Notable among them are the ultimate sevens 
You and I have heard about
(I believe this century is yet to discover
all the world wonders,
and again is not all of...

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Manifest Destiny
by Michael R. Burch

When you were in my house
you were not free—
in chains bound.

Manifest Destiny?

I was wrong;
my plantation burned to the ground.
I was wrong.
This is my song,
this is my plea:
I was wrong.

When you are...

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Blue sky forms the fortress of their world

I can picture them- the ebony and white
velvet stripes, the arch of necks, the
flint-edged hooves
Beneath the weather-regimented trees
 they gather in the heat- to rest

Heat waves and the...

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Haiku 
…My City Hyderabad


Same stories in books
Same thoughts I read time again
Missing myself

Those old lanes
Those dim lit windows above
My city glows

Rickshaw-puller leads
My thought to its destination
In city lanes

High minarets rise
Call of muazzin rings the city
Some...

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A is for attitude that’s what I got.
N is for nothing that’s what I'm not.
N is for no that’s what I say.
E is for everyone that gets in my way.
T is for trouble that’s where...

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