Long Muezzin Poems
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A Trick My Father Learned In PrisonI’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth...
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Categories:
muezzin, ireland, prison, war, , western,
Form:
Prose
Black Iraqi WomanBlack Iraqi Woman
Written by Faleeha Hassan
Translated from the Arabic by William Hutchins
Shortly before my father died, he whispered to me longingly: “Daughter, treasure this, because it authenticates your heritage to our kinsfolk!” When I accepted...
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Categories:
muezzin, me,
Form:
I do not know?
Hazrat Bilal HabshiBilal ibn Rabah (580–640 AD) also known as Bilal ibn Riyah, and ibn Rabah), was one of the most trusted and loyal Sahabah (companions) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was born in Mecca and...
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Categories:
muezzin, africa, destiny, faith, islamic, prayer, slavery, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Akbar, the Great 1542 - 1605Can a man – all alone - foist a god upon his fellows
Even if it’s only himself
And they his subjects
G.. is Akbar!
Does the muezzin from the minaret of Qoutoub-Minar
look up or
down to the illiterate savant...
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Categories:
muezzin, adventure, , atheist,
Form:
Free verse
Mini Earthquake ExperiencesExperienced a third bigger earthquake recently but this poem I wrote for a smaller earthquake years ago)
My first trivial tremor experience had been in Southern Africa
And now this puny earthquake I felt in Tanzania.
I...
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Categories:
muezzin, environment, fear,
Form:
Rhyme
Tears and Tears of HopeWhen tears dry up and laughter is not funny any longer
As duvet feathers grind the weary soul to sunken skin
The parchments dehydrated canvas folds the poet’s path
A cliche strewn among the notion ‘it will make...
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Categories:
muezzin, courage,
Form:
Rhyme
The Al-Andalus Quartet: Part ThreeTHE AL-ANDALUS QUARTET: PART THREE
GRANADA / KHARNATA 1492 AD / 897 AH
I live in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada
with my beautiful sisters Albaicin and Sabikah
The crown that I wear is al-hisn al-hamra
and the...
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Categories:
muezzin, christian, history, islamic,
Form:
Free verse
Fate and FootfallFate’s Footfalls
Fatima climbed up the spiral Minaret’s stairwell a
case of mathematical precision a fountain of courage
One step at a time with geometric accuracy she
counted the odds and the even the skewed surface of life
Prime...
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Categories:
muezzin, faith,
Form:
Free verse
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part TenThe Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Ten
Of late dying yellowing orange rays glint through the turret
Where neither muezzin nor mullah bids the sun to set
Lyceen lassies in threes swear by a ghostly figure
A gaunt...
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Categories:
muezzin, allegory,
Form:
Quatrain
BlasphemyBlasphemy
Blatantly ephemeral or plain outright naughty and lustful
Praying for beauty in the eye of beholding passionate Gods
Angles and half dome shaped wishes curve balls and all
~ Those who write by the sword are judged by...
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Categories:
muezzin, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Lagos, a Confuse CityApril 23rd,
The seductive smoky weed descending from Kabiru swept through my nostril
Cracky creepy shanties sneaking
Pulsating stench sneering from gutters
Churning and choky smoke oozing from the BRT buses
Area boys bullying
Police officers begging for spiritual currency
Perputuality...
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Categories:
muezzin, places,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Constantia- NubileOne thousand and one fluttering butterflies in one centre all
...
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Categories:
muezzin, love,
Form:
Free verse
My TransgressionsThe glowing sun is just about set
And I have a glass of wine in my hand
A candle burns in a robust flame
My beloved snuggles in my embrace,
There’s a prospect of romance in the air--
And Muezzin*...
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Categories:
muezzin, wine,
Form:
Free verse
Windy GaleThe wind is blowing,
Blowing strong and boisterous
It's the wind of change
Tiffany truffles truncation.
Gale winds bowing to the
Prayer called by the Muezzin
The wind gauge is fixated
To the North's polarity.
Algorithms has altered its course.
All runing away...
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Categories:
muezzin, education, fate, leadership, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
BreathHeat waves cavort around your face
transforming it before my eyes
watching in fertile silence...
... through faceless days of scorching torture reeling
into darkness, ballet of countless veils - subtle need, vibrant with passion of
the soil,
and not waiting...
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Categories:
muezzin, love,
Form:
Haiku
CytaThe call of the muezzin, drifting over the wall,
mixes with the odors
of diesel, cooking oil, and humanity,
as I watch a lone kite flying above low houses,
a smear of red across dun colored hovels,
crouched...
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Categories:
muezzin, memory, war,
Form:
Prose Poetry