Long My lonely soul Poems

Last Night 
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
translation by Michael R. Burch

Last night, your memory stole into my heart
as spring sweeps uninvited through barren gardens
as morning breezes revive dormant deserts
as a patient suddenly feels better for no...

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I wait—

here I wait
for white magic reverie
to embrace me   free me

here I wait—
an hourglass full
of leopard-print thoughts 
sugar-granular-musings spill
the beginning to the end of a story
the potential   the inevitable
life finite ...

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 As My Life Goes On

The past is gaining on me 
There's nowhere else to go
I'm tired of running
Ready or not it's time to face my foes

The ghosts the demons the skeletons the scheming
The lies...

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The Eager Traveler
by Ahmad Faraz
translation by Michael R. Burch

Even in the torture chamber, I was the lucky one;
When each lottery was over, unaccountably I had won.

And even the mightiest rivers found accessible refuge in me;
Though...

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This Poem is from the point of view of a loving wife living with alzheimers. A passionate and pure soul, lost in unfamiliar surroundings during the loneliest time of her life.

A Stranger in Love
 
My...

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This Poem is from the point of view of a loving wife living with alzheimers. A passionate and pure soul, lost in unfamiliar surroundings during the loneliest time of her life.

A Stranger in Love
 
My...

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A Stranger in Love
 
My memories are beyond my grasp. 
I cannot reach what is out so far. 
The pain I feel in my lonely Soul 
Will not heal and will not leave a scar....

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I met the most amazing woman today
So pretty, such a looker all the way
Everything about her had me reacting 
In the most sensual ways
So interesting to talk with 
I hope she wants to stay
Her personality...

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Beams of sultry light.
Reflecting dim flight, 
As fireflies flicker and swarm,
Cascade around my form.
The book reveals its worn pages.
Drifting through the ages.
Memories of bygone times.
The splendor of those rhymes.
Shiny satin ribbons of blue,
Reminding me of...

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The memory of his love echoes in heavens distant sky.
Today is a fractured remembrance of afternoons of forgotten sighs and mindless 
love.
Flawed dreams are bottled up in my heart, and the tears of love will...

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If you told me 6 months ago I'll breath
just fine without you I laugh and proclaim
you kidding

My eyes are as dry as the desert my heart
learnt hardly to partially live without you
Before time passed by...

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AN EMPTY SOUL

Let me take the wine, I thought,
And when I’m drunk, my burden will be gone,
I got drunk, and did what I did,
I lamented it later, when I got sober,
The wine left me miserable,...

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I am absent from heavens table
for I miss my love.
Compassion from an angel
helped me slide down a moonbeam,
to visit your lonely heart.

As you sleep, I am with you my darling,
the warmth of my love
creating a...

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The blue rays of the moon above me
Shower me with hope of the surely stormy sea
And the shine help breaks through the darkness and lets me see
But the sight is nearly more that my heart...

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Yesterday, in the meadows with comrades, dewy cloverleaves I nibbled,
Kneaded with hoofs, as galloped in euphoria hither and thither,
In a free, safe, and worthy world of utopia, my life flew off,
With companions gobbling cloverleaves and...

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Angel of the seas

Dancing in the flame beneath a candles flickered light
Moving between shadows on the floor
My every thought now focused on the beauty I have seen
Standing present on a distant shore

Caressing waves do drench...

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I blame me for all my mistakes
I blame me for all the rejection and heartache
I blame me for all the times I stayed silent 
and should have started and earthquake
with my words
I should have spoken...

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Hark, it is the sea that lures me,
It murmurs slowly, it roars out loud.
It brushes lightly on the shingles,
It washes roughly brackish crags,
And as its moods yields to its whims,
It holds me firmly in its...

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Every day and night all I can
hear are strangers cursing,
cracking jokes, and laughing
at my distorted image.
Words become weaponry,
life never seems to be rid
of discrimation and abuse
that is polluting the very air
I breathe.
Children stare, some even...

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As a balm that caress the skin, returning to the light leads to a peaceful haven
Vindicating the lost soul that was trapped under layers of somber shadows
Tormented by inner voices, sending evil thoughts to the...

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I used to be blind until I met you...
I used to be lost until I loved you...
I used to cry for hours thinking what will happen
I used to sit alone in the dark 
Right there...

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Sun shining, angels draw attention from the softest touch
Seeing the glow from your aura, love at this time, I didn’t have much
You looked at me with an inner love, you touched my lonely soul
It’s no...

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In my town and only 90 feet
from my house run a pair of old tracks, 
railroad tracks older than my house, 
even older than me, and I am 
become old, very, very old, 
like a...

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I was a blind woman walking among the dead, but I travel alone now, a swimmer 
in a black sea, unable to continue another futile struggle at the hands of hope's 
humiliation as I make...

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Searching white streaks in sullen clouds
thousand thoughts clutter an empty mind
cry of seagulls drown in wave of sighs 
torments a lonely soul, in sad eyes

An elegant spring day  lost in vapid heart
embosoms  a...

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