Madah Poems | Examples

List of Member Poems

PEACE AND LOVE

Man, a Rasta 
Screw them Babylon
No more bondage 
I and I guidance
Zion my portion 
Selassie my saint
Roots my culture
One love my anthem
JAH RASTAFARI

   Surviving_Pawn

Beyond the Veil of Emotion

Always lingering just beyond the realm of hurt
Emerging against whispers of the heart
Appearing against its hesitant pleas for caution
Showing up when the heart advices not to
Flourishing amidst uncharted moments
Thriving amidst an unexplored territory
Running away from problems unencountered
Unwanted eyes wide open
Witnessing the undesired scenes unfold
Crafting smiles amidst sorrows grasps
Severing ties that never truly existed
Enduring sleepless nights, questioning why
Does it trouble you to surpass the rest?
Elevate, unleash your untamed spirit, don your smile,
For it’s the essence of being human
Making occasional missteps in choices
An open invitation to amend and rectify,
And restore harmony once more

I'M An African Woman

I'm a woman 
                   Yes, an African woman 
                   Who knows her wants 
                   And respects her deeds 

                   I'm taught to respect 
                   But I also deserve respect 
                   To maintain my essence 
                   And be the best me 

                   I'm a reason 
                   For multiplication 
                   No woman 
                   No generation 
          
                  I make meals
                 To make it real 
                  If they think it's a deal
                  Then I do have a choice 

                  I'm born and will reborn 
                  It's a beautiful thing 
                  It's not  just a story
                  Its my glory 
           
                 Call me a woman 
                 An adorable woman
                An African adorable woman 
                A super African adorable woman!


#I'mawoman
#Anadorablewoman
#happyinternationalwomen'sday


Premium Member Madah: Highest Be Praised

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Madah: Highest Be Praised

Yes, praise be to the Highest,
Yes, praise be to the Highest above them all,
Praise be true to the king that rule,
Praise be the realm his people's home,
Praise be the milestone a king and his throne,
Yes, praise be to the Highest,
Yes, praise be to the Highest above them all,
Praise be an empire, built by love's desire,
Praise be passing looks of history books,
Praise be an emperor empire's virtuous measurer,
Yes, praise be to the Highest,
Yes, praise be to the Highest above them all,
Praise be to our Lord of the Most High!

2022 August 26

Premium Member Madah--I Do Sing Praises To My God--

Sing Lord My God I WILL RAISE MY HANDS IN PRAISE;
Chant I SHALL CRY OUT YOUR HOLY NAME 
Praise I AM
LOVE YOU ABBA  (Father)
Glory, holy  PRAISE YOU ADONAI
Mercies  EL ELYON The God most high
Sing--I WILL RAISE MY HANDS TO THE SKIES
HALLELUJAH
Shout--The Lord of peace the Lord is here(there)
Reach out--My God, My God be everywhere
Praises--Yahweh-Tsidkenu, the Lord our righteousness 
HE WILL PROVIDE
HALLELUJAH

3/28/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©

To Remember

I'm writing this down because I don't know how to express my feelings or emotions
I feel so much that I get lost in emotional adventures of anguish, sometimes of ones with angels
I am writing this down not to move on because the feelings and emotions remain in a place beyond time, accessible through the heart, but to remember without pain
To remember the words I didn't say and the words I  should have swallowed
To remember the things I didn't do and the things I should have 
To remember without pain -- to forgive myself 
To understand the situation you and I were in
To grow and grasp the journey so far





11/23/18


Premium Member My Devoted Patron

No one ever had a more devoted super patron.
He marveled at every painting and poem I thought up.
He cheered at each of my gaudy crazy color choices,
He toasted all my thoughts with a golden glass tribute cup.

He wanted to buy all, the first time I had a white arts and crafts carnival tent.
I was against this of course, wanting a chance to sell to others, to share my soul.
This life is not yours, he said, you are more sensitive, artistic, heaven-sent.
But I wanted to sell to excited children, and their mothers, that was my goal.

My marvelous patron talked me into selling online, and that worked out for a bit.
I was gleeful and happy and awhirl with joy with each sale, so tried and true.
But when I went to visit him, and saw each painting in his home, I threw a hissy fit.
I wanted to sell to others, I said, I didn’t want all of them to be sold to you.

Now when I sell a painting or a poem, I run home all aquiver, excitedly glad.
Sales always chase away any insane feelings of disappointment or unexpected gloom.
I have a patron who believes in me, a man who is honest, and never a cad.
Best of all, to deliver it, all I have to do is walk to my own living room.

Honestly True

(Fact)

I  am not a Queen but we do shared the same birthday.
She's the greatest role model ever existed to me
She's is the person I would look up to more than my parents.
She would be the type of person that would teach females how to act like a lady not a wild lady
Great upbringing, great posture, and how to keep to many flies away from trying to take advantage of your precious parts.
I admire her with all my might I watched stories and news
Of her with great respect.
Her grandkids are so precious I've watched them grow.
They mother would be so proud to see how well they grow
Beautiful princess I cried like a child when she died, no one can't match up
To a one of a kind. Princess Diana R.I.P.
The Queen will always be the one and only.
Nobody will never be above her don't even try to be.for she the one and only much respect.

You Are Love of My Heart

You are just you are
The love of my heart.
It's just me,I just love
Now with just that.

Can not live in,
Away from you,
Now also a moment.
It is from you only from you,
Is my world.

I do not have any more anymore
Than you to today.
You are only one to be
More special than me.

You are just you are
The love of my heart.
It's just me,I just love you
Now with just that.

Hood Rat

Zero chills 
Poping pills 
Month 9 panctured belly
Baby never made it
Mama still shaking booty
Thursday reaggae 
Still lit she feel
Someone call Dr dolittle
I got a litre of baby bloody juice
Lit mamma,s litter 
Littered by the lit mama
Little she knows 
Pappy needs answers

The child of destiny
Denied to rise 
God,s messager 
Decided to pull a driveby
Cold dead flashed in the sewer
Into the sewer it goes
All its dreams down the sewer
Mama saw it as **** 

Just another cycle
Menstrual juice she saw
Her body her rules 
Her booty they drool
Not ready 
Deffinately bouncing back
Under the mat 
The dirt goes
Ostrichy in the sand
Heads down
Mama is ahead 
Perfectionist in heads 
Taking it hard 
Lit she says 
Only remember 
He laughs last
 laughs loudest 

The service provider 
Comes pretty soon
Earthly bridal you are
Chosen by earthlings 
Down you will go 
Consequencies must face
Trust me Papa will get you
Good he will get you

Kata Tajam

kata-kata yang tajam 
bisa menjadi pedang penikam
untuk menghancurkan keburukan
dan menggiring pada kebaikan

Jogjakarta, 30 April 2016

The Sheikh

The flying hills and its tinted gold
Its pyramids and the blinking moulds
Beautiful the night, a city behold
New dawn it was at Bur Dubai

The city that never boasts of mountain
Infertile the land unfriendly the grains
Until comes a dreamer called Maktoum
Muhammed, the son to raise the tune
 
At the sea end stands nations inertia
In father’s desires, Maktoum built to sky
Descendants of warriors, to sea he claimed
To build the Palms, the earth, for world to hail

Up Another Level

I got slower in my travels
The sadder the sights that meet my eyes
A reflection on the train windows
Cities in decay, streets overcome with tears
It cant move fast enough for me
I feel the dirt of the city cling to my face

Just sinking in the quicksand
Hold up my hand for one last chance to be found
up another level, holding out for an angel
It could be you, although I'd take a chance on just about anyone

I have flown through clouds of ash
I have tasted the grass and its not sweeter
On this side or the other
Gotta reach up another level
Dont want to be touched by the devil
Please dont stray from me my guardian angel

Hanging from a thread
Spun by a spider since long dead
Its up another level waiting to be released
And this waiting game will finally cease

Tak Lekang Oleh Waktu

Perihal kebaikan yang datang
Kebaikan itu pantas menyentuh aku
Sentuhan yang membuat aku terhutang
Sentuhan itu juga mengusik kalbu

Barangkali ia kebaikan yang sedikit
Namun besar nilainya di sisi aku
Resah, gusar, pedih dan sakit
Lantas aku tenang, hanya kerna kebaikan yang sedikit itu

Maka masakan mampu aku lupa
Pada kebaikan yang sifatnya sebegitu
Tak terbeli walau digadai dunia seisinya
Tak tertebus meski sampai hujung waktu

Kerana itu aku menjual janji
Selalu aku berdoa semoga sentiasa dipelihara Ilahi
Juga segala kudrat yang ada bila dipinta akan aku beri
Moga dengannya terbayar kebaikan yang pernah aku rasai

Masih panas rasanya di dalam dada
Walau hari-hari itu sudah lama berlalu
Kesan tangan peribadi yang baik dan mulia
Kekal ia dalam ingatan tak lekang oleh waktu.

Ek Shair

AAYE UMMAT MUSLIMA TERE LIYE IK LAMHA-E- FIKRIYA
 BHOLEEN HAM IKHTILAFAT KO ,QURBANI KI BANE MESAL


 POETRY BY :RABIA IQBAL RABI

Introduction

Praise creates an immediate artistic tension: the speaker wants to elevate a person, presence, or ideal without allowing admiration to flatten into flattery. That tension makes Madahs especially rewarding to read side by side. One poet may sound ceremonial and public, another intimate and grateful; one may build grandeur through accumulating images, while another may make a restrained gesture carry the poem's full emotional weight. The pleasure lies not only in discovering what is praised, but in hearing how each speaker establishes that praise as credible.

As you browse the community poems, notice the range of relationships that can shape the voice. The addressee may be approached with reverence, affection, loyalty, awe, or even thoughtful reservation. Some writers may emphasize qualities and achievements; others may reveal the subject indirectly through scenes, symbols, memories, or effects on a wider community. Recital energy can also vary. A poem may unfold as a dignified address, a musical celebration, a personal testimony, or a carefully controlled meditation.

Reading beyond the first example reveals how much creative possibility exists within a praise-centered tradition. Compare where poets begin, how they intensify admiration, and what they reserve for the ending. Consider whether praise expands outward toward shared values or narrows toward one vivid detail. Different interpretations also show that a Madah's success depends less on the quantity of compliments than on the imaginative and emotional architecture supporting them. The collection becomes a workshop in discernment: readers can observe how image, sound, pacing, and voice turn an act of praise into a poem worth remembering.

Reading Guide

Read a Madah by listening for the argument beneath its admiration. Even when the poem is celebratory, it is making choices about what deserves honor, which qualities should be remembered, and how the audience should regard the praised subject. As you read the community poems, follow the development of that case rather than treating each complimentary phrase as an isolated ornament. The most revealing comparisons often concern not how intensely poets praise, but how they create authority, movement, and emotional credibility.

  • Identify the speaking relationship. Notice whether the voice sounds like a loyal follower, grateful beneficiary, intimate witness, public celebrant, or reflective observer. That position governs how believable the praise feels. Ask: what does this speaker seem to know, owe, remember, or hope?
  • Look for evidence within the praise. Concrete actions, consequences, scenes, and remembered gestures can make admiration feel earned. Abstract excellence alone may remain distant. When comparing poems, ask: which details allow me to understand why this subject matters?
  • Track the poem's expansion. A Madah can move from one quality to many, from personal gratitude to public significance, or from earthly detail toward symbolic stature. This progression gives praise momentum. Ask: does each passage enlarge or deepen the central perception?
  • Listen for recital energy. Repetition, balanced phrasing, sonic echoes, and deliberate pauses can make the voice feel addressed to listeners rather than merely printed for silent reading. Read passages aloud and ask: where does the language invite emphasis, response, or ceremonial weight?
  • Examine image scale. Vast images can confer grandeur, while a modest image can humanize an elevated subject. Neither scale is automatically stronger. Ask: do the poem's comparisons illuminate a specific quality, or do they merely announce magnificence?
  • Notice emotional control. Sustained praise can become monotonous if every line remains at maximum intensity. Changes in pace, volume, or intimacy create contour. Ask: where does the poem pause, soften, intensify, or allow gratitude to become more complex?
  • Study the final gesture. An ending may bless, summarize, dedicate, invite communal recognition, or leave one resonant image. Its task is to complete the movement of praise without simply repeating the opening. Ask: what new understanding does the conclusion make possible?

Compare several poets' approaches before deciding what the form can accomplish. Differences in voice, evidence, image, and performance will sharpen your sense of when praise becomes persuasive poetry.

Writing Tips

Begin a Madah by asking what your praise can reveal, not merely whom you intend to praise. The strongest material contains a discoverable relationship between subject, speaker, and audience. In a workshop draft, look for the source of the admiration: a remembered act, a sustaining influence, a public achievement, a moral quality, or a presence whose value can be made visible. That source gives the poem something to develop beyond a sequence of compliments.

  • Choose a subject with specific grounds for praise. Write down several actions, effects, habits, images, or memories associated with the subject. If your notes contain only adjectives such as noble, great, or glorious, the poem may lack material. Specificity allows elevation to grow from observation.
  • Decide who is being addressed. Speaking directly to the praised figure creates immediacy; speaking about that figure to a community can create public ceremony. A poem may shift between these positions, but the shift should have purpose. Clarify whether your speaker seeks to thank, honor, persuade, commemorate, or bear witness.
  • Build an arc rather than a list. Arrange qualities so that praise develops. You might move from a small gesture to its wider consequences, from personal experience to collective meaning, or from visible deeds to an underlying virtue. Escalation is effective only when each stage adds understanding.
  • Let images perform the praise. Instead of repeatedly asserting that the subject is generous, show generosity as shelter, open hands, restored ground, or another image rooted in the poem's world. Avoid interchangeable symbols of grandeur unless you transform them through precise context.
  • Use sound as public energy. Repeated consonants, vowel patterns, parallel syntax, and strategic recurrence can give the poem ceremonial force when spoken. Do not impose sound effects simply to display technique. Test whether they strengthen dignity, warmth, urgency, or memorability.
  • Control the emotional temperature. Beginning at the highest possible pitch leaves little room for growth. Reserve some intensity for later. A quiet recollection or measured statement can make a subsequent declaration more powerful, just as silence in a recital can prepare listeners for emphasis.
  • Avoid automatic magnificence. Beginners sometimes rely on superlatives, inflated comparisons, or repeated titles because praise seems to demand grandeur. Such language can distance readers when unsupported. Give the poem credible particulars, and let honor arise from what those particulars mean.
  • Allow individuality within the tribute. The praised subject matters, but so does the speaker's distinctive perception. Include the angle another admirer might overlook: a private consequence, an unexpected metaphor, a contradiction held in balance, or a value revealed through one telling moment.

During revision, read the entire draft aloud to an imagined gathering. Mark where your breath falters, where repeated syntax becomes mechanical, and where an image sounds impressive but means little. Cut redundant praise, vary the pacing, and strengthen the transition into the ending. Finally, ask a reader to identify what the subject is praised for and where the poem made that value tangible. If the response depends only on your declarations, return to scene, image, sound, and development.

Interesting Facts

  • Praise is often harder to sustain than conflict. Conflict naturally produces change, while admiration can remain static. A successful Madah creates movement by deepening the grounds for praise, enlarging its consequences, or changing the relationship between speaker and subject.
  • Restraint can sound more honorable than exaggeration. A single exact detail may establish worth more convincingly than several extravagant claims. When browsing the poems in this collection, compare how understatement and elevation produce different kinds of dignity.
  • The speaker is revealed by what is admired. A poem that praises courage, generosity, wisdom, loyalty, or creative achievement also discloses the speaker's values. Thus, even a highly public address can contain an indirect portrait of the person offering praise.
  • Repetition can serve more than emphasis. Recurring words or syntactic patterns may resemble ceremonial return, gather emotional force, or invite an audience to anticipate a phrase. The same device can feel devotional, triumphant, intimate, or insistent depending on pacing and context.
  • Performance changes the scale of the poem. Spoken aloud, an address that seems private on the page may acquire communal significance. Pauses, vocal stress, and tonal shifts help listeners distinguish sincere testimony from decorative acclaim.
  • Complexity does not cancel praise. A poet may acknowledge distance, hardship, mortality, or imperfection while preserving the poem's honoring purpose. Carefully handled contrast can make admiration more credible because it shows that the speaker's regard has been examined rather than assumed.
  • Different poems can praise the same quality through opposite methods. One writer may use abundant imagery and rising intensity; another may depend on brevity and calm precision. Reading several community interpretations reveals identity through artistic effect, not through one compulsory tone.

Popular Themes

Subject matter shapes the kind of praise a Madah can sustain. A public figure may invite ceremonial scale, while a teacher or loved one may call for intimate testimony. The possibilities below are literary directions rather than measured popularity rankings; each succeeds only when the poem gives admiration a specific voice, context, and progression.

  • Leadership and public service. These subjects suit an address concerned with influence, responsibility, and collective consequence. The poem becomes stronger when it connects status to identifiable deeds rather than treating rank itself as proof of merit.
  • Patronage and generosity. Support can be portrayed through what it enables: safety, learning, art, opportunity, or communal well-being. This theme gives praise a clear cause-and-effect structure, allowing gratitude to expand beyond the individual speaker.
  • Teachers, mentors, and guides. A Madah can show how another person changed the speaker's understanding or direction. Images of illumination, navigation, cultivation, or craft work well when they are grounded in a particular lesson or transformation.
  • Moral and spiritual exemplars. Patience, courage, humility, mercy, and devotion provide substantial grounds for elevated praise. The challenge is to embody the virtue through action or presence rather than merely naming it.
  • Family and beloved figures. Intimate praise can replace public grandeur with gratitude, memory, and close observation. A familiar gesture, phrase, or sacrifice may carry ceremonial weight when the poem reveals its lasting effect.
  • Place and community. A city, homeland, institution, or shared cultural space can be honored through sensory detail and collective memory. This approach allows the voice to move between private belonging and public affirmation.
  • Artistic or intellectual achievement. Praising a maker, thinker, performer, or body of work invites the poem to echo the qualities it admires. Language honoring musical skill might become sonically rich; praise of clarity or wisdom might adopt measured precision.
  • Tested or qualified admiration. Praise can gain depth when set against adversity, absence, doubt, or human limitation. Contrast prevents the tribute from becoming effortless and shows why the speaker's esteem endures.

As you read the community poems, compare how different writers transform related subjects through scale, imagery, and speaking relationship. Similar themes can produce sharply different poems when each poet discovers a distinct reason and manner for honoring the subject.

Editorial Insights

The central artistic tension of a Madah lies between elevation and credibility. Praise naturally reaches upward, seeking language equal to admiration, yet elevated language can become hollow when it outruns perception. A technically recognizable tribute may identify a worthy subject and maintain a praising tone, but a memorable poem shows why the praise is necessary. It offers evidence, imaginative discovery, or emotional consequence. Readers should feel that the speaker has arrived at honor through attention rather than selected honor as a decorative posture.

Structure becomes meaningful when it embodies the growth of esteem. A progression from deed to character, from private benefit to public significance, or from mortal detail to enduring value can make each passage feel inevitable. Repetition may gather ceremonial authority; catalogues may suggest abundance; a return to an opening image may reveal that the speaker now understands it differently. These strategies matter because they organize admiration into an experience. Without development, even musical and polished language can sound like a row of interchangeable compliments.

Editors and attentive readers notice when subject and craft exert pressure on each other. Praise of a restrained person may be most persuasive in controlled language. Praise of a dynamic performer may require rhythmic vitality, while praise rooted in memory may depend on pauses, sensory particulars, and shifts between past and present. Weak drafts often use predictable grandeur regardless of subject. Other common problems include forced rhyme or diction, mechanical recurrence, images chosen for prestige rather than accuracy, and explanations that tell readers how moved they should feel. Some poems stop after naming virtues and never develop their human cost, social effect, or personal meaning.

Individuality remains visible through selection. Two poets may honor generosity, yet one notices the doors it opened while another remembers the giver's refusal to seek recognition. Such differences determine metaphor, pace, tone, and closure. A strong ending does not simply apply one final superlative; it clarifies what the act of praise has changed or preserved. Comparing multiple community poems is therefore essential. It trains readers to distinguish volume from intensity, ornament from insight, and ceremonial language from genuine verbal ceremony. It also shows writers that fidelity to a praise-centered tradition need not erase personal perception: shared conventions become most alive when each poet discovers an unborrowed reason to speak.

Read, Write & Share

Read several community poems before settling on a single impression of what a Madah can do. Compare the speakers' relationships to their subjects, the evidence supporting their praise, the scale of their imagery, and the way each ending completes the tribute. A thoughtful comment might identify a particularly convincing detail, a memorable sound pattern, or a moment when admiration deepens.

Then try composing your own poem of praise. Choose a subject whose value you can make tangible, revise the language aloud, and publish the result on PoetrySoup. Your interpretation can join an ongoing conversation about how honor, gratitude, ceremony, and individual perception meet in poetic form.

Collection Statistics

This collection currently contains 8 poems, offering multiple interpretations for readers to examine side by side. The selection provides opportunities to compare voice, imagery, emotional development, recital energy, and the grounds on which praise is built. As you browse, remember that individual poets may follow established conventions closely, adapt them to a different relationship or subject, or challenge expectations while preserving the poem's honoring purpose.

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