Manqabat Poems | Examples

Graveyard dirt from asiL Marie Gargano

Enchanted Norse the dark place of dwarves trickery leaving graveyard dark from gargano graves formed in to spear heads making witch ornaments with light bulbs filled with forbidden black sand smuggled from Maui candle wax to see if asiL will appear wearing feathers of ash smudging walls wailing clawing talisman voodoo charms the hidden agenda a family of fathers who fake their deaths to become the devil hiding in basements toying with goodness heaven closed the doors leaving Lisa lingering holding Mary Gargano hand weeping the agony watching evil plotted her song of sadness illuminates her feet covered in graveyard dirt a pet cemetery for humans unleashed the trickery lies in faking of death to impersonate the deceased identity fraud the covering of arson murder of 9 persons the twisted surges of negative energies graveyard dirt used in ritual sacrifices shuttering coven of asiL Marie Gargano wrath unfolds the pagen pilgrimage Norse meeting trolls dwarves meeting at memorial gardens entrance

Today we dance

Today we dance on a mountain 
slide he covers me from the 
beaming sun as tiny raindrops 
splash across our faces colorful 
hues invite my cunning smile to 
relax and enter the unknown 

wandering about newness my 
senses responds to his every 
beckon call needing the comfort 
of my calmness we cater to our 
illnesses our flaws loving every 
drop of laughter we'd bestowed
 
since yesterdays panic attacks 
clinging solely to healing coping 
peace the sweetness of peace 
overlooking all impulsive needs 
to react to the powerful threats 
bullying mental cruelty from the 

sad tyranny boldly tormenting 
portraying mafia notions cleverly 
hidden behind human satisfaction 
a quiet bliss employs us as we master 
just loving us in this moment today 
as we simply dance the day away 

Awareness saves lives 
Anxiety disorder Agraphobia 
Panic Attacks survivors 
my husband and I are truly 
blessed God bless all who served 
and God bless The Federal Bureau 
of Investigations The United States of America
We are still here we are Safe

Disabled and serving our troops and our disabled Veterans

My charities are Disabled 
veterans of America DAV 
PVA paralyzed veterans  
Wounded warriors my 
absolute favorite USO 
sending packages to 
troops I absolutely love 
this also Militar order of 
the purple heart being 
Disabled and giving of 
yourself benefit letters 
are zero many people 
look at you smiling and 
think you are rich sad my 
life is in giving back my 
grandfather served 
my husband served my 
granddaughter just arrived 
in Jordan god bless the 
United States of America

Leaving Tipperary behind

Leaving Tipperary behind 
the rolls of greenery industrial 
findings fields of yellow catering 
to my innermost calm I’d always 
remember my home in Mason 
thee unforgettable rebellion 
costly revolution the insurgents 
blocking broken roads rushing 
over cattle filled lands beholden 
to a quiet comfort so well hidden 
beneath the hillsides where 
Gaelic melodies sang out above 
the melancholy mountain tops 
tis behind me now morning glories 
bloom sparingly across wide open 
plains peeking between the wondering 
shadows of the beaming sunlight

Warm pair of faux muffs

Shopping during the winter trying 
to keep my hands warm by placing 
them in my pockets but how can 
I carry my purse walking down 

lake shore drive the horse carriages 
stroll by the geese taking a dive 
thee old men playing chess 
hot chocolate being served yet 

my hands are frozen that's when 
I noticed a warm pair of faux muffs 
with fleece and down insulation why
perfect I thought the cost were a bit 

pricey but my hands are totally warm
now winter is quite brutal nothing like 
hot chocolate to make you forget about 
just how cold outside it really is today

Kaiser Jeff

"Kaiser Jeff"


i grew up

(well...........
one hopefully 
never grows up)

on hooked 
on phonics 

and being 
dyslexic 

to too


so it seems to me
that Kyser may
come from
German

descent


i don't know
but i know
he writes
decent

poetry

Seventy Qurras

Tragic Bir al-Maunah
These humble men
Worthy of art memorizing
Repeating verses beautifully
Delicate rendering of tenderness.

The deepest poetricalism
Each nuance of meaning
Stand to read iambic verses
Illuminating the darkness.

But Blood-thirsty illetterated
Did not heed.

A flock of flying cadaver eaters
Swirling around, literature dead.

Sayyidina Ali

Mockery law spoofed boycott,
Survived the beast of a desert tooth.
Hunger answered by inedible dinner goth.
Skin and bones as the cloth.
 
Under sieged bloodthirsty pavement,
There are no rules, full bombardment.
Struggle means risking the beguilement.
Why be a slave when life is enfranchisement.

Taking Naps Caused a Mishaps

Taking Naps Caused a Mishaps

What I was told about taking knaps,
They may cause a mental mishaps,
Shortness of mind,
After left behind,
Which will be of time a long lapse.

Jim Horn
.

The Prophet

The Imam of the way of life, calls of prayer,
Traverses from the tower, to reach all ears,
Men in worldly activities, momentary – engrossed,
Set themselves free, to a transitory stop.

In reverence, all and one, orient them to the land,
Where the last prophet of God, discoursed on parched sand,
Adam, Ibrahim, Moses, Jesus all converge in a path,
For the vision of Gabriel, and revelations, no mirth;

Complete surrender visions life, to one illiterate of script,
With the magical touch of an angel, put messengers fear to sleep,
The creator of humankind, bestowed in him thoughts,
The creation of Adam, from a blood clot;

The disgrace shall disappear, by the Allah’s will,
Immerse yourself in good, for kith and kin your feel,
Serve your guests generously, and help the destitute,
For it is the same angel of Moses, who protects the secret truth;

“May peace be upon them”, the world echoes in faith, good,
To transgress humanity, into “Universal Brotherhood”;

Bright Sun Vs Blue Moon

Explore the Messiah 
In yourself
He should be
 the love
 In your heart
That bright sun
 evil should be
That black dot
 in your heart
 Panel of the dark
That blue moon

Time For Peace

chill stop the kill pill
stop the hate
nows time for fate
for heavensake
there's no defeat
with the hate beat
TIME FOR PEACE

Introduction

Devotional praise becomes most compelling when exaltation acquires a human pulse. In a Manqabat, admiration can sound intimate or ceremonial, quiet or resounding, but it must feel directed toward a presence rather than toward an abstract list of virtues. Reading several examples side by side lets you hear how poets negotiate reverence, longing, gratitude, humility, and spiritual confidence without reducing those emotions to a single devotional tone.

As you browse the community poems, notice the range of possible relationships between speaker and praised figure. One poet may write as a private seeker addressing a guide; another may speak with the collective energy of a gathering. Some poems may build through repeated invocations, while others unfold through remembered acts, symbolic images, testimony, or direct appeals. Language can be richly ceremonial or deliberately plain, and either approach can succeed when diction matches the speaker's spiritual position.

A single example may make its choices seem inseparable from the form itself. Reading beyond the first example reveals the difference between convention and interpretation. Compare how different writers create momentum when the central purpose is praise: one may intensify each successive image, another may move from human difficulty toward assurance, and another may let a recurring name or phrase gather emotional force. The collection is therefore not merely a set of models. It is a place to consider how devotion becomes voice, how praise becomes movement, and how a poem designed for attentive listening can also reward close reading on the page.

Reading Guide

Read each Manqabat as both a crafted lyric and an act of devotional address. The important question is not merely whom the poem praises, but how the speaker makes that praise emotionally credible. A poem may rely on direct invocation, narrative reference, accumulated attributes, personal testimony, or language shaped for recitation. As you read the community poems, follow the changing relationship among speaker, praised figure, and implied audience. That relationship often provides the poem's real movement.

• The opening relationship: Notice whether the poem begins with a name, an appeal, an image, a declaration, or a moment of need. The opening establishes the speaker's spiritual distance or nearness. When comparing poems, ask: does the speaker approach with awe, trust, longing, gratitude, or communal confidence?
• The progression of praise: Look for an emotional or conceptual sequence rather than treating every statement as equal. Praise can rise from virtue to vision, from hardship to consolation, or from individual experience to shared affirmation. Ask: what has changed by the final third of the poem?
• Concrete signs of devotion: Identify images, actions, places, gestures, or remembered qualities that give substance to reverence. Specificity prevents elevated language from becoming vague. Ask: which detail makes the praised figure vivid rather than merely idealized?
• Sound made for the voice: Attend to vowels, consonants, cadence, pauses, and phrases that invite emphasis. Even a poem encountered silently may carry the expectation of recitation. Ask: where would a reader naturally slow down, lift the voice, or allow listeners to anticipate the next phrase?
• Repetition with development: A recurring name, title, invocation, or syntactic pattern can deepen devotion, but only if its context evolves. Ask: does each return increase urgency, reassurance, wonder, or communal participation, or does it simply repeat information?
• Personal and collective voice: Pronouns matter. A movement from I to we, or from testimony to public praise, can enlarge the poem's emotional field. Ask: whom does the speaker represent, and how does that choice shape the poem's authority?
• The manner of closure: Some endings resolve in blessing or certainty; others remain in longing, petition, or renewed praise. Ask: does the conclusion merely stop the catalogue, or does it transform what the preceding lines have made the reader feel?

Compare several poets' approaches before deciding what the form can accomplish. The most revealing differences often lie not in subject alone, but in how voice, sound, imagery, and devotional movement make praise feel newly necessary.

Writing Tips

Begin by identifying the devotional relationship that gives the poem urgency. Do not start with ornament, titles, or generalized reverence; start with the reason this speaker must praise this figure now. Perhaps the speaker seeks guidance, remembers help, confronts moral failure, celebrates a virtue, or joins a communal affirmation. That underlying occasion will help every image and repeated phrase feel purposeful rather than ceremonial by default.

• Choose a focused spiritual occasion: A broad intention to express admiration often produces a list. Give the poem a pressure point: uncertainty, gratitude, distance, remembrance, ethical struggle, or a desire for nearness. Praise becomes more affecting when it answers a recognizable human need.
• Establish the speaker's position: Decide whether the voice belongs to a private seeker, grateful witness, student, participant in a gathering, or imagined chorus. Each position permits a different degree of intimacy and authority. Avoid claiming spiritual certainty that the poem has not emotionally earned.
• Build praise from particulars: Instead of relying on repeated superlatives, connect admired qualities to images, actions, consequences, or transformations. Courage might become a source of steadiness in fear; generosity might appear through an opened door or shared light. Particulars make devotion memorable without diminishing reverence.
• Design an arc within the praise: Arrange invocations and attributes so that they accumulate toward discovery. The poem might move from absence to presence, question to trust, solitary voice to communal response, or earthly image to spiritual insight. Without such movement, formally recognizable language can remain emotionally static.
• Use repetition as an instrument, not a label: If a name, title, or refrain returns, alter what surrounds it. The first appearance may summon; the next may testify; the last may bless or surrender. Mechanical recurrence weakens attention, while developing recurrence creates expectation and intensification.
• Let sound serve devotion: Read phrases for weight, breath, and ease of utterance. Dense alliteration can create ceremonial grandeur, while open vowels and balanced clauses can encourage sustained recitation. Avoid forcing rhyme or elevated diction when it distorts syntax, pronunciation, or sincerity.
• Handle inherited vocabulary with care: Devotional terms can carry resonance that ordinary paraphrase cannot replace, but unexplained clusters may distance readers. Use each term because its meaning and sound are necessary, not merely because it signals the genre. Context can often clarify without interrupting the poem.
• Resist interchangeable praise: A common beginner mistake is writing lines that could be addressed to almost any revered figure. Ask what distinguishes this subject in the speaker's understanding. Individuality may emerge through a particular virtue, remembered teaching, emblematic image, or effect upon the speaker's conduct.

During revision, mark every abstraction, repeated claim, and tonal elevation. Replace some abstractions with sensory or active language; test whether each repetition changes the emotional pressure; and shorten passages that explain what the praise has already shown. Then read the entire draft aloud, including pauses. Listen for where breath falters, cadence becomes sing-song, or the ending merely adds another compliment. The final lines should gather the poem's devotion into a changed state-assurance, longing, humility, resolve, or communal affirmation-rather than simply exhaust its vocabulary of praise.

Interesting Facts

• Flexibility can increase difficulty. Because devotional purpose may matter more than one fixed visual template, the poet cannot rely on shape alone to establish identity. Voice, address, and spiritual movement must carry more of the artistic burden.
• Praise can create drama without conventional plot. The drama may occur through intensification: a speaker moves from naming virtues to recognizing personal need, from distance to nearness, or from solitary testimony to collective affirmation.
• The same repetition can produce opposite effects. A recurring invocation may sound triumphant when surrounded by declarative lines, meditative when separated by pauses, or urgent when placed after images of danger or doubt. Context determines its emotional color.
• Performance potential exposes weak language. Phrases that appear elevated on the page may feel cumbersome aloud. Breath, pronunciation, and cadence quickly reveal whether ceremonial diction supports devotion or merely decorates it.
• Specificity strengthens rather than limits reverence. A precise image, remembered teaching, moral quality, or effect on the speaker can make praise more convincing. General magnificence is easily asserted; a transformed life gives the assertion weight.
• Silence can participate in praise. Short lines, stanza breaks, or pauses after a name may create space for contemplation or response. Continuous verbal intensity is not the only way to convey spiritual intensity.
• No isolated poem can display the full range. As you read the community poems, compare how each writer balances intimacy and ceremony, statement and image, private emotion and shared devotion. Variation clarifies which qualities belong to the poet's interpretation rather than to every Manqabat.

Popular Themes

Subject matter and devotional form shape each other: a theme becomes effective not simply because it is sacred, but because it gives praise a direction. The possibilities below are literary pathways, not claims about which themes occur most often in the collection.

• Spiritual longing and nearness: Distance gives direct address emotional tension. Repeated names or appeals can mark the speaker's movement from separation toward felt companionship, even when longing remains unresolved.
• Guidance through uncertainty: A speaker facing doubt, confusion, or moral choice can praise wisdom by showing its practical effect. This theme turns admiration into a search for direction rather than a static catalogue of qualities.
• Courage, justice, and steadfastness: Praised virtues gain force when placed against fear, oppression, temptation, or compromise. Contrast allows the poem to connect exemplary character with the speaker's own ethical responsibilities.
• Gratitude for transformation: Testimony gives devotional praise a narrative basis. The poem can move from an earlier condition to renewed purpose, making the speaker's changed understanding part of the tribute.
• Shared remembrance: A communal voice can honor teachings, virtues, or inherited stories while emphasizing continuity among listeners. Refrain and balanced phrasing can make remembrance feel participatory rather than merely historical.
• Presence within absence: Physical distance, loss, or silence can deepen the sense of spiritual connection. Images of light, doors, pathways, fragrance, or shelter may carry this paradox when developed with restraint.
• Inner struggle and self-correction: Praise can function as a moral mirror. By contemplating the revered figure's qualities, the speaker recognizes personal shortcomings and turns admiration toward resolve, humility, or disciplined change.

As you browse the poems in this collection, compare how different writers transform similar themes through distinct speakers, images, rhythms, and endings. One poem may treat guidance as intimate counsel, another as public testimony, and another as a difficult standard. The theme matters, but its imaginative embodiment determines the experience.

Editorial Insights

The central artistic tension in a Manqabat lies between inherited reverence and fresh perception. Readers expect the praised figure to be approached with honor, yet honor expressed only through familiar declarations can become predictable. A memorable poem does not manufacture novelty by weakening devotion; it discovers the speaker's particular reason for devotion. The praised qualities become visible through an image, crisis, recollection, ethical demand, or change in consciousness. Reverence then feels experienced rather than announced.

Structure is persuasive when it seems generated by that experience. A sequence of invocations may enact growing urgency; a refrain may create communal anticipation; a gradual expansion from private need to collective affirmation may embody spiritual enlargement. None of these devices succeeds merely because it is recognizable. Each return should alter the pressure, and each section should deepen or redirect the relationship between speaker and praised figure. Editors and attentive readers notice when sound, pacing, and devotional purpose reinforce one another: a pause allows awe to register, a cadence supports recitation, and a final image gathers meanings that earlier lines prepared.

Common weaknesses arise when the poem mistakes intensity of claim for intensity of feeling. Unbroken superlatives can flatten emphasis because every line arrives at the same emotional height. Forced rhyme or mechanical patterning can make sacred address sound performative in the wrong sense, drawing attention to effort rather than devotion. Over-explanation presents another risk: after an image has revealed guidance, courage, or generosity, an added explanation may reduce its resonance. At the opposite extreme, undeveloped allusions or specialized terms may presume knowledge without giving readers enough poetic context to feel their significance.

Individuality remains visible through stance, selection, and movement. Two poets may praise the same quality, yet one may speak from gratitude after hardship while another speaks from aspiration, communal memory, or moral self-scrutiny. Their images, degree of directness, treatment of silence, and manner of closure will create different spiritual textures. This is why comparing multiple community poems develops a stronger sense of quality than treating one example as a template. Side-by-side reading reveals whether a choice is conventional, personally necessary, or merely habitual-and shows how shared devotional conventions can support voices that remain unmistakably their own.

Read, Write & Share

Read several community poems before settling on a single impression of the Manqabat. Compare how each poet shapes devotional address, develops praise, uses repetition, and moves toward an ending. A thoughtful comment might identify the image that made reverence tangible, the refrain that gained force, or the turn that changed the speaker's relationship to the praised figure.

Then try composing your own response to the form. Begin from a specific need, memory, virtue, or moment of gratitude, and let the language grow from that occasion. Revise it aloud, consider what your choices contribute to the collection's range, and publish the finished poem on PoetrySoup for other readers and writers to encounter.

Collection Statistics

This collection currently contains 5 poems. Its size offers multiple interpretations to read closely and compare without making any single example carry the full meaning of the form. As you browse, remember that poets may follow familiar devotional conventions, adapt them to a personal voice or language, or challenge expectations through pacing, imagery, address, and closure. Those differences are central to the collection's value.

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