Categories:
mecca, august, beauty, color, food,
Form: Tanka
Midnight Mecca
Fluorescent lights hummed
a monotone drone,
In the background,
the resonant chimes and dings
of the cash register sing.
A lone moth fluttered
past my empty dome
Light, purposeless,
similar to myself.
Glassy eyes wandered back,
staring deep into the infinite
assembly line I could not help
but lose myself in.
Neon nectars beckoned me
like a sugary siren,
I was a
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Categories:
mecca, addiction, childhood, drug, humor,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
mecca, islamic, prayer, religion, religious,
Form: Haiku
Proud Shoes of Muslims
Proud shoes of Muslims from a hajj!
Their owners 'Alhaji' emerge!
Sandals which kissed Jerusalem:
A true Christian's, grandly solemn!
A devout man's made pilgrrimage
A boost gives his Holy image:
It's a picture hard to damage,
Even if he were a savage...
For the chance to access Heaven
One's pilgrimage up to seven.
Christians meet Pharisees' Leaven
And for themselves judge The Raven...
Still, the sad
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Categories:
mecca, god, image, places, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Mecca
My soul is derelict, forsaken by the universe
Even the sun burns and the moon frowns
Probably my birth is a misfortune
Uneven days have stolen my joy
My lover looks upon me coyly
Unbearable Pain that tears flee
Unknown the origin of this pain
Trekking the desserts of existence
Darkness clouds my being
Lost in bearings, I gaze to
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Categories:
mecca, allah, anger, anxiety, blessing,
Form: Free verse
The 734 That Died At Mecca
It is disgusting that 734 people died at Mecca,
Last Thursday, when so many lives were lost,
Needlessly, for want of crowd control officials,
To restrain the 1.4 million who’s emotions cost.
Religion is never an objective thing,
It's extremely emotional, out with rational thought;
And the ritual that the pilgrims were approaching,
Was, in my opinion, religion’s most
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Categories:
mecca, anger, death, god, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Mecca To a Farmer's Market
A clatter of human hooves
drums on through an after- dawn marketplace…
the wide tunnel of mouths
reel from the splintered chorus
of jangled tunes bargaining and rattling
papaya, arabica and sushi roll orders: a fiesta
of succulent aroma whisks mid-air,
talkative faces sampling potent crops
on weaved baskets , hanging neatly
before slurpy hands condemn
them to boiling pots: the errant
noise
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Categories:
mecca, places, space,
Form: Light Verse
Haj: Africa To Mecca
Bridled pilgrim on tributary road
Sanctified route that Imams trode
Hoping cares and sorrows to unload
In Mecca's blessed, sanctified abode
Prayerful disciple dutifully abnegating world in part
Humbly following the scantily-provisioned cart
In contrition, taking alms from each, beneficent heart
Diligently brushing aside each mental block, earthen
rampart
Suffering the reproach of strangers with grace
Shouldering the stigma attached to foreign race
Showering kindness
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Categories:
mecca, dedication
Form: Rhyme
Mecca
There is this yearning
deep inside my soul
that is satisfied only when
I am alone atop a mountain,
sitting quietly by a stream
or laying in a cozy meadow
splashed with sunshine
My heart is soothed there
as if I were truly home
truly at peace
truly one with Mother Earth
this Mecca is my driving force
as I follow the hummingbirds song
deeper into the wilderness
where
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Categories:
mecca, introspection, nature
Form: Free verse