Pope Leo XIV
...A Cry to the Vicar of Christ
On the eighth of May—
in the year the world was wounded—
white smoke rose,
and the Spirit whispered:
Leo XIV.
Not a crown,
but a cross.
Not glory—
but Gethse...
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Categories:
mosques, abuse, anger, child, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Thank You India
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Thank you for the culture so rich and colourful
The silk woven fabric, tribal clothes, so wonderful
Thank you for the rice, chapati's, and street food spicy hot
It touched me the poverty thou...
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Categories:
mosques, i am,
Form: Rhyme
When Holy Hands Drop Bombs
...What makes it okay to bomb a nation?
Kill so many who don’t have a station?
Destroy a country, cities and families?
Women, babies, children and men—all tragedies—
Who never chose this war… suffer...
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Categories:
mosques, allah, angel, bible, conflict,
Form: Free verse
***** REPUBLIC
...They captured and tortured my humanity.
They believed slavery and colonization would slaughter my Africanness.
Their heirs now ask me to sing praises of assimilation and integration,
To become yet...
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Categories:
mosques, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Lines in the Dust
...In the summer heat of '47's cry,
A line was drawn beneath the sky.
Not ink, but blood, not words, but flame—
Two nations born, but none the same.
Fields once golden, shared with grace,
Now whi...
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Categories:
mosques, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Transylvanian Gothic
...A marvel of architectural grace
Needle-ended arches touching the space
Vaults that look imposed and superimposed
Ribbed ends that kiss the corners, hawk-nosed
Ornate spires like jewel fabrication...
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Categories:
mosques, art, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
The Israel-Gaza War
...On October the 7th, the precarious peace
of the disputed ancient lands began to cease.
The enraged avengers brought the Al-Aqsa flood
that deluged the Re'im music festival with blood.
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Categories:
mosques, military, war,
Form: Free verse
What could happen if Kamala Harris becomes our next USA's President? Q and A Part Two
...Q: What could happen if Kamala Harris becomes our 50th president of the USA?
A: Not in any particular order: Late term abortions at the 9th month of a female's
pregnancy becoming a federal...
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Categories:
mosques, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse
The myth of white privilege and white supremacy part one Q and A
...Q: How did I realize the Woke Marxist anti-God is lying to the American public
all about both white privilege and white supremacy?
A: This commentator and this writer found out courtesy...
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Categories:
mosques, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
And I keep writing
...I feel the weight of tears and keep writing,
An odd word endears, and I keep writing.
In life there’s pain, there too is emptiness,
Yet, as love pours from spheres, I keep writing.
My heart g...
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Categories:
mosques, poets, writing,
Form: Ghazal
Happy Valley
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It was a strange and unexpected experience.
Suddenly, I found myself in a place called Happy Valley. A man was on a park bench gazing upon the trees as if listening to a particular bird call. ...
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Categories:
mosques, humanity, hyperbole, myth, rights,
Form: I do not know?
Mother GAZA
...A percentage of me has to hell been consigned
by the ever raging zionists' war machine.
To each livid soldier, a mandate is assigned
to uproot terror where multitudes are confined.
Torrents of ex...
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Categories:
mosques, war,
Form: Rhyme
A Land Where East Meets West
...Written 19 November 2023
No. 1259 New Poems Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Stand
A Land Where East Meets the West
In a world where...
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Categories:
mosques, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Black October
...The Paragliders like ravenous vultures flew
to southern Israel to predate on soft targets.
Like swarms of bees, they snuck, raped, maimed, shot, burnt and slew.
Terror did every man's fragile cons...
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Categories:
mosques, evil, october, war,
Form: Rhyme
A Land of Poetry It Is
...In my dream, appears a mysterious land from far away...
of the vermilion sky at mesmerizing dawn,
Prayers arising from boats on holy river, Ganges, at Varanasi,
mystical ...
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Categories:
mosques, culture, history,
Form: Free verse
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