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Muezzin Poems - Poems about Muezzin

The Muezzin

...Before light’s encroaching
Beams, across wavelengths
Of glints, in between yawning
Protocols of waking,
The cocks strike a redundant
Note.
Choked by their own sensitive
Yodelling spree, muted ...
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Categories: muezzin, prayer, religion, religious,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberYou Were There

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I like to think that you were there
when muezzin trills called to prayer.
Calm stillness drifted in au clair,
my thoughts were pining on the air.

I like to think that you were there
as paste...
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Categories: muezzin, death, dream, longing, loss,
Form: Monorhyme



Premium MemberWindy Gale

...The wind is blowing,
Blowing strong and boisterous 
It's the wind of change
Tiffany truffles truncation.

Gale winds bowing to the
Prayer called by the Muezzin
The wind gauge is fixated
To th...
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Categories: muezzin, education, fate, leadership, visionary,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Al-Andalus Quartet: Part Three

...THE AL-ANDALUS QUARTET: PART THREE
GRANADA / KHARNATA 1492 AD / 897 AH

I live in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada
with my beautiful sisters Albaicin and Sabikah
The crown that I wear is al-hi...
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Categories: muezzin, christian, history, islamic,
Form: Free verse

Mini Earthquake Experiences

...Experienced a third bigger earthquake recently but this poem I wrote for a smaller earthquake years ago)

My first trivial tremor experience had been in Southern Africa
And now this puny earthquak...
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Categories: muezzin, environment, fear,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberScoffing Derision

...When the wars of all nations fall quiet upon shells and shallow graves

A mockingbird rises from ashes and spreads its wings into nuclear skies

No muezzin left to spread angelic messages but a n...
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Categories: muezzin, dark, war,
Form: Free verse

Hazrat Bilal Habshi

...Bilal ibn Rabah (580–640 AD) also known as Bilal ibn Riyah, and ibn Rabah), was one of the most trusted and loyal Sahabah (companions) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was born in Mecca and is con...
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Categories: muezzin, africa, destiny, faith, islamic,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBlasphemy

...Blasphemy

Blatantly ephemeral or plain outright naughty and lustful
Praying for beauty in the eye of beholding passionate Gods
Angles and half dome shaped wishes curve balls and all
~ Those who...
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Categories: muezzin, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTears and Tears of Hope

...When tears dry up and laughter is not funny any longer
As duvet feathers grind the weary soul to sunken skin
The parchments dehydrated canvas folds the poet’s path
A cliche strewn among the notion...
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Categories: muezzin, courage,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFate and Footfall

...Fate’s Footfalls

Fatima climbed up the spiral Minaret’s stairwell a
	case of mathematical precision a fountain of courage

One step at a time with geometric accuracy she 
	counted the odds and...
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Categories: muezzin, faith,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberConstantia- Nubile

...One thousand and one fluttering butterflies in one centre all
                                    
                                    flap their wings sharing ambrosia for my soul mate and I

My...
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Categories: muezzin, love,
Form: Free verse

A Trick My Father Learned In Prison

...I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be told, he despise...
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Categories: muezzin, ireland, prison, war, ,
Form: Prose

Cyta

...The call of the muezzin, drifting over the wall,
mixes with the odors 
of diesel, cooking oil, and humanity,
as I watch a lone kite flying above low houses, 
a smear of red across dun colored hov...
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Categories: muezzin, memory, war,
Form: Prose Poetry

My Transgressions

...The glowing sun is just about set
And I have a glass of wine in my hand
A candle burns in a robust flame
My beloved snuggles in my embrace,
There’s a prospect of romance in the air--
And Mue...
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Categories: muezzin, wine,
Form: Free verse

Black Iraqi Woman

...Black Iraqi Woman
Written by Faleeha Hassan
Translated from the Arabic by William Hutchins
Shortly before my father died, he whispered to me longingly: “Daughter, treasure this, because it authent...
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Categories: muezzin, me,
Form: I do not know?

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