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The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Part 3, 4 and 5

...Part Three — Zuhrah's Song (1)

O knower of love and mystic's wine,
Sweet mistress of the dance divine!

With harp and lute she weaves her tune,
Her music soars beyond the moon.

A queen whos...

Categories: outrace, cute love,
Form: Masnavi

songbird

...Droplets fall at the existence of my anxiety 
Around every corner I’m drowning 
A new wave crashing over me
I feel the warmth of a gentle hand
“Its ok my little songbird”

I feel the anger taki...

Categories: outrace, anxiety, death, i miss
Form: Free verse

Sad

...The loneliness in my heart is sadness
when darkness drains my soul's dim light away
alone in this realm, feelings of madness
and knowing the hole in my heart will stay
this shadowed embrace I can...

Categories: outrace, lost love, sad,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Trains

...I stand on a railway platform,
As two black trains come rolling in,
Roaring rapidly o’er the plains.
Braking in clouds of steam and smoke
They stop as if for me to choose.

One has come from ou...

Categories: outrace, dark, death, future, travel,
Form: Free verse

Know Your Place

...Were the sky an egg, the sun would be its yolk
Were it an artwork, the painter will be God
If rain was virgin silver escaping from heaven's treasure house
Men would line up in their numbers to be ...

Categories: outrace, confidence,
Form: Blank verse

Achilles and the Tortoise

...In ancient times as told in rhymes 
    there was a hero Greek
Whose mother said, “Before you’re dead 
    you should go out and seek
The glorious fame that goes with your name, 
    my dearest ...

Categories: outrace, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Miles To Walk

...In silence I walk to the edge of light
drawn towards mottled patches of color 
a rainbow fragmented dazzles my sight

How I wish to shed off the cloak of night
not to cling to the comfort of dar...

Categories: outrace, allusion, how i feel,
Form: Villanelle

Summer's Grief

...An Autumn sunrise lights a maple tree
October’s hues are edged with olive green
The vibrant background cheers the season’s glee	
The mountain ridges back the misty scene

Big bears are searching...

Categories: outrace, autumn, grief, summer,
Form: Iambic Pentameter