Allah Poetess Poems

have you ever considered 
why we are what we are 

the elements of Stardust 
consider the electron of eons
That light from afar, drifting 

have you...

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Where a newborn star lights 
the vault of heaven under the sky 
sapphire, high! 

You can find it there,
Not the product of a god or...

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The streets are vacant under the mystery rain gently falling as I gaze into the cold blue depth of a fluorescence-lit street

Languishing…

Under blaring lamps, the...

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On horizons rim, color is in-between emblazon upon 

the images stark deep as optic nerves crack 

crooked is the hand, hard n deep red running,...

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Angel wait in detonated forms 
black ragged thorns wrapped 
around stained cruciforms…

Singular saints dark faint 
forms hide in corners not 
washed in candlelight 
as crows...

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God is not a building dedicated to one faith 
that icon of a dead Christ that’s a myth that man makes…

Because men must define the...

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Destroy your Christ 
your god 
your idols fall all apart.

Lay bare your mechanical heart 
rebuild it with gears 
wire electric fire to curve 
your craving...

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Looking out past the cryptic crystal glass 
into the busy rain-slick Street 
I feel the sovereignty of this world 
pass slowly like a shadow beneath...

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All has abandon you…

Destroy your Christ 
your God 
your idols 
Hypocrisy
They will all fall apart!

Your Lords and your Artificial Christ!

Lay bear it’s mechanical heart
Rebuild it...

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The icon fly's high watches all 
in absolute absence disdain. 
In the shadow of the Acadian machinery
Man's industry belches black smoke.
into a polluted bruised sky.
Gears...

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Man will know plenty.
Some will see all...
But never understand any.

Few will touch the hand of the master.
See creations finest chapter...
Know nature as its a reality...

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English translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"

Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan 
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Enough for me...

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Songstress
by Michael R. Burch
 
for Nadia Anjuman
 
Within its starkwhite ribcage, how the heart
must flutter wildly, O, and always sing
against the pressing darkness: all it...

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A traced path you walk on
the hands of God lend in motion a Light
you cross the heart of Nature
overflowed... at a loss!
overlapped are your worlds
ever...

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Faith comforted her soul
During the time of need, she took a knee
Eyes up, head down
Blessings reigned down upon her halo
Ascension is but a prayer away...

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