Short Euphrates Poems

fleeing from slaughter
as opposing forces
clash for supremacy
innocent blood flows 
on the Euphrates River


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The Tigris and Euphrates,
they flow like time, 
murmuring and sighing
and running their individual courses,
cradling Mesopotamia,
their land, 
in life, 
and flooding the plain in alluvial soil,
for cities to put down deep roots,
the wonder of humanity....

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Twinkle, twinkle, rogue star.  Wander, wander, from afar. 
Child of the Tigris and Euphrates, one of seven sisters called Pleiades.  
Twinkle, twinkle, rogue star.  Wander, wander, there you are.  
Rogue star, fast and nimble, rogue star, make humans tremble....

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Come forth darling
Take your shoes off 
Allow me to rub your feet 
Letting me pray 
Pray for us
I'll place your bare feet in the Nile 
Dipping them in the Euphrates River 
Come let's embracing together
 in front of heaven's gate
 I reiterate 
Come come forth my darling
Walking on Holy Grounds
Barefoot in all...

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I've never kissed a toad,
or lived a fairytale,
or seen a spouting whale.
I'm silent as a road,
or where Euphrates flowed
when Moses made the veil.

I've borne the greatest minds
the Father ever made;
each one with care was laid
where common folks could find
each ancient treasure's kind.
Some left, but others stayed.

A tall library shelf,
I'm trapped within myself....

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Your eyebrows are rainbows, your voice smells like rain
Your lips mightier than the red army,they relieve my pain
I didn't tell you, you are my breath, because of my shyness
If I'm not worthy forgive me you are the goddess of kindness
Your arms are the holy land,your hug is my Eutopia
Your eyes Tigris and Euphrates, your nose Mesopotamia
Your mouth full of shiny pearls, just if I could feel you near...

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Zebra,Donkey,Giraffe,Hippo,Elephant
Mango,Hibiscus,Neem,Baobab
Zambezi,Nile,Euphrates,Kafue
Victoria,Ontario,Tanganyika,Bangweulu
Everest,Kilimanjaro,Nanga Parbat
Red Sea,Mediterranen Sea
Pembrokeshire coast park
Victoria Falls
Lochinvar hot springs

chipepo lwele
PS;the reminder of the natural world around us.
     the poem about animals, plants,rivers,lakes
     ,mountains,seas ,waterfalls and hot spring....

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The Turbulent Euphrates
Russell Abdur Rahman

The halitosis of Monstrum Luscus Dajjal
Is getting intensed in the air
Turbulent Euphrates!
The floor is swaping the ceiling!
The fairness of contrast,
The moon appeals more than the Sun
Is it an omen? Love in an advent of cattle-ravaged change
Murderer knows no cause of murder, sterile faculty of ration
The earth gets tumulted by the barbarian civilization...

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The Turbulent Euphrates
Russell Abdur Rahman

The halitosis of Monstrum Luscus Dajjal
Is getting intensed in the air
Turbulent Euphrates!
The floor is swaping the ceiling!
The fairness of contrast,
The moon appeals more than the Sun
Is it an omen? Love in an advent of cattle-ravaged change
Murderer knows no cause of murder, sterile faculty of ration
The earth gets tumulted by the barbarian civilization...

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Constantinople haunts my nights
In dreams both sad and stirring
Of wooden ships
Under star filled skies
Searching for fortunes
Hidden by those long gone

As we sail away 
Down the dark Euphrates
Shadowy eyes 
Filled with lost dreams 
Can be seen in the sadness
Of the forgotten 
Waiting on the shrouded banks
Forever

Looking back
Toward the city lights
Reaching up 
To the night sky
Constantinople waits
And waits
And waits
For me
And for you
To come...

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Constantinople haunts my nights
In dreams both sad and stirring
Of wooden ships
Under star filled skies
Searching for fortunes
Hidden by those long gone

As we sail away 
Down the dark Euphrates
Shadowy eyes 
Filled with lost dreams 
Can be seen in the sadness
Of the forgotten 
Waiting on the shrouded banks
Forever

Looking back
Toward the city lights
Reaching up 
To the night sky
Constantinople waits
And waits
And waits
For me
And for you
To come...

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Constantinople haunts my nights
In dreams both sad and stirring
Of wooden ships
Under star filled skies
Searching for fortunes
Hidden by souls long gone

As we sail away 
Down the dark Euphrates
Shadowy eyes 
Filled with lost dreams 
Can be seen in the sadness
Of the forgotten 
Waiting on the shrouded banks
Forever

Looking back
Toward the city lights
Reaching up 
To the night sky
Constantinople waits
And waits
And waits
For me
And for you
To come...

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WAS IT A DREAM
A day so bright and golden
A country whose sun is proven
Where other races come to refuge
And not be dumped as the refuse
I saw a day where we’ll have leaders
Not tugged oriented as rulers
A day I saw the canker-worm is no more
Where there was no gulf war
Where the nation of saint are adore
When we fought as it was in troy
Alone we are the glory without convoy
On Euphrates flows the twelfth aisle
I was pure and graced in the seventh tide
BUT ALL WAS A DREAM...

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