The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Part 21, 22 and 23
...Part Twenty-One — Saeed's Supplication to God
One day with flute and mournful song,
Saeed began a prayer so long.
His patience broke, he lost his hold,
His heart grew weary, tired, and cold.
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Categories:
thinned, cute love,
Form: Masnavi
The Journey Within
... “To behold God’s face nothing need be done ~
He dwells in our heart; God and we are one”
~ quote by poet
beyond labels and forms, to find out who we are
in as the screen...
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Categories:
thinned, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
After Clouds Depart
...She thinned to vapour, blue as longing's edge,
while we searched skywards, calling her lost name.
Wind replied in whispers no one could catch–
just hollow notes strung on a frayed thread.
Now dus...
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Categories:
thinned, imagination, independence day, inspiration,
Form: Verse
YOU
...I see you full of hope,so life filled,
But I , brocken,yet to be healed,
I see you, healthy,body built
But I , drying,body thinned,
I see you happy filled with laughter,
But I ,sad all but a dis...
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Categories:
thinned, anxiety, freedom, life,
Form: Rhyme
Empty out the mind
...“Come undone to know God and we are one ~
We are as God’s child, His prodigal son”
~ quote by poet
We reincarnated a thousand times,
but in each life role our soul her...
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Categories:
thinned, god, silence, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Intrusive Thoughts
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Written: June 07, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
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The Phantom Choir
In the quiescence of last Sunday,
Prophecy heralded the hour p...
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Categories:
thinned, bereavement, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Without Mirrors
...He forgot
how his jaw
used to stretch
in loud laughter.
No mirrors
to watch his days—
just windows,
and distant eyes.
His beard trimmed
by finger’s feel,
a chunk missed
Here and there....
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Categories:
thinned, for him, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
Autumn and Its Passing - Edited
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"Lingering leaves of gold frolic in the wind"
and though their twirling is such a beautiful sight,
the limbs of the trees look as if they've been thinned,
so those trees seem desolate in the twi...
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Categories:
thinned, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Zen mode
...thinned out ego remains as an interface
to enact on earth as it is in heaven
innocence carries not the cross of disgrace
ascending easily through chakras seven
can we ask the sun of debts of lo...
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Categories:
thinned, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
--procession--
...we dressed them in thinned clouds—
no lace,
no hymns,
just wind.
innocence was light enough
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Categories:
thinned, dark, death, funeral, goodbye,
Form: Other
Quill, Quahog?
...O emptiness of space, thy harpsichords. Whole?
Panels out of place, looking-glasses smashed.
Bitter winds, thy frost. Sickness, dole, O soul.
Chaffy grain beneath the tired thresher slashed.
Turm...
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Categories:
thinned, creation,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
The Father of My Unborn Child
...Anger turned to joy,
With the news one day,
A little life was on the way.
Excitement in his eyes, a spark,
A future dream, a bright new start.
He told his mother, and brothers too,
A father’s...
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Categories:
thinned, anger, character, conflict, courage,
Form: Bio
Toil Turmoil
...Thought, with intelligence? When?
How about the proof?
Setting fire to where and when?
Devil, art aloof?
Fire inspiration, thy pun.
What to do for fun?
Good sense, laddie, and reason!
Fly no...
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Categories:
thinned, sweet love,
Form: Rhyme
Ode to my brown bear
...You were there
before memory.
Before voices had names,
before light had meaning
you were there.
Brown as warm bread,
soft as a breath held in sleep,
you waited.
And I held you.
You wer...
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Categories:
thinned, 10th grade, emotions, growth,
Form: Ode
It’s Good To Be
...Its good to be done
With it
We sail
In west
In less, form
And more loss
Of warmth
Cinders escape
Hatch
Before the irish write
Let the british wine
Remove the winds
Replace the legs
Perha...
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Categories:
thinned, america, boat, england,
Form: Free verse
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