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Wallah Poems - Poems about Wallah

Ask me about me

...Ask me about me and I will tell you about me, ask me about me and I will satisfy your curiosity. You walk around the entire town looking for where destiny is bound, digging up the dirt and lifting up...

Categories: wallah, books, change, child abuse,
Form: Narrative

Gracias Gringos

...Folks must be happy in Guatemala

   With tax money frittered by Kamala

      Will she visit the border
 
         To 'stablish peace and order

             Or is she just Joe's otiose* wal...

Categories: wallah, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Living the Dream

...Some say that our thoughts create our reality;
moods, colors, stars, birds, maps....
everything changing to our minds' will.
You don't need a magical wand or psychic powers
they say; just a genui...

Categories: wallah, art, beautiful, beauty, how
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

I Like Muslims

...I like Muslims,
Particularly Yemenis
And Pakistanis (in Yemen)—
With whom, as a university don,
I happened to live for six years. 

Arabic vowels render 
A Yemeni voice gruff.
So even a greet...

Categories: wallah, friendship, , cute,
Form: Lyric

At Tea Time

...For the daughter I love and miss.

There’s a change that’s like a season that I’ve noticed in the air
I couldn’t tell what niggled me but now I have to share,
I feel it in the morning wh...

Categories: wallah, absence, angst, daughter, father,
Form: Ballad

Nafarmaan Nakhalf Baitay Ka Noha-- Elegy of a Disobedient and Evil Son

...BeAdab gustakh jab aulad ho jaye
Chain sukh maa'n baap ka barbaad ho jaye

Cheen le budbakht jo walid ka sarmaya
Jeete jee kion baap na barbad ho jae

Aasteen ka saamp that beta nhi the woh
Ma...

Categories: wallah, child, emotions, evil, family,
Form: Nazm

Summer

...summer dawn –
the path of cowries
beyond the sea 


summer dream
counting the butterflies
in neighbor’s garden


piercing the 			
breeze, my chute lifts –
summer beach	


summer twilight . . .
the be...

Categories: wallah, summer,
Form: Haiku

Spring

...distant hill
a river carrying
the spring
 
waters of spring
father backstrokes
into healthiness
 
spring drizzle
the bipinnate leaves
fold into shyness
 
spring day
spots of rosiness
in the bud
 
spr...

Categories: wallah, spring,
Form: Haiku

Mannaburgers and Quail a La King

...God gave Moses and his brother Aaron this celestial command:
"I have selected thee to lead My people to The Promised Land!
You'll wander in the wilderness for forty years in the scorchin' sand!
I'...

Categories: wallah, funny, god, water,
Form: Rhyme

A Poet's Day

...When it rains, it shines in these radiant beaming eyes of mine.
When it's cold, it's warm in these promised lands I've come afar to farm.
When you're there, I'm right here and there's nothing for u...

Categories: wallah, adventure, allegory, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Personification

Ta Da

...Every one of you must listen carefully to me.
Time told a story that we all began to mimic.
Each day became the same, losing our Ta Da.
Rightfully we all went separate ways and far.
Not one, but ...

Categories: wallah, allegory, devotion, faith, happiness,
Form: Acrostic