Poems

Here You'll Find Some of Mohamed's Poetry

    
Eloquence with Every Syllable
 
     Thunderclaps of applause
     Twinkling, flurried light flashes

     And a fairy tale voice,

     So melodious

     Gave wings to words

     That soared from the podium

     Painting pictures of

     Peace,

     Oneness,

     Equality,

     Abundance,

     Justice.

 

     Enlightened, encouraged, impassioned

     I left the crowd for home,

     Passing in the night

     A mother giving her child an ice cream cone

     The past nurturing the future

     In a private eloquence of smiles and giggles

     That left the eloquence of the public podium

     Hollow

 

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                         Lonely

  

                    Lonely held me last night

                    Chapped lips, no face

                    Cold breast, no place

                    We shared a pillow

 

 

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                             Falling Asleep

 

                 Scenes splash my mind's caves

                 Quiet moonlit rolling waves

 

                 Faces, feelings, promises, past

                 Bitter twilights of lovers last

 

                 Barren blue beach, not a sight

                 The landscape in my head this night

 

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                        Dysfunction

 

          Laughing, sneering, savage thrusts

             Bolting, stinging, slaying trusts

             Tumbling, rolling, colliding flesh

             Slamming, veering, metal mesh

 

             Jagged, charred lovers' brows

             Panting, stabbing, so aroused

             Trampling, punching, no relent

             Grinding, writhing, malcontent

 

             Daring, punished, lost, unfound

             Prayerless heathen, sins abound

             Shackled wretch, walled from love

             War kills peace, bloody dove

 

             Beaten more, made now right

             Can not love, drinking spite

             Thorns, thistles, briar and barb

             Clothed and jailed in clergy garb

 

             He's Cain, no Abel

             So useless spent

             Help him, Mommie

             He can't repent

 

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                              One Hundred Veils

 

             One Hundred Veils

             Hang unfurled between Your throne and me

             I push against hosts of angels

             Unable to approach even the first;

             Seventy-five prismatic cloaks of light,

             Twenty-five moats of sonic abstraction

             Cover the Face

             That grayed Moses' beard

 

             I beg Your embrace

             But You forsake me

             I court You across continents,

             Breech a thousand mosque gates

             And chase stretching minarets

             Those bejeweled, long earthbound fingers

             Clutching for the Creator, as I

             Across the idle sands

 

             I hear the minaret's distant chants now

             Croaking words that bound and prescribe,

             My scriptural chastity belt;

             Why do You imprison me?

             Sitting jealous, elusive, aloof

             Twinkling across the gaping chasm

             You never nurse me

             Or show me Your Face

 

             I asked for You once, sobbing

             In a scribbled tear-soaked note

             Impaled on a whistling arrow

             That I shot from my climaxing lover's

             Arching, bowed back

             But You never answered

             And left me gazing in gray rain

             Standing on the swallowing dark side of

             One Hundred Veils

 

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                       The Cold

 

            She clasps our village

                A brutish bear flashing steel claws

                You sneering vandal!

                Hiding behind your numbing black cloak

                Robbing our comforts

                And leaving us purple

                In the blue concrete night
 
 

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                  Late Summer's Night

 

      A ruffled satin cloak draws across the sky

      Announcing another night immersed in self

      Under star splashed drowning heavens

      Still, complacent, expectant, morose

         then focus fades, and secretly,

 

        ...listen to the distant wailing trains,

       lamenting, bellowing, echoing pains...

     ...listen to the swishing soft swirling breeze,

      whispering through shivering crisp virgin leaves...

       ...listen to the cricket's stubborn serenade,

       courting Autumn's crimson colonnade...

 

                                 ...go away!

 

       Oh, damned sullen masturbating heart

       Find solace in the summer fan's electric hum

       And let my spirit sleep

 
 

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