Tag: spirituality
member name: Umar, Abu Nurain
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November 21, 2007 10:35 AM EST --
When you have nothing
The awakening will be
Nothing is normal.
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December 12, 2007 12:16 PM EST --
This, of course, was inspired by Ed Nudelman's poem. You should also check out Atticus' alphabet poem.
Approach beliefs carefully
Determining . . .
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December 12, 2007 04:25 PM EST --
I do not desire to leave
this house buffeted by wooly plants
bees, spiders and a gang of cats
bottle brush trees and birds of paradise
I do not desire to leave
this place of swirling . . .
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July 27, 2007 06:15 PM EDT --
I know Gatherers prefer shorter poems but this is an experiment that I couldn'tsay no to. I've done something unusual with a standard form just to see how it would work. . . .
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July 18, 2007 03:34 PM EDT --
I read this poem at my father's funeral.
Spindly, black and ashen legs
Sprouted from brown, high-top shoes,
Rose and lost themselves in baggy blue jean shorts
These silent bell clappers . . .
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December 04, 2007 09:06 PM EST --
As I walked home from work today, somewhat intoxicated by poems I've read today, this little ditty came bouncing in so I thought I'd give it to you even before it might have matured. . . .
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August 27, 2007 02:55 PM EDT --
the just released
recently patented
obviously marvelous
revolutionary MRI
(moral resonance imaging machine)
can reveal the pithy core
of every conundrum
the hidden resolution
of every enigma . . .
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November 25, 2007 04:47 PM EST --
Does the carved stone crave
The utter blindness of Love
As my heart's moist clay?
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December 01, 2009 09:00 PM EST --
She talked to Jesus
daily, kneeling in the bread pantry
Curious busboys’ cigarette smoke
followed their long eyes in blue streams
Insinuating her praying . . .
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July 23, 2007 03:37 PM EDT --
they came
moonless three AM
on a glassed and windless sea
a wavy masquerade of glittering stars.
wind dancer was lulled snug between
anchors fore and aft well set
their rodes slackened in the calm. . . .
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September 02, 2007 09:14 PM EDT --
The Glorious Qur’an
When you ask people what is the name of Islam’s holy book the likely answer is the Koran. The transliteration that Muslims’ prefer is Qur’an. But strange as . . .
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December 03, 2009 11:49 PM EST --
She swam alone against the rhythm of the tide
gliding sleek just beneath the sea’s rippled skin .
Spoondrifts, a briny mist of windblown tears,
wove a tapestry from her . . .
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July 24, 2007 09:28 PM EDT --
Since my introduction of Arabic poetry was so well received, I thought I'd take that as an opportunity to introduce another of my favorites, TaHa Muhammad Ali. The poem that I selected, "Where" . . .
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August 03, 2007 11:09 PM EDT --
Billion year old carbon, recently renovated
I dreamt I was African, Blood
I even had an original name
I mean, I was resurrected ancient black gentility
We had mastered the stars before
Abraham was . . .
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August 04, 2007 11:45 PM EDT --
The wind is visible on the sea
As white-capped servants dancing
Waves rising, rumbling mares
Embraced by the sun’s affirming gaze
The one manifests as many, and the many
As one, . . .
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August 28, 2007 12:15 AM EDT --
The sky crackles swollen streams of flames twisting
Tumbling, growling agitated airborne rivers
That scream indignantly
At our impudence, tongues lashing insults at all things
Even remotely combustible . . .
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December 12, 2007 04:01 PM EST --
the sacred dyad
not the monist’ miracle
life’s essentialness
takes two to tangle ova
makes three to bear the future
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July 19, 2007 03:58 PM EDT --
I came here, invited by a woman who once thought she was in love with me. She told me that I would like it and that those who gather here would enjoy my presence.
I’ve read some . . .
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December 18, 2007 12:53 PM EST --
Rain and mist renown
Transitions that fly stateless
To cloud and puddle
Wedded to the gusting wind
Formulating muddy blues
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December 20, 2007 05:39 PM EST --
washing the vibrant headstone
my bathing hands see the skull
beneath the skin, its ridges and knots
roll the cavernous holes' fleshy protuberances
the detachable jawbone, . . .
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