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  • The Poetry thread - Collection of poems
     OP - February 21, 2013, 11:14 PM
    I've a growing interest for poetry and appreciate a good quatrain of any sort. I'd like to widen my repertoire and I'm sure there are plenty of people here that are heavy-weights on this topic.

     So why not have this thread as a big compiler of quatrains or poems, either by known poets, a friend, yourself, whatever. The only condition here is that you think it is good and that you can relate to it in some way.

    So since I'm starting I'll go cheap and run for Omar Khayyam:

    "Did God set grapes a-growing, do you think,
    And at the same time make it sin to drink?
    Give thanks to Him who foreordained it thus--
    Surely He loves to hear the glasses clink!"

    "And do you think that unto such as you;
    A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew:
    God gave the secret, and denied it me?--
    Well, well, what matters it! Believe that, too"


    Disclaimer*If we've had any similar thread recently, you'll have to excuse me and link to it instead.
    Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
  • The Poetry thread - Collection of poems
     Reply #1 - February 22, 2013, 01:18 PM
    upupup! Common guys, give me some hedonistic, blasphemous, dirty old rhymes!
    Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
  • The Poetry thread - Collection of poems
     Reply #2 - August 25, 2013, 05:21 PM
    It's terrible this thread died. Come on people!
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • The Poetry thread - Collection of poems
     Reply #3 - August 25, 2013, 06:51 PM
    I'll give it a shot,here's " God " :

    Where are you ?
    No matter what I do
    I just can't see you
    Anywhere
    They said you were there
    That you care
    I praised you day and night
    I followed your shining light
    But I found myself in total darkness
    I don't feel anything but sadness
    I just can't understand you
    Your words get me confused
    Where is the truth ?
    The old,the new or the last book
    They said you put a veil on my heart
    That you knew from the start
    Why,O Why would you tear us apart ?
    I know even if I behaved well
    If I don't believe in you I'll end up in hell
    You're supposed to love us like a mother loves her child
    What,What is the purpose of life ?
    Worshiping you,doing good and not telling lies
    So we can get a place in heaven in the afterlife
    While our loved ones are being punished in hell on the other side
  • The Poetry thread - Collection of poems
     Reply #4 - August 25, 2013, 07:00 PM
    In the cicada's cry
    No sign can foretell
    How soon it must die
    ~ Bashō
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • The Poetry thread - Collection of poems
     Reply #5 - August 25, 2013, 07:26 PM
    Here's my poem entitled:

    'Where did God go?'

    I am One,
    The Merciful reveals,
    To His Prophet,
    The Final Seal,

    I am One,
    The God declares,
    Spread My Word,
    Here and there,

    Where is he?
    The people ask,
    Maybe he sleeps,
    It's too dark!

    A solitary prayer,
    The Prophet makes,
    For a miracle,
    Silently he waits,

    Oh God above,
    Where were you?
    Torn Prophet prostrates,
    Mind succumbs too,

    Eyes are shut
    Light grows dim.
    God's voice calls,
    He whispers within,

    I am One,
    The Merciful reveals,
    Trickery of mind,
    I lay concealed,

    I am One,
    I am You,
    The Final Seal,
    The God too.

    That one's for you Quod mate!
    No free mixing of the sexes is permitted on these forums or via PM or the various chat groups that are operating.

    Women must write modestly and all men must lower their case.

    http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?425649-Have-some-Hayaa-%28modesty-shame%29-people!
  • The Poetry thread - Collection of poems
     Reply #6 - August 25, 2013, 07:54 PM
     001_wub
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • The Poetry thread - Collection of poems
     Reply #7 - June 22, 2016, 02:34 AM
    When the Vision Dies

    When the Vision dies in the dust of the marketplace,
       When the light is dim,
    When you lift up your eyes and cannot behold his face,
       When your heart is far from him,
    Know this is your War; in this loneliest hour you ride
       Down the roads he knew;
    Though he comes no more at night he will kneel at your side,
       For comfort to dream with you.

    -May Wedderburn Cannan
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • The Poetry thread - Collection of poems
     Reply #8 - June 22, 2016, 02:01 PM
    Fuck the old dead folks, there's some really good poetry starting at the end of page 6 in this blog:

    http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=17256.150
    Quote from: yeezevee on February 11, 2016, 02:05 PM
    how fuck works without shit??


    Let's Play Chess!

    harakaat, friend, RIP
  • The Poetry thread - Collection of poems
     Reply #9 - June 22, 2016, 07:47 PM
    I would rather not fuck anything dead. Thanks for the offer though.
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • The Poetry thread - Collection of poems
     Reply #10 - June 22, 2016, 07:55 PM
     Tongue
    Quote from: yeezevee on February 11, 2016, 02:05 PM
    how fuck works without shit??


    Let's Play Chess!

    harakaat, friend, RIP
  • The Poetry thread - Collection of poems
     Reply #11 - June 22, 2016, 08:38 PM
    Quote from: movingfeet on June 22, 2016, 07:47 PM
    I would rather not fuck anything dead. Thanks for the offer though.


    It does however have the positive sides, that you need not be polite during, and cuddling is not expected afterwards.

    The flies and halitosis detracts a bit though...
     mysmilie_977
  • The Poetry thread - Collection of poems
     Reply #12 - June 22, 2016, 11:24 PM
    Cuddling is preferred over sex, personally speaking.

    The Cry of the Dreamer

    I am tired of planning and toiling
    In the crowded hives of men;
    Heart-weary of building and spoiling,
    And spoiling and building again.
    And I long for the dear old river,
    Where I dreamed my youth away;
    For a dreamer lives forever,
    And a toiler dies in a day.

    I am sick of the showy seeming
    Of a life that is half a lie;
    Of the faces lined with scheming
    In the throng that hurries by.
    From the sleepless thoughts' endeavour,
    I would go where the children play;
    For a dreamer lives forever,
    And a thinker dies in a day.

    I can feel no pride, but pity
    For the burdens the rich endure;
    There is nothing sweet in the city
    But the patient lives of the poor.
    Oh, the little hands too skillful,
    And the child-mind choked with weeds!
    The daughter's heart grown willful,
    And the father's heart that bleeds!

    No, no! from the street's rude bustle,
    From the trophies of mart and stage,
    I would fly to the woods' low rustle
    And the meadows' kindly page.
    Let me dream as of old by the river,
    And be loved for the dream alway;
    For a dreamer lives forever,
    And a toiler dies in a day.

    -John Boyle O'Reilly
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • The Poetry thread - Collection of poems
     Reply #13 - June 23, 2016, 12:31 AM
    Great stuff  Afro
  • The Poetry thread - Collection of poems
     Reply #14 - June 24, 2016, 02:01 AM
    Really is.

    Renunciation

    Naked I saw thee,
    O Beauty of Beauty
    And I blinded my eyes,
    For fear I should fail.

    I heard thy music
    O melody of melody,
    And I closed my ears,
    For fear I should falter.

    I tasted thy mouth,
    O sweetness of sweetness,
    And I hardened my heart,
    For fear of my slaying.

    I blinded my eyes,
    And I closed my ears,
    And I hardened my heart
    And I smothered my desire.

    I turned my back,
    On the vision I had shaped,
    And to this road before me,
    I turned my face.

    I have turned my face,
    To this road before me,
    To the deed that I see,
    And the death I shall die.

    -Patrick Pearse
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • The Poetry thread - Collection of poems
     Reply #15 - June 27, 2016, 04:28 AM
    We Wear The Mask

    We wear the mask that grins and lies,
    It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
    This debt we pay to human guile;
    With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
    And mouth with myriad subtleties.

    Why should the world be over-wise,
    In counting all our tears and sighs?
    Nay, let them only see us, while
           We wear the mask.

    We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
    To thee from tortured souls arise.
    We sing, but oh the clay is vile
    Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
    But let the world dream otherwise,
           We wear the mask!

    -Paul Laurence Dunbar
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
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