The loss of humanity
12 October 2025
Withered lands
circling pools of blue
They breach through
humans’ hue
repeating blasts overheard
of acts untoward
We forsook
innocence repealed
Laughter pealed
Death revealed
the quaking knees they concealed
dire stances they took
Withered sigh
my bosom empty
as they die
smothered cry
The loss of humanity
burnt under their sky
Reading of the poem:
Hamza Namira - Ay Kalam | حمزة نمرة - أي كلام
Female wisdom slows down the fight
27 October 2024
They hoarded from river to sea
homes not for them so tirelessly
as broken throngs just had to flee
usurped lands cannot be taken
As they looked for love and respect
the tides turned on debased regret
although they were told not to fret
their losing path carved itself dark
Trump to trump with a winning card
wrong male policies to discard
intruders are leveled down hard
female wisdom slows down the fight
Written in the context of Ronovan writes Ovi Poetry challenge using the word “respect” as the inspiration. For more poems and rules, follow this link :
Reading of the poem:
Dana Salah - Ya Tal3een (full version) يا طالعين
The ghastly death ring
12 April 2024
Writing date
The seventh of tenth
Shift of three
Pervades me
A rubber stamp to relate
Twenty twenty-three
Prince of peace
death right precluded
Blood released
heartbeat ceased
Predictive programming sprees
from pores exuded
Sea to shore
the victims galore
bombs that slayed
infants strayed
Awareness to cut through minds
as enemy grinds
Look afar
through the eye that smarts
flattened stones
amidst groans
pictures that imprint on hearts
ugly that they are
Bloody spill
cloaks the sunken eyes
World’s attire
of the liar
no longer a white-clad skill
twixt the dying sighs
Angels sing
voices join clamours
of thousand
small hammers
of ribs protruding to end
the ghastly death ring
Reading of the poem:
Rajieen | راجعين (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
Rewritten by spars
13 January 2024
Wars are waged
against the other
Relentless
terror raged
Helpless victims not fleeing:
the child and mother
The world skids
unparalleled turns
Spirit takes
what it yearns
for downtrodden mind’s dismay
stays being of clay
I feel night
mining my insides
like acid
eating skin
It feels like giant within
with murderous strides
The blood pours
over my feelings
It oozes
through my pores
my body a map of scars
rewritten by spars
Reading of the poem:
I Didnt Know – Karima Nayt
All blood same red lace 15 October 2023
Harbinger of erased nation A death toll on both sides leads nowhere as the fear rides to uneven poll the clock strikes unequal death chimes we surmount the war crimes our memory a closed tap bodies our minds wrap Live cocoons shelter vivid thoughts unwilling uncaring we see not what then transpired as thousands expired Fed through spoons weather-beaten words Flimsy talks forceful walks to the other side of hope a yearning to cope Warning call lost time to recall regret stitched intimate within layers of the brain lesson to retain The legs pace unknown surfaces riddled lanes absorb pains of humanity’s disgrace all blood same red lace Reading of the poem:
Yael Deckelbaum - Prayer Of The Mothers
To touch, not divide 15 December 2022
Crescent moon Glistens on treetops Blowing winds Change the skies Cloudy landscapes meet our eyes Decanting pearl drops Humans rise Multiple tasks shake Their dark ribs As they stir Notions of a foregone Time While the war bells chime The ground spills Red waters that slide They know not Colours’ calls Crimson landscapes cut our falls To touch, not divide Reading of the poem:
Hans Zimmer – Time
They flaunted new bodies they’d seized 25 December 2021
They took the rules as a set trend they bent on knee in submission They made of the quest a mission each to each hero and new friend Their souls to heavens would ascend one by one their bodies released as their breath in their chests decreased Consciousness moved to other spheres releasing behind all the fears they flaunted new bodies they’d seized Reading of the poem:
ERA - Ameno (Official Music Video)
Written in the context of Ronovanwrites Decima challenge. In a Decima, there are 10 lines of poetry that rhyme and there must be 8 syllables per line. There is a Set Rhyming Pattern we must stick to: ABBAACCDDC or ABBA/ACCDDC. For this prompt No 89, we must have “friend” in the A rhyme line For more tips and other contributions please follow this link here https://ronovanwrites.com/2021/12/22/ronovan-writes-decima-poetry-challenge-prompt-no-89-friend-in-the-a-rhyme-line/
Rewinding the clocks
2 December 2016
Tick me strikes
Clock me from afar
Withered hands
Grasping Time
Gone though we have come this far
Ending in blind war
You paint me
In feathers and tar
The joke spent
The dream dreamt
I have no reason to sleep
Eyes express dissent
Blazing rays
Ignite fading scar
Is this all
That we are
The eyelids scorching now weep
For more we were meant
You raised me
In black chains kingdom
The mind stilled
Overkilled
Paper joys and lies distilled
Like venom of dark
Hidden spark
A love shining bright
Heart’s delight
Out of sight
Ringing through my brittle night
Cradle for the right
Hark now hear
The oncoming rust
Red powder
Speaks louder
Voices nearer to the crust
The rumble now clear
Nurtured talks
My flailing embers
Bringing flame
To my name
Sacrifice the worthy’s fame
Rewinding the clocks
Reading of the poem:
War – Poets of the Fall
Dreaming Wide Awake – Poets of the Fall
Locking up the Sun – Poets of the Fall
Choice Millionaire – Poets of the Fall
Cradled in Love – Poets of the Fall
Carnival of Rust – Poets of the Fall
Rebirth – Poets of the Fall
Withered Time
22 July 2016
Hushed signals
Calling in morse code
Eyes stutter
Melodies
The bark falling off the trees
The cuts spill lather
Clouds gather
Raging thunderbolts
Pointing claws
Clenching jaws
The war is in the dark place
Between Time and Space
Bubbles lift
To lands of seizure
Electric
Eclectic
People of undercurrent
Tastes of the oceans
Kicking shins
Involuntary
Mistakes made
In maps read
The undead rebooting dead
Unearthed Hastiness
Three times three
Violins that cry
Twice the light
Covered sight
Vigil kept in the painting
Of the Queen mother
Nursey rhyme
Reinventing fields
Withered Time
Pantomime
Waking through desert landscapes
Planet of the Apes
Reading of the poem:
Signals – Dreamstate Logic & Protocat
Ad Astra (To the Stars) – Dreamstate Logic
Unknown Future – Dreamstate Logic
Within Grace
4 March 2016
Bound by oath
Made in code and blood
Knights will join
Tooth and loin
Though it is the mighty Queen
Who leads King’s battle
Salt for Toth
Sugar for the bees
I pray strong
Though on knees
My sight restored to Unseen
A snake with rattle
Heart in peace
Discovering wills
I float through
Noah’s ark
It rekindles in me spark
Of destiny’s spear
We lead crowd
Bonded in fever
They shout loud
Voices hoarse
Blind eyes decoding the Morse
As I type haggard
We strip folds
From unseeing eyes
Waking up
Seeing lies
They discover land of Oz
Broken the wizard
The King walks
His pace a slow move
While the Queen
Unhindered
Flies high through the battle cries
Sacrifice her groove
Openings
Entrenched in our souls
They beckon
To the grapes
High above the wilting shapes
Of trees in the wind
Holocaust
Burning apple trees
Violins
Aching wood
Empty stomachs yearning food
Beating above dins
Dance to beat
Live die and repeat
Past blunders
Wane thunders
Warning chimes as thief plunders
Plucking from bosoms
Hearts turn cold
This was not the fate
We wrote once
With bright pens
The worthy cooped up in dens
Waiting for lions
Blue craters
They await the sane
Lost haters
Smothered dust
Dissolves into fading rust
Of forgotten steel
She will come
From bowels of Earth
She ignites
My hands gifts
Blue heart throbbing as she lifts
My frame into skies
I am two
Between me and you
I hover
Within Grace
She turns towards me her face
Sunken eyes teardrops
Reading of the poem:
Window to your soul – Delerium
Dark Star – Delerium
Koran – Delerium
Silence – Delerium
Fallen – Delerium
Flatlands – Delerium
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