Poetry

Those that with beautiful hearts cross the kingdom of life Who entertain the holy essences of goodness and grace, They cross the Tartarian blizzards and dangerous wilds, They are brave pilgrims that finally kiss the shrine of death. And when…

My faith was once like a granite fortress, That ruthless armies could not destroy. Faith, the raiser out of the depths of misery and despair, My chorus of loud cheerleaders, My hopes of the fresh dawn of eternal life, Now…

Your beauty, gift and masterwork of divinity, Has kept me in vassalage all my life, Yet I have built a Taj Mahal in verse, To fortify your memory for all posterity. Like the immortal fragrance of long faded roses, Generation…

The poet is the healer, delight, and fragrance of posterity, By a quill and many parchments, the conquest of humanity. He fears not the fierce militances of time, Being a favoured symbol of the divine. And to the fire and…

There is a love diviner than life, That the throbbing heart cannot fathom, Like a lovely glimpse of a distant future, Removing the curtains and veils of eternal life. The mortal heart is raised to more sublime latitude, Like the…

We must gain the thrones of love and virtue, And remove the stains of ego and dark vices from our personalities, Like a gardener who cuts weeds from a lilac garden. Only then will we be among God's chosen, beloved,…

Forgive us, our embryo wisdoms, cannot comprehend your mysteries or your ways, So guide us to the avenues of your blessed, And never to question your decrees. Never to wage warfare against your ordinance, And to foster these pearls of…

My life was a profound hell, beyond expression, A chapter with narratives of utter misery and suffering. You became the light and fragrance of my life, And obliterated the darkest eclipses of my existence. Your affections intoxicated me like a…

Futile are all the religions and creeds, Like the faded roses in winter, To those who are the summits of virtues, And keep the flame of love burning in their hearts.

A woman might appear to be beautiful, A visage fair as the full moon, well sculpted in body, Yet her heart can contain fires and eclipses. If a man weds her for her beauty, And cannot see beyond the veil,…

Her beauty is like the full moon on the darkest midnight, Her beauty resembles the gorgeous meadows of June, Her love is more priceless than mountains of gold and silver, Her biography is free from the arrows of suffering. She…

Were I to possess the Crown of joys, I would barter them all for her priceless love, The victory, conquest, and coronation of my life, Or a beggar, seeker, and quester for a lifetime. Her face is whiter and lovelier…

Love and beauty, those sacred blessings, I have loved their most Celestial heights, Like a gift and trophy to my blessed life, And met a goddess lofty and pure, The paragon of all perfection's nature bestows. Where the loveliest dwellings…

I yearn to escape from the jail of the world, The phantasmal prison of my life, Like a fluttering falcon finally freed of its cage of steel, Or a diseased eagle perishing in the scorching Sahara, Looking at envy at…

Gods' empire extends beyond the universe, Our planet but a speck of dust in the limitless cosmos, The most Supreme of all wisdoms. Instruct me in the infancy of my wisdom, Make my personality into a monument of excellence, Defined…

Why isn't my existence like the everlasting stars, that endure forever and never fade, Or pure and virtuous as the Virgin skies, Shining with the pristine glow of many gems, Lord grant me the nectars of divine happiness, The chalice…

Her beauty is like the sunrise, and her affections like the lasting fountains of Abe Zamzam, That when I bathe in them, I am purified of all the germs of life, Purged of fires and eclipses, of all life's darkest…

My days were full of psalms and celebrations, My hours were a perpetual April, Now I feel only dethronements and decays, Yet the heavenly birth of the spring, And the silver Candles of the heavens oft, To thrones and princedoms…

I quest for marriage and fame like twin felicities, Metaphors of victory over all my defeats in life, For the falconry of my verse to soar to the stars, And with Universal fragrances to fill the hearts of posterity, For…

Injured and wounded a thousand times by life, Her love and affections became a heavenly pharmacy to my existence, Like a beaming sun of felicity that has risen, from the Celestial apartment of the East. The Sages have expressed that…

Let the growing Crescent become the full moon, Let the bud become a flourishing daisy of June, Let wisdom reach her zenith and piety her peak. If we are given the Crowns of lasting faith and virtue, With her cordial…

Lovers are like two twin roses, Love is as constant as the northern star, The union of hearts, bodies, and minds for a lifetime. The henna on a beautiful bride's hands, Should not be removed for her entire mortality, Like…

Beauties have cast their arrows of fire in my heart, By me falling in love a thousand times, they as distant as the stars. Why should pain and fire consume my heart, Or this burning desire be the existential plague,…

We must fall many times before we learn to walk endlessly, We must sin countless times before we achieve the summit of piety, Hearts polished like gold, syllables and actions of righteousness, With lifelong and fortified faith in God, When…

Thousands of stone hearted beauties have cast their fatal arrows in my heart, By the intensity of my love and their hearts like brass or lifeless glaciers, Distant and indifferent as the blazing Constellations. Dear God, the beauties of the…

Many consider worldly life To be an episode of suffering, Like a pilgrimage thru endless valleys of feet bleeding thorns. We aspire to the skies, For the fulfilment of our dream's aspirations and desires, Yet like an eagle with cut…

I believe I am not unique in my crucifixion, There are many lives besieged by more fatal spears, Many hearts bearing more gigantic thorns, Many existences in deeper abysses and blacker midnights, And plagued by Gethsemanes more poisonous aspics. Yet…