Category: – English
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A Conversation
by Rashad Abdulrahman He said, You spell “lust” by the way you walk It’s the word that your gait utters, and When you turn around I can trace it on your tight skirt Wrapped around your panties to revel the same letters, and Frankly, I’m ashamed that you excite me I’m ashamed that my head…
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My Sins Block my Du'a
by Abdul Salaam Abu Lo As I sit here alone, The tears rolling down my face It is not salt, but pain that I taste… So I leave now to go Stand before You I am helpless and alone, What else can I do? I have asked, I have begged But my sins block my…
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Contradictions
by Ahmed Salah See I’m a nigga trynna prove to y’all that I’m the lyricist The mentalist The nemesis Im mad bout everything Hip hop iz dead & I really think dat nobody cares Dem Youth been puffing dat herb & I’m saying who fucking cares Governmental shit manipulate some men hypnotize their minds to…
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Weaponz
by Ahmed Salah A bunch of gunz were together reminiscing Thinking bout how many lives they killed or those who gone missin AK-47 started saying I’m the illest In one second 15 of my bulletz can fly switching lives from livin to vividly kickin the soul outta the body division But the magnum started showing…
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The Problem!!
by Abdul Salaam Abu Lo What is the problem? We can’t have peace? We have to find the answer… To stop, desistand decease. If something is really biting you It’s not right to pass it on. Every single person’s got a problem It always comes… and then it’s gone. If you pass on your problem, And…
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Him
by Bel He intrudes, invades My quiet existence Penetrates my walls Stuns me with his brilliance The flames of his perfection Lick away at my core. My world is set ablaze When he is gone I am left with darkness Ashes And the tiny pieces Of what was For the briefest of moments, An overjoyed,…
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She Left Beauty…
by Maabad Said (Temple) She left beauty… Wherever she went A scent, a sensation Like she was heaven-sent A testament To test my sentiments My morality couldn’t comprehend My vanity never felt so redundant nor stressed She threw my insides into an abundant mess A intricate mesh of interchanging emotions Occasionally opposing Infinitely complex So…
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The Acrobat's Flight
by Maabad Said (Temple) To fly… He was always infatuated Oh, how he envied the birds To sprout wings… And enjoy the gentle caress Of nothingness Every night he’d be a raven Or an eagle soaring Then brutally awakened With the sense that he was falling He’d curse and vow… One day he would fly But…
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Rise of the Amazons
by Sara Babiker If I ever have a daughter I vow to never treat her differently Than a body and soul of nothing less than great wonder and mystery See the moment you were born dear you were nothing but ordinary You had the same rights as a man but different organs in those same…
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In Reply
by Ali Guduf Weep your kindled sorrow For it passed today and not tomorrow Stray away as is love’s lawful arrow In merriment,gaiety and loss of wit it most sail Reaching limits,to no excess no clamour and no parry it rends your heart Windows winded they shut Drapes a flutter no more Entwined this pitter…