Tag: Maabad Said

  • She Left Beauty…

    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…

  • The Acrobat's Flight

    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…

  • Send in The Clowns

    Send in The Clowns

    by Maabad Said (Temple) Send in the clowns To Forgo all sadness Turn your miserable frown All the way Upside Down Let them plummet, let them sink To Drown you in your own drool As you break down In uncontrollable laughter With their comical banter Mind you The facade of their happiness Conceals the spite…

  • Temple

    Temple

    by Maabad Said (Temple) I spit… Tempting testaments of my temperament Like temperas of the temple of Tempe Without an instrumental, I draw mental pictures that make you tremble I draw templates of temptation at livid lava temperatures Full blown, they hit your temporal bones Fully stressed, like the tempo of a Tempest But by…

  • The Platonic Pledge

    The Platonic Pledge

    by Maabad Said I’ve got a petty poet’s pretty pretentious, Poetic poems and plenty of poetry to tell, Words overturning words, overturning Worlds Gushing in Spasmodic Hurls Rushing Luscious Lyrics of Metaphysics Raging Rhymes of Reason and Simple Symbolistic Sonnets Still, I stand distilled, unwilling as to pause it Flushing as I turn, the Vocalistic…

  • Humanity vs. Life

    Humanity vs. Life

    by Ahmed Salah and Maabad Said (Maabad) Bailiff :  ALL RISE… The honorable judge now resides… (Ahmed Salah) Judge :  please be seated… (Maabad) Bailiff : The  case : Humanity vs. Life with the charges  of oppression This court is now in session Prosecution (Humanity) ******************************* (Ahmed Salah)  I wanna make a resolution against life just…

  • Cry

    Cry

    by Maabad Said Cry, you imbecile, Why won’t you cry Cry one drop, cry a single tear Cry in anger and cry in fear Cry your life past and cry the end near Cry the hunger, cry in thirst Cry in silence, cry an outburst Cry in shame, cry in agony Cry the sloth, cry…

  • Release

    Release

    by Maabad Said In the end of days of the greatest fallacy In a world consumed by majesties and dynasties Death would be a release from this travesty Release me… Please, Wake me up from this nightmare I wish for a dreamless sleep And the day that I long for Is when my life passes…

  • I'm Retro

    I'm Retro

    by Maabad Said  I’m Retro If being Retro, Refers to a time… Where Meaning succumbed Rhyme Then I’m definitely Retro… If it refers to when music and songs had a Message, Not Anthems of asses and cleavage Or remotely pornographic But, today the songs we listened to, Are called old school, they’re called Classics But…