Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

The Waste Land

We do not know where we live now.No difference we see between man and cow,And between Satan and angel.We do not know if we are on earth or in..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Distance

You want me,I want you;Moon wants Sea,Grass wants dew.Yet you stayFar from me,Moon the wayFar from sea.

© Sayeed Abubakar

My Love Touched Your Eyes

Walking across the broken heart of mineWhen my love touched your eyes,Your indifferent hair started flyingIn the Spring-air like withered leavesAnd..

© Sayeed Abubakar

My Moon

Never love came to me so deep,Never love came to me so high;Now without you I cannot sleep,Without your love now I do dieAs a fish dies without..

© Sayeed Abubakar

I Will Love You

I will love you, my bird,Until you become tired,Until you say in grief,'Let me love you and sleep.'You will fall asleep thenOn my heart..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Our Hair Grows Gray

How fast our hair grows gray!Before we sayOur evening prayer, the night falls,Death calls.

© Sayeed Abubakar

The Savior

Look, how like a python,How like a ravenous whaleAnd how like the Bermuda TriangleThe hungry Fire gapes at us!How terribly the maddened FireDevours..

© Sayeed Abubakar

For Ever

When dusk appears here,It dawns in your country.Night marches with snake's hood;My heart and eyebrow tremble in fear.When night approaches at your..

© Sayeed Abubakar

How Shall I Prove My Love

My heart cries for you,You can't hear that cry.My eyes wet with dew,Before you see, it gets dry.Tell me, o Dove,How shall I prove my love?

© Sayeed Abubakar

I Cannot Realize

I realize buds, flowersAnd their blooming;Only their sheddingI cannot realize.I realize clouds, rainAnd the sweet soft sound of their fall;I cannot..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Eurydice

My heart has fallen down under your feet;Listening to your love-songComing from the distant shore of the Atlantic ocean,My heart has utterly been..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Her Two Eyes

I have forgotten her face;Only her two eyesYet float into my eyes.Still those two eyesMake me madAnd make me love her blindly.

© Sayeed Abubakar

How Can I Write Poems

How can I write poems on the Moon tonightWhen fightIs going on against those wild beastsWho are doing feastWith the meat of my brothers and..

© Sayeed Abubakar

I Dream A World

I dream a world where there's no war,No suffering, crying, sorrow.I dream a world where all are rich,A man needs nothing to borrow.I dream a world..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Let Us Move To Forests

Heroes are villains here;Villains, heroes.O friends, let us move to forestsWhere tigers are still tigers,Deer, deer.

© Sayeed Abubakar

False

Once her false speechesTasted very sweet;All the sweetmeatsTurned tasteless in shame.Once her false promisesSeemed the inevitable laws of..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Love Is A Light

Where does love come from andGet settled in our heart?It makes one's life heavenThough once it was desert.Love is a light; all lightsCome to remove..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Song For Faith

Blow the sail, boatman, in this unruly wind. Removing the sweatOf forehead, grip the oar in the blister-stricken hand.With successive strokes of..

© Sayeed Abubakar

Easy And Difficult

Death is very easy;Difficult is birth.Destruction is very easy;Difficult is construction.Thorn is very easy;Difficult is flower.Hatred is very..

© Sayeed Abubakar

A Nation Remembers

Today the stars shine soft and clear,For those we hold forever dear.The brave who stood, who did not fall,In heart and soul — they gave their all.The..

© Memorial Day

For Every Soldier’s Name

For every soldier’s name we call,There echoes freedom — strong and tall.Their stories written in the sand,Their courage carved across the land.They..

© Memorial Day

The Silent March

Along the fields of endless green,Where only ghosts of war are seen,The silence hums, the shadows play,It’s there we bow this solemn day.They marched..

© Memorial Day

Heroes Never Die

They say a hero’s never gone,Their light lives on when dawn is drawn.Through whispered winds and morning dew,Their strength remains in me and..

© Memorial Day

The Price of Freedom

Beneath the sky of red and blue,The flag waves proud, the hearts are true.Across the hills, through winds that cry,Brave souls still sleep where..

© Memorial Day

To Horace Bumstead

Have you been sore discouraged in the fight,And even sometimes weighted by the thoughtThat those with whom and those for whom you foughtLagged far..

© James Weldon Johnson