had1atallah
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Standing in the door Trapped As her people were trapped With anxiety And fear She settled in her chair Snorting small ones And as the slaughter went on She looked at her watch The chorus of poets broke in Gibran the heroine And I the cocaine. Her feet Creeping to us in warning Toe nails…
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Her love life was crippled Because everything smelled like skunk She bought special shampoo And expensive perfume The modern incarnations Of a goddess in business school This was a disaster And an opportunity in her failure Do you smell it now? A white lie with constant exposure Damages your olfactory With rewards more powerful than…
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A world so gray The word ‘enigmatic’ A powerful ray Then a glaring sun Bunched shadows potent On white walls and guns Not so far away But distant…fatal Like Love? …Then Love. Love. Love.
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Slip a knife into the edge of a shell It captures a light this greatest pearl Why is it smashed against that doctor’s gate? Our eyes roll up and bodies rigid We invested a thoughtful look in his eyes The news came to the doctor He wondered whether he had baptized The foaming waves of…
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Listening to the distant calls, And sauntering by the sea The water evokes sounds, Only the heart can perceive Will morphs into a prism, The colors it comes to recognize It shakes hands with Wisdom, And thoughts soon materialize A poet’s dream is a forbidden planet, Where pens do the killing, And Love steps in…
Hadi Atallah 