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Nowadays
by Safi Abdi → (All Poetry by Safi Abdi)
Thursday, June 4, 2015    Rated "G" by the Author.
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 Verity find you not, in their prophecy

Piety, a stranger in their purity.

 

Oh, those times of miracles:

The companions of al-Kahfi

Those days in the cave

A Time I’d crave.

 

Tell me, tell me

O truthful one

Tell me, tell me

As it was in the cave

The sun’s shade

There's the joy

In innocence’s day.

 

A new sheet calls for a new pen

New stars neighborhoods brighten.

There’s someone to save

On any single day.

In the kissing of flower

There’s that fragrance in the air.

 

They tell me to sing tragedy

They tell me to practice calamity

They holler

And there isn’t a single caller

And sin, merrier and bolder.

 

They smite

They exile

They ignite

Then call on the Infinite

Then kill

And cry Islam.

 

And there’s the smirk on his holiness

And the poor man’s cry in the awfulness

And we see heaven

And it’s wearing a frown.

O, truthful one

Whose Islam is it?

 

 

 


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Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on June 21, 2015
This is powerfully meaningful, apt and timely. I wish I had answers, Safi. I just pray of goodness, love, peace, and healing to begin to permeate this universe, this planet, and each individual. Thank you. Love and peace and best wishes,

Regis

Reviewed on June 4, 2015
Greetings to Poet Safi Abdi.



A poem that speaks itself out with a message of wisdom... "Nowadays" strikes the bells of justice, and its sounds calls the wise to act.



An edifying reading is offered through the stanzas of "Nowadays".



Viva the Poet!



In reverent appreciation,

Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU


Reviewed by J. Quantaman
Reviewed on June 4, 2015
Simple words, profound images. Gets me thinking.

Reviewed by Safi Abdi
Reviewed on June 4, 2015
Mr Bolton,
Thanks for the review,

To answer your question, am not waiting for an answer as I've already figured out the answer. I guess you'd need to do the same on your own.

Your bio picture raises many questions.

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on June 4, 2015
"O, truthful one / Whose Islam is it?"

That then is the question, is it not?.


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