Tribute Poems
To The Caliph Haroun Al-Rashid
by Ibrahim ibn Adham
Religion's gems can ne'er adorn
The flimsy robe by pleasure worn;
Its feeble texture soon would tear,
And give those jewels to the air.
Thrice happy they who seek th' abode
Of peace and pleasure in their God!
Who spurn the world, its joys despise,
And grasp at bliss beyond the skies.
مدح المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم - Poem by مارون عبود
by مارون عبود
طَـبعتْكَ كـفُ الله سيفَ أمان
كـمنَ الـرّدى في حدِه للجاني
الـعدلُ قـائمهُ وفـي اِفْـرَنْدهِ
سـورُ الـهدى نُزلّن سحر بيان
وعـليك أمـلى الله مـن آياته
شـهباً هـتكْنَ مـدارع البُهتان
لـولا كـتابك مـا رأينا معجزاً
فـي أمـةٍ مـرصوصة الـبنيان
حملت إلى الأقطار من صحرائها
قـبسَ الهدى ومطارفَ العمران
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Esther Ngozi Ogbonna
by Joseph Ogbonna
It was indeed an odyssey of excruciating
pain, reluctantly embarked upon
that led to an abrupt farewell
that got you ferried in splendour
by His majesty's service 'HMS Life Eternal'
by your guardian angels maneuvered
on her maiden voyage.
Congratulations for your newfound bliss and
world of non-existent tears.
You have meritoriously earned the Saviour's
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Quarantined
by Man MrytSo .
Continue readingTribute to Princess Diana
by Joseph Ogbonna
Blessed Diana, thrilling phrases of love would make a paragraph,
for your much distinguished and magnificent epitaph.
Your slumber to eternity be likened to a sleeping beauty,
who will be awakened by the kiss of a Seraphic prince of immortality.
For a wedding in the heavenly realms forever shall be
an occasion for the heavens and earth to jointly see;
The hierarchy of heaven to grace the occasion,
inhabitants of the earth beneath to magnify its celebration,
the stars and other luminous bodies give a vivid expression
of the wedding of a goddess of the hunt, as a lasting impression.
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Esther Ngozi Ogbonna
by Joseph Ogbonna
It was indeed an odyssey of excruciating
pain, reluctantly embarked upon
that led to an abrupt farewell
that got you ferried in splendour
by His majesty's service 'HMS Life Eternal'
by your guardian angels maneuvered
on her maiden voyage.
Congratulations for your newfound bliss and
world of non-existent tears.
You have meritoriously earned the Saviour's
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Quarantined
by Man MrytSo .
Continue readingJohn Wayne Brown
by Randy Johnson
My grandmother and his father were first cousins, and that made us related.
When he died on the 3rd of June, his death wasn't something that I anticipated.
When a person dies, it's something that people hate.
He has gone to Heaven at the young age of forty-eight.
His mother named him after John Wayne, the deceased movie star.
Now Heaven is the place where both my friend and John Wayne are.
It's always hard to lose a member of the Human Race.
John is dead but he is in a far better place.
[Dedicated to John W. Brown (1970-2019) who died on June 3, 2019.]
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Tribute to Princess Diana
by Joseph Ogbonna
Blessed Diana, thrilling phrases of love would make a paragraph,
for your much distinguished and magnificent epitaph.
Your slumber to eternity be likened to a sleeping beauty,
who will be awakened by the kiss of a Seraphic prince of immortality.
For a wedding in the heavenly realms forever shall be
an occasion for the heavens and earth to jointly see;
The hierarchy of heaven to grace the occasion,
inhabitants of the earth beneath to magnify its celebration,
the stars and other luminous bodies give a vivid expression
of the wedding of a goddess of the hunt, as a lasting impression.
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يا رسول الله - Poem by
by إلياس فرحات
غَمَرَ الأَرْضَ بِأَنْوَارِ النُّبُوَّةْ
كَوْكَبٌ لَمْ تُدْرِكِ الشَّمْسُ عُلُوَّهْ
لَمْ يَكُدْ يَلْمَعُ حَتَّى أَصْبَحَتْ
تَرْقُبُ الدُّنْيَا وَمَنْ فِيهَا دُنُوَّهْ
بَيْنَمَا الكَوْنُ ظَلاَمٌ دَامِسٌ
فُتِحَتْ فِي مَكَّةَ لِلنُّورِ كُوَّةْ
وَطَمَى الإِسْلاَمُ بَحْرَاً زَاخِرَاً
بِأَوَاذِيِّ الْمَعَالِي وَالفُتُوَّةْ
مَنْ رَأَى الأَعْرَابَ فِي وَثْبَتِهِمْ
عَرَفَ البَحْرَ وَلَمْ يَجْهَلْ طُمُوَّهْ
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