Beauty

Beauty

Why am I drawn to write dark poetry? Is it because I feel that morbidity is beautiful?

When death is brought on the day of no doubt, to be sacrificed, is it brought as a lamb.
Is it doe-eyed?
Will it fawn and cry?

Will it plead beauty?

When you read a poem about love and frolicking, is it beautiful if there is no desire and damnation?
Was Dorian Gray beautiful instead of, or because of, his ugliness?

Was he beautiful at all?

Wasn't Mona Lisa but a plain girl made beautiful by the seemly swathes of dark that Da Vinci framed her by?

Her eyes might follow you, hauntingly,
But It's not in the eye of the beholder,
That beauty.

However, lust always is.

A rose does not lead a man to bleed, until he picks it.
A beauty does not corrupt a man, until he desires it..

And cannot have it.

The first sight is yours,
But the second is the devils
Because you lusted after it.

Beauty

Men might lust after beauty,
But beauty transcends them.
Escapes capture by our eyes,

Resides forever in our heart.

And when that is corrupted,
Beauty is lost...

And all that remains
Is lust
Corruption.....

A pale shadow,

END





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Location:Skull Island

Wake up and smell the Coffee

"Wake up and Smell the Coffee"

Two layers of darkness
Envelope me
The inner, shiny
Mirrored and bright.

The tear intrigues
Like a magpies delight
Wafer thin
Feather light

Slither and glides
Slips inside

The bitterest of things
That melts in my mouth
Oozes velvet

I love this best
With Cappuccino
On the side.

But to all the rest
The coffee is the truth

To which this
Dark
Columbian
Chocolate
Is the lie




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Location:Coursera: Sharpened Vision, a poetry workshop.

For a friend.

And I understand where you are coming from... That there is some Power that is unseeable.

When Aristotle explored life, he did so from looking into its infancy- he reasoned that if you could understand it there then you could anywhere.

And when he looked into it there he found a life force that was clear and evident.

In one experiment he took an embryo cut it in half and reimplanted it back into the animal.
The embryo thrived and produced a whole infant animal... As if some regenerative power made it whole again.

Of all the sciences two figure greatly in the argument of the Qur'an
- one is embryology
- the second is cosmology..

And in our modern era, it is these two that point magnificently to a creator.

I completely understand the contempt that organised religion holds for many..

And yes Islam is organised, but critically with open sources (and not hidden material), and without a priesthood or clergy.

Sometimes it's the not knowing what you are supposed to do that holds you back from focussing on the meaning.

When you know what you are supposed to do, it leaves you free to experience the meaning.

Otherwise your mind is constantly this way and then that..
Without a clear direction or place.

And Islam is the direction, and to GOD is our return.




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Location:The Lyceum.