The Poetry Marathon

7. The Sleep of Lovers

7. The Sleep of Lovers

I lie besides you

listening to your even breathing,

as you sleep

the lampshade illuminates one

half of your beautiful face

leaving the other half in silhouette.

 

My heart constricts

out of sheer intense love I feel for you.

My breath catches in my throat.

I cannot take my eyes of you.

After all these years

you still have this effect on me.

 

I want to reach over and caress you,

kiss those slightly parted lips,

embrace you in my arms.

I hesitate…for fear of waking you.

Subconsciously, you feel my intense gaze.

Your sleepy expressive eyes open

ever so slightly and focus on me.

You smile and my heart lurches again

in total love and adoration for you.

 

I switch the lampshade off

and we sleep in embrace,

the blissful sleep of lovers in a cocoon of love.

Anwar Suleman

6. Corruption

6.  Corruption

In every facet of government

from the top to the bottom,

you will find corruption.

 

Is this what we voted for?

Is this why we put you in power,

so that you can rape this innocent beautiful country?

 

Stealing from the state coffers,

to enrich your own pockets.

Shame on you! You corrupted Politicians!

 

You walk with contemptuous arrogance into Parliament.

As if it is your own Kingdom n Fiefdom.

Yet on the streets the public is in abject poverty.

 

Wake up Populus!

Stop voting for these incorrigible Politicians.

Rise up against Corruption!

Free yourself from being enslaved by their lies.

 

Anwar Suleman

 

Hi All

Just a few hours to go … getting ready

5. The Beggar

5. The Beggar

 

The beggar, on the street corner,

down on his knees, eyes pleading, beseeching.

Straddled on his shoulder, is a little girl,sweating.

Uncomfortable, sickly and with fever,burning.

 

What a life is this for them?

No food! No clothing! No shelter!

No basic amenities

and no shelter!

 

What a life is this for them?

Living on leftover,

a few coins thrown in their cup.

Scrummaging forever!

 

Has our hearts become so hard and common,

that we see the beggar a’s vermin?

Is it not our responsibility,

to eradicate poverty?

 

Anwar Suleman

 

Twas The Night Before The Marathon

Twas the night before the marathon

And as the sun set,
I was hunched at the keyboard just starting to sweat

The deadline approaching, I done ate all my snacks….

…shit’s wack.

But the muses are nourished not on smoked almonds, cheese and crackers

The succulent nectar of inspiration their only necessary nutriment

As they flit round the edges of my consciousness famished, mouths parched with too many words unexpressed
Too many concepts left to gather dust like these stacks of old notebooks that weigh down shelves with dreams unfinished

A cool breeze chills the nervous sweat beading brow
Sun sinks behind islands on horizon, last wisps of golden sun drift into indigo sky
As yet devoid of stars
Still and darkening
Soon to start

4.My Back

4. My back

Click! Clack! Crack!

There goes my back!

Cannot stand straight.

with a hurting back, that is my fate!

 

Ooh! Aah! Eish!

My back is finish!

Pulsating pain!

My whole body in strain.

 

Drum! Doof! Whack!

My wife massages my back.

Her touch, soothing n calm

like a relaxing balm.

 

Click! Clack! Crack!

I am now backnown on track!

 

Anwar Suleman

 

3. Allergy

3. Allergy

Unseen, Microscopic Dustmites..

Living in the air

and everywhere.

 

Watery eyes, sneezing, coughing

and running nose.

Cannot even smell the fragrant rose.

 

These Dustmites are inflaming my allergy,

causing an infection in my nasal cavity.

with some infused medication that I require

and it’s of to bed I retire.

 

Anwar Suleman

 

 

– s.j.duncan – – jandrasean –

Hi, l am Sandra Duncan from Australia, this my first attempt at the Poetry Marathon,  l have been writing poetry for as long as l remember, these days mostly on instagram. 

Trial Post

Hello all. This is my first attempt at the half marathon so I’ll give it a try and see if the muses allow the creativity to flow long enough 

Is this thing on?

A big hello to everyone out there! This is my first marathon, so I am nervous and excited all at once! I just finished up a poetry course in the spring, so I’m hoping to put that knowledge to good use. I’ve been doing mostly editing lately, so I am glad that I will be able to finally put my own work out there! I’m so happy to be meeting so many other poets!

 

God bless,

Katie