Tag Archives: poetic

Drink Ink

July 5, 2019Poemscreative, Drink Ink, food for thought, Inspiration, inspire, lifestyle, original, personal, poem, poetic, poetry, Satori Publishing, spirit, the basics, timeless, uniiversalsatoripublishing2013

Let me swim in a sea of ink
Let me write all I feel and think
Then I will have no regret if I sink.

Life In Four Lines

June 12, 2018Poemsacross the board, dramatic, eternal, facing facts, food for thought, Inspiration, Life In Four Lines, original, passion, personal, poetic, Satori Publishing, spirit, the basics, timeless, universal, visionarysatoripublishing2013

Since the dawn of time scratching the head to ignite
Trudging daily on the treadmill to preserve the spark
The very last thought is like the switching off of a light
No-body is conscious of the worm in the dark.

(c)Satori Publishing, 2018.

Not Your Fault

June 12, 2018Poemsartistic, creative, culture, cutting edge, dramatic, espire, facing facts, food for thought, higher ground, Inspiration, inspire, joy, love, lyrical, Not Your Fault, original, passion, personal, poetic, revolution, Satori Publishing, soul, spirit, timeless, universal, visionarysatoripublishing2013

Shame? Depression?
Sit alone and cry?
Lay down and die?
Your fault you were broken?

No! No! No! Know this —-
The break is not weakness
You live to fight another day
The fracture will set stronger
AT THE POINT IT WAS BROKEN
Stand up!! A complete person
God’s creation, a thing of Wonder!

(c)Satori Publishing, 2018.

Cycle

June 12, 2018Poemsacross the board, artistic, Cycle, eternal, higher ground, Inspiration, inspire, joy, love, original, passion, personal, poetic, sacred, Satori Publishing, soul, timeless, universal, visionarysatoripublishing2013

I am the son of my father
I am my father of the son.

(c)Satori Publishing, 2018.

Quietude

April 30, 2017Poemsartistic, bliss, creative, divine, eternal, food for thought, higher ground, Inspiration, inspire, joy, oxygen, passion, personal, poetic, Quietude, sacred, Satori, Satori Publishing, soul, spirit, timeless, transcend, universal, visionary, zensatoripublishing2013

Controlled breathing, belly deep, puts the brakes on Conscious Thought
In at nose, hold, out of mouth, empty lungs, reduces the chatter to nought
Rich oxygen to a quiet mind is the creative food for thought
Silence aids victory when the big battles are fought.

(c)Satori Publishing,2018.

Be

March 6, 2017Poemsartistic, aspire, Be, brash, creative, culture, cutting edge, divine, dramatic, eternal, higher ground, Inspiration, inspire, joy, lifestyle, love, original, passion, personal, poetic, romantic, Satori Publishing, soul, spirit, timeless, universal, visionarysatoripublishing2013

Be an Artist
Be a god
Create your own universe
Create your own creatures
Breathe life into the chapter and verse
Your progeny, your features
Be a god
Be an Artist.

Lahore City

March 5, 2017Lyrics/Songsartistic, brash, creative, culture, dramatic, erotic, eternal, exotic, Girls, higher ground, History, Inspiration, inspire, joy, Lahore, Lahore City, lifestyle, love, lyrical, original, Pakistani, passion, personal, poetic, romantic, Satori Publishing, sensual, timeless, travel, universal, visionarysatoripublishing2013

Lahore city, the girls so pretty
Lahore city, the girls so pretty
The girls in your city are pretty I’m sure
But in Lahore they’re pretty just a little bit more
Lahore city, the girls so pretty
Lahore city, the girls so pretty.

When you want to get away from every vulture
Take a trip to Lahore, city of historic culture
The jewellery quarter has diamonds and pearls
But nothing as precious as the golden girls
All the parks have peacocks strolling on the lawns
All the gardens have ladies parading their finest gowns
The flowers in bloom will make your heart sigh
You can have heaven without having to die

Early in the morning when Lahore is bathed in sunshine
Or at dusk when she seems to be wearing silk so fine
Listen and recite, there’s a poem on every street corner
Every sight and sound sings a song in her honour
Taste the food so lush it has certain powers
Her perfume is sweeter than all the flowers
Every pretty girl you see will make you cry
You can have heaven without having to die

Every sense, every emotion magnified
Every nerve in my body electrified
I am wired to every star in the sky
My heart is a kite ready to fly
If you want further proof
Meet me up on the roof
Look at all the sweet angels walking by
You can have heaven without having to die

Cellular

February 2, 2017Poemsartistic, aspire, Cellular, creative, facing facts, higher ground, inspire, passion, poetic, Satori Publishing, timeless, universal, visionarysatoripublishing2013

Be careful of what you think
Be very, very careful —
Every single cell in your body
Listens in to your every single thought
Every single thought has the potential
To be a self-fulfilling prophesy
So be careful of what you think
Be very, very careful …

The Life

February 2, 2017Poemsartistic, aspire, creative, higher ground, Inspiration, joy, lifestyle, love, poetic, Satori Publishing, The Life, timeless, universalsatoripublishing2013

The creative impulse
The creative process
The creative product.

Take This Stone ( Place It Upon Your Heart )

July 19, 2016Lyrics/Songsacross the board, apple of your eye, artistic, betrayal, creative, dramatic, end of the line, facing facts, grief, heart of stone, heartache, love, lust, major surgery, original, passion, personal, poetic, regret, romantic, Satori Publishing, sensual, stone heart, taboo, Take This Stone Place It uPon Your Heart, timeless, treason, universal, vengeance, visionary, voodoo rhythms, your one true lovesatoripublishing2013

Take this stone, place it upon your heart
The less it moves the less you will hurt
Take this stone, place it upon your heart
The less it moves the less you will hurt

Gently, calm the frantic beat of your aching heart
Release the valve before it blows itself apart
Ease the pressure on that pump in your breast
Weigh it down before it tears a hole in your chest
It cannot reason with the scale of her treason
The mask is off, the hate is out in the open

Take this stone, place it upon your heart
The less it moves the less you will hurt
Take this stone, place it upon your heart
The less it moves the less you will hurt

She stabbed repeatedly, with a song on her lips
She danced over your body, with leaps and skips
She checked the recipe all the while
She watched you bleed with a smile
Whatever took place she did it willingly
The look on her face!! She did it killingly

Take this stone, place it upon your heart
The less it moves the less you will hurt
Take this stone, place it upon your heart
The less it moves the less you will hurt

Your own flesh and blood now smear you with mud
Their natural love ran dry as you drowned in the flood
The apple of your eye is the one who twisted the knife
Your one true love casually switched off your life
You are all alone, turn your heart to stone
Build a wall around, turn your heart to stone

Take this stone, place it upon your heart
The less it moves the less you will hurt
Take this stone, place it upon your heart
The less it moves the less you will hurt.

Do Not Ask Of Me For That First Love, My Beloved

May 30, 2016Poemsartistic, aspire, creative, cutting edge, Do Not Ask Of Me For That First Love My Beloved, dramatic, facing facts, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, first love, grief, heartache, higher ground, inspire, joy, lifestyle, love, lust, major surgery, Mujh say pahli si mohabbat mere mahboob na maang, my beloved, Pakistani, passion, poetic, regret, romantic, Satori Publishing, timeless, translated from Urdu, translation, universal, Urdu to English, visionarysatoripublishing2013

Do not ask of me for that first love, my Beloved
As I understood it, having you here makes Life so luminous
Sharing your woes, I have no quarrel with sorrows of the world
Your radiant beauty blesses the earth with eternal Spring
What does this world possess to compare with your eyes?

If you were mine, Fate would bow to my command
It was not so, though I wanted it only to be so
The present time has other torments besides mere love
Other pleasures besides the thrill of coming together

Dark spells threaded on the brutal loom of Ages
Woven in silk, satin and brocade
Hand over fist, bodies sold in alleys and bazaars
Bathed in blood, shrouded in ash
Bodies forged in furnaces of pestilence
Pus oozing from their festering sores …
What can I do? My gaze keeps turning to them too
But what can I do? Though your beauty is ever attractive

The present time has other torments besides mere love
Other pleasures besides the thrill of coming together
Do not ask of me for that first love, my Beloved.

(My take on a poem by the beloved Faiz Ahmed Faiz)

The Knowing

February 27, 2016Poemsacross the board, artistic, aspire, brash, creative, cutting edge, dramatic, end of the line, facing facts, higher ground, inspire, joy, lifestyle, love, major surgery, original, passion, personal, poetic, Satori Publishing, self-development, The Knowing, the vision thing, timeless, universal, visionarysatoripublishing2013

You know
You can SEE it or it’s invisible
If it’s possible or impossible
You know
If you can or if you cannot
If you will or you will not
You know
If you will fail or succeed
If you have a fertile seed
You know
If you will be rich or poor
It’s an open window or a closed door
You know
If by the gods you have been blessed
If by fickle Fate you have been cursed
You know
If it’s to be a famine or a feast
If you will have many or the least
You know
If you will be laughing or crying
If you will be living or dying
You know
If your time is coming or going
It is all in the knowing

And you know it.