Saturday 19 December 2015

ASMA MEJDI


ASMA
MEJDI
ADVOCATES OF LIGHT

Soul-hunters
Head-reapers
Flesh-shredders
Bone-choppers
Curse-bearers
Chaos-seekers
Blood-thirsty scavengers
Look at your hands,
mindless barbarians,
at TERROR's demand
they do but slaughter
to seize more land.
This is how you expand!
Attired the same as saints,
brutes at heart,
who at EVIL's behest,
ravage and infest.
YOU SAVAGES!
Robed in black,
bathed in sin,
without the least of query,
you slay
lest, WE,
the 'faithless', shall prevail.
Sowing death and dread,
everywhere you go it's
but blight!
Such is pest.
Hoarding trophies of limbs
and skulls,
as you embark on your sanguinary quest.
You are but immersed
in fiendish reveries
of your 'heaven',
come your eternal rest.
You kill and bomb your way up
to where you solemnly swear
you shall go, first.
Such a contest!
Knowing none can undo the done,
we shall never hide,
wimp out
nor run.
With our faith coursing
hot and loud our veins,
braver and stronger
we shall rise to collect the gains.
''ALL FOR PEACE, and
PEACE FOR ALL'',
hear us shout.
Such is our WAR-CRY.
Watch out!
We're coming up,
life in hands and
heads held high.
RIGHT is our ally.
You shall recede,
as we unite
and aim without cease
to defeat
all that you deify.
Your twisted version
of our PEACEFUL RELIGION
shan't never again see the light
as long as WE,
THE ADVOCATES OF LIGHT
are on mission.


A suicide bomber's aspirations; ludicrous follies.
THE CALL OF SIRENS

He was promised 'an eternity'
amidst the fairest of fairies,
whom no creature has ever seen.
''Hear them calling...
Your sirens,
fiery and ripen'd,
have been
forever waiting.''
''O beloved,
ain't you coming?''
What shall I pay?
For HERE is such an abhorrent stay,
Try as may,
THIS I cannot bear,
tell me not to stay.
What's the trick?
''TICTAC, TICKTOCK,
listen!
That's your ticking golden
ticket.
Come and get it,
Now!
Run brother, run!
You're but a trigger away from heaven.
In a trice,
you shall join your brethern.''
BOOM...
A BLAST!
Once a killer,
twice a victim,
he, at last,
met his doom.


Asma Mejdi
TUNISIA


5 comments:

  1. Thank you so much for publishing my poems. Stay blessed <3

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  3. Dear Asma,

    Your poem "ADVOCATES OF LIGHT" is an unshaky diatribe waged against the so-called "terrorists"! So violent, so blatant that believe me, reading and FEELING it, none of the terrorists could think of putting him/herself at your the speaker's enmity! Keep up the good work!

    "The Call of Sirens" is so sarcastic in tone, so onomatopoeic and immediate in sound, so coherent in diction an so fast in rhythm that I had to read it thrice to get a relatively firm grip on its meaning! Simply: AMAZING in its situational irony: the unexpected eternal meets the unexpected ephemeral in the treatment of suicide bombers' topic! Thumbs up Asma! Really, you should be proud of yourself poet!

    Yasser Rhimi

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    1. Bless you dear friend for all your heartwarming words and support. Thank you so much

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  4. beautiful poem queen Asma. still my best part "twice a victim"

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