Samer Madbak Poems

It needs no much talking
I’ll straightway declare:
It’s friendship I’m stalking-
And friends are so rare-
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When lances of loneliness stab me so deep,
As daystar declines, and the Globe falls asleep,
When uncontrolled sadness reigns over my realms,
A feeling of sore in my heart overwhelms.
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How shall I thank you? Let me count the ways
And though the styles of hearty gratitude
Are various, do forgive my attitude
If I, in shaky verse, should pen my praise
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My stalk is dry, these boughs are struck with blight
This figless foliage stands a barren tree
A life anathema my fair decree
To wither from the roots is verdict right
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Oh little pet, how much we are akin
Two lonesome creatures in a crystal jail
With glassy eyes we plod an aimless trail
An idle flutter and a visc'ral fin
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Oh den of dire dreams, and pit of pain
How woeful are your whims, your wicked web
Your beaming bliss is but a bilious bleb
Thou hole of heady hopes, O world inane!
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Domesticated, this bloodthirsty beast
Is tame, these feral urges are subdued
Refined and meek the erstwhile brash and crude
And fragrant fasting foils that flagrant feast
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INTRODUCTION:

How shall I start, O how can I commence
My ditty, Muse, when I am short of sense
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Sweet Mother, there is nothing I can tell,
My love is past the bound’ries of expression
And if I lisp, my terms are ill digression
A stray account of me, a wasted yell,
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'Twas not my fault
But cosmic time
That flung me to this vault
Of boundless strife
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