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*{ INTO THE DESERT I RIDE ALONE }*
thezman
01/29/05 at 09:13:38
  Bismillah

  Salam Alaikum;

Far InTo The Desert I Solemnly Ride
With My Deeds Alone By My Side
When The Sorrows Of Life, The Soul OverCast
And, Sick Of The Present, I Cling To The Past.
When The Eyes Drown In Regretful Tears
From The Fond ReCollections Of Former Years
And Shadows Of Things That Have Long Since Fled
Fleeing The Mind, Like The Souls Of The Dead.
Bright Visions Of Glory, That Vanish Too Soon
Day-Dreams That DeParted By ManHood's Noon
Attachments By Fate Or By FalseHood Left
And My Native Land, Whose Magical Name
Warms The Heart With An Eternal Flame
The Home Of My ChildHood, The Haunts Of My Prime
All The Passions And Scenes Of That Rapturous Time
When The Feelings Were Young And The World Was New
All, Now ForSaken, ForGotten, ForeGone!
And I, Alone In Exile ReMembered By None
My Lofty Aimes Abandoned, My Noble Acts UnDone
Weary Of All That Is Under The Sun.

Far InTo The Desert I Continue To Ride
With My Deeds Alone By My Side
When The Wild Turmoil Of This Wearisome Life
With It's Scenes Of Oppression, Corruption, And Strife.
The Proud Man's Frown, And The Base Man's Fear
The Scorner's Laugh, And The Sufferer's Tear
And Malice, And Meanness, And FalseHood, And Folly
DisPose Me To Musing And Dark Melancholy.
When My Bosom Is Full, And My Thoughts Are High
And My Soul Is Sick With The BondMan's Sigh
Oh! Then There Is FreeDom, And Joy, And pride.
Far In The Desert Alone To Ride!
There Is Rapture To Vault On A Mighty  Steed
And To Bound Away With The Eagle's Speed
With The Death-Fraught FireLock In My Hand
The Only law Of The Desert Land!

Far InTo The Desert I Continue To Ride
With My Deeds Alone By My Side
Away, Away, In The Wilderness Vast
Where Man's Foot Has Never passed.
A Region Of Emptiness, Howling And Drear
Which Man Has Abandoned From Famine And Fear
Which The Snake And The Lizard Inhabit Alone
With The TwiLight Bat From The Yawning Stone.
Where Grass, Nor Herb, Nor Shrub Takes Root
Save Poisonous Thorns That Pierce The Foot
And The Bitter-Melon, For Food And Drink
Is The Pilgrim's Fare By The Salt lake's Brink.
A Region Of Dought, Where No River Glides
Nor Ripping Brook With Osiered Sides
Where Sedgy Pool, Nor Bubbling Fount
Nor Tree, Nor Cloud, Nor Misty Mount
Appears, To ReFresh The Aching Eye
But The Barren Earth, And The Burning Sky
And The Black Horizon, Round And Round
Spread, Void Of Living Sight Or Sound.

And Here, While The Night-Winds Around Me Sigh
And The Stars Shine Bright In The MidNight Sky
As I Sit Humbled By The Desert Stone
Like The Prophet Mohammed, In The Cave Alone.
A ReAssuring Voice Fills The Desert Wild
Like A Father Consoling His Frightened Child
Which Banishes Bitterness, Wrath, And Fear
Saying: 'MAN IS DISTANT, BUT ALLAH IS NEAR!'

Fi Amanillah
Ziad
 
Re: *{ INTO THE DESERT I RIDE ALONE }*
se7en
01/29/05 at 20:49:52

as salaamu alaykum,

did you write this?  it is very good, masha'Allah.

I just have one suggestion:  can you please not capitalize every word?  it makes it difficult to stay with the flow of the poem.  

jazak Allahu khayran :)  
Re: *{ INTO THE DESERT I RIDE ALONE }*
Trustworthy
01/30/05 at 17:14:12
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Fi imanillah.  Masha-Allah. But no matter how sick you are of the present, you should never cling to the past or else you would be living a waisted life.

Ma-assalaamah...
Re: *{ INTO THE DESERT I RIDE ALONE }*
thezman
01/30/05 at 19:39:43
  Bismillah

  Salam Alaikum;

Yes  and  I'm glad you guys enjoyed it... And thanks for the Suggestions and Compliments.

 Fi Amanillah
 Ziad
Re: *{ INTO THE DESERT I RIDE ALONE }*
sis
01/30/05 at 20:15:29
alsalamu alaykum wa rhmat Ullahi wa barakatuh,

May Allah ta'ala make your travels a means to get closer to Him 'azza wa jal.

Your poem made me think of something. The Prophet sal Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam used to retreat to a cave.  

What's everyone's cave and place for retreat?

I usually go down to the river when it gets warm outside. But, now in the winter time its kinda difficult. And even then, in the summer time, there are many people around.

Subhan Allah, the tranquility of being alone, remembering Allah ta'ala is literally heaven on earth.


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