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167 · Oct 2017
Today The King Passed Away
Mohamed Nasir Oct 2017
Today the King passed away
The cloudy sullen sky
The lull mourning air
The day intense sombre
On every channel
On every radio and television
On the printed pages
Of every newspaper
The bold headlines
Columns written
Views and interviews
Stories told retold
By young and old
Light and warm hearted
Or wrenching while it lasted
Experiences anecdotes
And quotes
Of his fine attributes
His kindness generosity
Of his royal character
Of a King much loved
A King we all knew
A King we served
Accustomed to
His simple dignified
Regale grandeur ways
On this day
His Royal Highness
The King passed away
And soon they'll parade
The Royal Highness
Pass our way
There rows upon rows
Of his loyal subjects
Cascading on to streets
Roads and sidewalks
To pay their last respect
Their last farewell
To his last journey
For the last time
That will last forever
In our minds
163 · Mar 2018
The Frogs
Mohamed Nasir Mar 2018
We call them frogs
Not those amphibians
Among tall reeds croaks
Nearby brooks and streams

Not of green coloured things
Come together in a swamp
And on rainy days sings
Their faces go plump

Rather we called politicians
Or their sorts frogs stoop low
To hop one party at an instance
To the next when bribed to do so

Without a thought of us voters
Who trusted put them there
In the pool to lend voices
To be heard equally fair

Long opportunistic tongues
Catched corrosive corrupted flies
Flying round them praises and songs
Gullible followers clings to political lies

You hoppers loves gerrymandering about
Pump air till the cheeks gone purple
You can proudly boast and shout
But stop cheating the people

Beware too of their followers
They too with their dubious ways
Carbon copy of their callous leaders
Gloat in glamour of their hopping days.
162 · Nov 2017
You're My Rainbow
Mohamed Nasir Nov 2017
you're
my rainbow
the red lips alight
face golden in yellow
sun green envious sight
of  you in blouse of blue on
and hair of indigo in the sky
to glow till violet day is done
for I'm in love's starry eyed
you're a gem wanderlust
I in your spectrum
of colours
162 · May 2018
Black;Haiku
Mohamed Nasir May 2018
You say crows are crass
What good comes from colour black
Oil and coal I guess.
160 · Nov 2017
Soccer
Mohamed Nasir Nov 2017
They kicked it and it hurled into the air
To where it landed they chased it there
In their merriment the boys barefoot all
In a village field eleven boys and one ball
With mind free of troubles in their stride
They put two meters apart only one side
Of two stout sticks marked as a goal post
Where jostled and hustled were the most

Till the ground hardly any grass and rough
On the objective to score goals on that half
Part of the field while on the other half more
Or less worn out like those shirts they wore
Only after school the homeworks they'd got
To do first before they go down to play if not

Adjacent stood rubber trees rows upon rows
The rooted fans watched them play like pros
If the rain pounded about an hour you'll see
The whole body shorts and shirts completely
Unrecognizable covered with sweat and mud
No proper rules shoes no referee nothing but
Enthusiasm and a sheer joy of playing soccer
Somewhere in a village in the north of Malaya

Now where the field stood are houses apartment
Blocks and shops no laughters and no merriment
Buildings made of concrete cement hard and cold
No more roughing kicking and chasing after a ball
And no rubber trees lining up as spectators antrall
Only a feeling of emptiness a place devoid of soul
160 · Nov 2017
Prisoner
Mohamed Nasir Nov 2017
I am in here within bricks
Of alphabets
Within the walls of words
Behind the bars of verses
And sentences
I imprisoned myself
To my writings
My rhyme is my crime
My readers be my judge

I am a prisoner of poetry
No one can set me free
159 · Oct 2017
Father
Mohamed Nasir Oct 2017
A
Father
Mountain
Calmly distant
Immovable majestic
Formidable available holistic
Reasonable responsible absolute romantic
154 · Apr 2018
Leaders To Lead Us.
Mohamed Nasir Apr 2018
Certain species of insects, birds
Fishes moved by instinctive action.
Animals by certain behavioral code,
By invisible rules primeval hierarchy,
By natural selection of dominant genes,
Identify and select, elect able leaders.
This is true to humans and primates.
The fittest more powerful the cleverest
Are the providers for food and protection.
The mighty conquering over the weak.
Mankind since time memorial seek
Remedial solutions for vulnerability.
They look up to leaders for leadership.

Leaders comes in all walks and sizes.
Those of esteemed virtues, acclaimed
Legendary status, heroics chisel in stones.
If tyrants unopposed, dictators idolized,
Anarchy reign from their distorted minds.
Fake leader corrupt nation kills democracy.
In God's name lift ****** sword of aggression.
Once they dictated on the throne and send
Thousands innocent sons and daughters
To castration and death. Charismatic,
Beguiled us, woo us with crafty oratory
But corrupted to the core as soon as tasted
Drank the sweetness of absolute power.

Leaders formulate laws for peace and progress,
And nation building, and not contrived laws
To suit themselves, their families and cronies.
God of all the prophets, the clergymen,
Of Kings and Queens, of dukes and Lord's
And God of the decent common man.
Send down to us blessed leaders
Who will lead by outstanding, fine example,
Who will lead us in good and trying times,
Who will not, neither womanize cheat or lies,
Who will make promises and delivers,
Who concerned about the environment,
Who weild their powers with empathy,
Who simply deserves to lead us.
154 · Dec 2017
The keeper
Mohamed Nasir Dec 2017
He was a
Keeper of a garden
Before tyres and hooves
Trampled urban life awaken
Before noisy crows on roofs
Wind played like children
Scatter leaves fly lay
Palm open

Darkness
Engines hum quieten
Night ends habits of fools
Litter bugs littering little Eden
By first light brandished tools
For grass shrubs and fern
On a street a living
He earns

Sky scrapers
Gaze down on citizen
Converging with rising sun
In vertical shadows they listen
Brooms on wheels have begun
Cleaning the street concern
As he cut shrubs grass
And fern
153 · Dec 2017
Assume
Mohamed Nasir Dec 2017
Assuming that my love is duplicated
Reciprocal to a love's assumption
Presumably love reciprocated
To be in love's presumption
When you think back, one of the most loveliest moment in love is the uncertainty of one's love. After you've finished reading, read again from bottom to top.
153 · Mar 2018
True Love
Mohamed Nasir Mar 2018
I was angry naked
I was down she above
I'm not being wicked
Not to someone I love

I was pure as milk
She bent to whisper
A voice soft as silk
Just like her nature

She shed tears to fight
She laboured for me
She pushed and cried
And she set me free

Into tumultuous rapids
I had burned my fingers
Done what God forbids
Tinge of regret lingers

I need you the most
I'm your tainted baby
I cried at night the lost
Of a true love for me.
There's no truer love than a mother's love.
151 · Jan 2018
New Year Resolution
Mohamed Nasir Jan 2018
A
year has
come a year has
gone a time to dream
castles in the air time to look
at the pages of despair promises
unrekindled like a forgotten culture
although 100% I've tried to follow
negativity in the first quarter
pessimism by half year
less to self doubt
year end
0
Not too late to write a new year resolution. Though it's half way in the first month of the year. But so hard to fulfill them so I've stopped this culture.
150 · Dec 2017
Go now, go quickly
Mohamed Nasir Dec 2017
Go now, go quickly
In ebony night hours
Quiet as the dew drip
While the neighbour's
Dog in the kernel sleep

Go now, go quickly
Silently we go unseen
Not a time to reminisce
Look back contemplate in
Moments of tranquil peace

Go now, go quickly
Go to the waiting boat
To be vagrants homeless
Flee from the war brought
Hardship grief a life loveless

Go now, go quickly
To touch distant shore
Somewhere in safe haven
Still do not run foul of the law
Still a foreigner to struggle to earn
My heart goes to those who have to flee from their homes not knowing if ever they'll return.
149 · Feb 2018
Crows
Mohamed Nasir Feb 2018
The dumps full of crows
Squawking in squalor squabbling
O'er junk they don't own.
145 · Dec 2017
Old Lady Make Over
Mohamed Nasir Dec 2017
The old lady needs a make over
She doesn't need to be saved by a Super hero
She needs her people united to avoid disaster
When the old lady will shriveled away to zero
She'd be tired with a gaunt going round her axis
And she'll fall like a gigantic boulder into the abyss

With the universe churning like an evil broth
Of assortment of planets of moons and stars
A galactic concoction of a gloomy source
She'd be depleted by calamities and wars
Annihilated by a nuclear misadventure
Being torn to shreds be ripped by nature

There'll be no spring, no summer, autumn
or winter
How can she ceased to be a dark deserted planet
If she doesn't have concerned tenants to save her
A century of torment of abuses upon her we beset
On her we populate upon her we plundered *******
With selfishness, greed and avarice, brainless myopic attitude

We need to have iron will to change rhetoric will not suffice
We must believe if we try we can reduced carbon emissions
We can desist nuclear armament let us not compromise
Replenish her trees, clear her air, clean her waters of toxic pollutants
We want solutions to revise her make her look prettier
For the sake of our next generation, lets give her a make over
145 · Dec 2017
Blue Moon
Mohamed Nasir Dec 2017
Poor blue sullen moon
As if secrets unfulfilled
Brood waiting for soon
Grievance to be healed

Like a lonely dim lamp
Of heart without a will
Of handkerchief damp
Weep in a night so still

Widow waits her hero
Poor blue moon alone
Unknown grave below
Soldier wait in forlorn
143 · Feb 2018
My Brother
Mohamed Nasir Feb 2018
My brother O my brother is very ill
I fear he'd go fear he'd tread the thin line
Of oblivion and no amount of pills
No herbs will cure he's beyond medicine

My brother O my brother I'm afraid
Afraid you'd finally take the lonely steps
Your irreversible steps of least said
You'll slip into the unknown softly lapse

You're unaware of us gathering here
Teary eyes waiting, we wait for your sake
By you warm body breathing deeper
Then you usually do I fear you'd not wake

My brother, I can only pray and hope
You'll find strength, be brave and fight on
In you there instilled the way to cope
I believe as they did what had to be done

To help you pull through in every way
And they wired you to every conceivable
Instruments, monitors, gaze everyday
While you lay like a contemplating angel

Brother, I beg you don't choose to end
Succumbed to travel the route to eternity
Going the way of our father who went
Embarked his trip of unreturned journey
My brother is seriously ill. He had a heart attack and now in hospital. Please wish him well my friends in h/p.
142 · Nov 2017
Scared Of Needles
Mohamed Nasir Nov 2017
Hold up to her eyes as if to admire
A syringe
Already I can feel the sharp point
Going into my skin
I'm scared I don't know why since
A child I fear
The dreaded needle even the idle
Ones in the drawer
You find in a box amongst buttons
And threads
She said don't worry it'll hurt a tiny
Little bit
Mother said the doctor knows what
To do so sit
Grimaced a sad tinge why needles
Made such pain
Seeing blood extracted it's something
That'll remain in my brain
I'd swear not to go there even with
Treats or threats
Shortly I've to have my normal blood
Test and screen
Oh to go through the same anxiety of
The pain unseen
Without mother's comfort but I know
She's near by my side
Looking over my shoulders to give me
A pat when I cried
There now she'd say that wasn't bad
Was it?
Agreed or not I quietly nobbed
136 · Nov 2017
Sailing
Mohamed Nasir Nov 2017
A
      sail
        catches
       the wind
       the belly
   full of air
sailing the sea you and I
136 · Dec 2017
I Regret
Mohamed Nasir Dec 2017
I really regret the things I've said
Long it dwelled bitter in my mouth
I wish you'd stay maybe I lost my head
I wasn't even thinking of going down south

I drove over to the front of your door
I saw in the window before I press the bell
Someone I knew and inside of me did gore
I wanted to tell you but afraid you'll say go to hell

Next best thing I could do is to call
I did try but sorry I couldn't finish dialling
Paced the floor walked from wall to wall
I wanted to say I'm sorry truly I'm darling

Your a woman good I know that
You're a woman I'd want to marry
I don't mind if you had grown so fat
Even a fridge would look pretty to me

I married your good friend not anyone else
Sadly you got angry and married my enemy
To get even with me and how my heart felt
I regret I didn't beg you not to be so silly.
136 · Oct 2017
Sex
Mohamed Nasir Oct 2017
***
At my age *** is not for lust
*** is like the fleeting butterfly
It touches flowers as it goes by
At my age *** does not last

At my age *** is not for lust
For this wrinkle hands do not creep
And find you while you snug in sleep
*** is for someone you trust

At my age *** is not lust
It's not always ready plug and play
Takes time for foreplay some delay
And before I get go I bust

At my age *** is not lust
It's not for the oohs and ahhhs
As this muscle is not what it was
It just won't do when I ask
134 · Nov 2017
HOPEFUL
Mohamed Nasir Nov 2017
Hope is to dream of the future
Occupy thoughts to endeavour
Prudent don't invoke evil ways
Enhance believe honesty pays
Foster your knowledge is best
Unfazed paved you for success
Let not failure be your option
One cannot hope or be hopeful without endeavour good attitude and knowledge and the will to succeed.
130 · Oct 2017
Trust The Master
Mohamed Nasir Oct 2017
You're the arrow
Master hold the bow
He'll know where you'll go
Trust in God the Master of the universe and He'll show you the way
128 · Feb 2018
Body And Mind
Mohamed Nasir Feb 2018
It doesn't know between cold and hot
Between the sweetness of sugar
And the saltiness of the salt
Being full and in hunger

And your body is unable to differentiate
One of fire one of compassionate love
The benevolence and one we hate
That of Satan and God above

And your body functional by the impulses
Instructions feeding constantly into it
By the center the base is clueless
Without which it's defeated

In tranches of our mind rages for control
Goodness and evil battle day and night
In every opportunity Satan's goal
To corrupt the mind's might

And God planted reasoning in the mind
Sent the Prophets with the holy books
As knowledge as guide to mankind
Not be misled by Satan's coax

If an egoistic mind is to be humbled
Be amphatic it should be schooled
Receptive to theologian ideals
The mind ultimately ruled
126 · Oct 2017
Why God Created This Pebble
Mohamed Nasir Oct 2017
Why God created this pebble
So smooth so small shapely thigh
Warm to my touch warmth by sunlight
And clips it with my thumb and forefinger
Flings it as hard as I could then pick another
A one thinner rounder than the one before
Skips hops and sinks not seen any more
It causes ripples as it skips and hops
The surface of the water then it drops
Silently unhurried calmly into the deep
Somewhere in the pool together they sleep
And searching for the right pebble
Is like searching for someone special
Nice looking good to hold in a certain way
But as soon as I found one I throw it away
Why did God created these pebbles
To see them skip and hop and make ripples
Seeing me having such joy of a simple action
Or to see a boy in me reliving a passion
124 · Oct 2017
Mushrooms
Mohamed Nasir Oct 2017
I saw some
mushrooms here together
growing on a log decayed by the weather
this morning they were here now reminiscences
the stools wild delicate looked like mottled houses
from afar build on the slopes on top of a hill spread
around dampened undergrowth on the ground
they settled well
ephemeral though
really I don't know
will they come home
again after the rain
on the log in the
shade  traces
of white
faces
124 · Oct 2017
Poet-tree
Mohamed Nasir Oct 2017
If I can be a
tree what kind of a tree do
I want to be I can be as useful as a
coconut tree an orange tree a banana
tree have some light refreshments at the
pant-tree perhaps join the army and be in
the infant-tree or I can study dentist-tree
carpent-tree I can paint be an artist-tree
but oh I guess you know all I want
to be is free to write and be
a poet-tree
119 · Nov 2017
Night
Mohamed Nasir Nov 2017
Night is for day to repose the female gender mate a complete opposite of what masculine day is.
Refresher of mind and body when day is work but night is restful to sleep be at ease for love and peace.
Dangerous stealth fearsome sinister foe killers rapists predators stalk and prowl be very very careful ladies!
Socializing indulging nightclubs dancing ***** theaters concerts movies sports and games at the door a goodnight kiss
Seductive passionate ***** copulation excitement the animals howl and the owls hoot the time of beasts.
The mantle of secret criminal lawless ways racketeering vices smuggling whatever deemed as illegal activities
Eerie silence darkness mysterious anxious worst nightmare a bat in the foggy night is there a taxi to take me home? Please!
The writer's friend accompanying him her in lonely wait quest for wisdom answers and inspiration in the wee hours like this.
Night for solemn devotional prayers reflections regrets repentance weep in contemplation or immersed in quite bliss.
Night is a friend or a foe, good or evil. Night is for animals insects looking for food or being food for predators. Night is God's gift to mankind to use it wisely.
115 · Oct 2017
Mother
Mohamed Nasir Oct 2017
Mother  valley  vast  experience  motivator
Exuberant  colourful  loving  benevolent
Sympathetic  lecturer  strong
  Caring   protector
What more can I say. This poem is to all the mothers in the world.
113 · Nov 2017
The Pair Of Twins
Mohamed Nasir Nov 2017
The twins much travelled pair
Travelled far and wide, every nooks
Every possible ways over this land, sea and air
Took them on flights countless times
Loving it, bored to death of the delays
Endless waiting, listened to the airport bells chimed
Took them to sea on many occasions
Tasted salty water that washed over their faces
They saw valleys, hills of waves tested their endurance
Felt the rough edges of the stones
Cobbles and rocks hurting the soles
Palaces, historical places took pictures by the tons
They had trodden ticklish snow
The soft grass crunching fallen leaves
Wondered what else to do, what else to know
Through the years our association
Remained warm and cordial, loving in fact
Till the rubber soles truly worn out by friction
Though many visits to the cobbler
It's time to change to a new pair of shoes
Many thanks for your services, it's a pleasure to be together
Somewhere a guy will wear
And take a liking to my pair of twins
And to give them a home, give love and care
112 · Apr 2018
Sonnet; Our Rose Blossoms
Mohamed Nasir Apr 2018
Our rose blossoms in the garden today,
She comes of age to lovely promises;
Knowing in time she'd be plucked away,
Let her free, leave us be in emptiness.

As if unawares she has grown matured;
Thought she's still our adolescent flower,
We poured our love to, put to school, nurtured,
Clothed, shielded within our means and power.

Her silhouette is becoming obvious,
Blossoming in foamy lace flowing gown.
As such the couple makes me so envious,
For their loving moments, I keep my frown.

On this day a father's sworn vow comes true:
To give his daughter's hand to someone new.
I wrote this poem on the eves of my daughter's wedding day.
It is never easy to lose someone you nurtured since a baby. But knowing one day a stranger will take her away when she has grown to a lovely lady.
102 · Nov 2017
The shadow
Mohamed Nasir Nov 2017
In all of us lives, like the soul, a shadow
When light shine on you it's beside you
It'll never leaves you like a good fellow
Do things you do, stick to you like glue

Don't find it in the dark as it'll withdraw
Not to a place unknown, the silhouette
Is you, can't own part or all of it by law
Of the universe, not for sale, not for let

Without a shadow of a doubt it's yours
That intergral part of you like the limbs
Light's feeder of shadow's only source
Via sun moonbeam or artificial means

The length of your shadow determined
By slanting trajectory angle of the light
For transparent bodies don't contained
Any shadows yet opaque bodies might

The rules applicable to all living things
And every non livings by the same role
Eon times since planets going in rings
In light in darkness of the deepest hole

See a boy, an eerie wall by candlelight
Casting a distorted figure as his hands
Conjuring a rabbit a dog a bird in flight
Light's back then his joy suddenly ends
101 · Oct 2017
Lonely
Mohamed Nasir Oct 2017
When I feel
Lonely so lonely
I'd be at a cemetery
I'd go to where you are
I'd be with you to whisper
I'd speak as no one's around
I'd tell things you won't frown
Pour my heart to you evermore
Until my feelings of loss no more
Till become speechless you & me
For underneath the silent earth
In peaceful bliss they'll both be
Dearly to me lay side by side
Mom & dad makes me sad
Through tortures years
Yet memories lingers
Embedded in tears
Marble & stone
I'm still alone

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