"ashraf" poems
I hear the voice of the voiceless.
I see the face of the faceless.
People say I am a raving madman
for I kiss upon the passing breeze
thinking of it as your feet.
© Ali Ashraf
Sep 29, 2018
Sep 29, 2018 at 2:16 AM UTC
Don’t let it make sense
make it all senseless
the unicorn dances
as the ***** speaks
the true journey
of human soul
and through your blood crawls.
Don’t let it take over
just make it your companion
in the solitary night
where you alone are the champion
of your soul
and ***** sings song
for you alone.
Let it wander in the streets
don’t give it a meaning
just like poetry
or like everything that exists
while ***** sings for you
***** song.
Clouds of smoke,
ashes aloof stand
within your hand
let them all dance
while you in jungle sang
***** song
don’t make sense at all.
© Ali Ashraf
Sep 29, 2018
Sep 29, 2018 at 3:25 PM UTC
there's no need to bring
the wine in goblet
for I am so much drunk
seeing those eyes
and I lost my senses
and lost my sight
all I could see is ecstasy
all I hear is ecstasy
all I could say is ecstasy
all I wear is ecstasy
and since I have worn
this love's hairshirt
I put skewers in my eyes
and put my head in dirt
yet the immense beauty
doesn't stop to overcome me
and I live in ecstasy
I breathe in ecstasy
© Ali Ashraf
Jul 11, 2019
Jul 11, 2019 at 3:55 PM UTC
fumed
fragrance far
from imagination's grasp
fills the life's empitness
flowers the spring amidst fall.
© Ali Ashraf
Nov 19, 2018
Nov 19, 2018 at 6:39 AM UTC
under one roof
were the dreams,
was the beginning
when love was in bloom
under one roof
we loved and lived,
we touched and kissed,
we laughed with kids
under one roof
but then we strayed
from the dreams we saw
the boundaries we laid
under one roof
but we try to compromise
even when love dies
and the worse times arrive
under one roof
and I may have wronged
but I still long
to have a strong bond
under one roof
so please for our family's sake
the future of kids is at skate
let us happily stay
under one roof
© Ali Ashraf
Nov 13, 2018
Nov 13, 2018 at 7:52 AM UTC
in this drunken madness
called "the world"
let's stop for a while
look into mirror
reflect upon ourselves
and ask the same old questions
what does all of this supposed to mean?
what is purpose of all this?
where did I come from?
where am I headed?
© Ali Ashraf
Oct 7, 2018
Oct 7, 2018 at 9:50 AM UTC
I kiss my heart everyday
cause you live in it
I am in love with myself
cause I am the one who loves you
nothing can take me away from you
except you when you take my breath away.
© Ali Ashraf
Dec 3, 2018
Dec 3, 2018 at 10:55 AM UTC
touch every single part of my body
set me on fire with your embrace
let me melt in your arms
let me be lost in your grace
a thousand flowers bloom in my body
with your one touch
and when you brush my hair with your fingers
my entire body yearns
for more of you
for love of you
for touch of you
you become one of me
I become one of you
we shun duality in a blink
and become drunk in each other
as this love's wine we drink
© Ali Ashraf
Dec 2, 2018
Dec 2, 2018 at 12:24 PM UTC
every single hair of my body is overcome by ecstacy
when with your tender fingers you touch me
© Ali Ashraf
Dec 4, 2018
Dec 4, 2018 at 12:07 PM UTC
The sound of that laughter
still echoes in my empty life even after
it’s been so long that it has been gone
don’t cry my poor heart
instead be brave and strong
you are the only thing I've left,
you are the only one I’ve got.
© Ali Ashraf
Oct 3, 2018
Oct 3, 2018 at 2:35 AM UTC
as we neared
to feel
the spark again
as we neared
to have
the touch again
as we neared
to witness
the ecstasy
as we neared
to set
ourselves free
we came to know
it won't be found again
what's once lost
© Ali Ashraf
Oct 6, 2018
Oct 6, 2018 at 8:49 AM UTC
Hurt me honey, hurt me.
Break me and then cut me
Cut me into cubes of misery
Pour spices and then burn me.
© Ali Ashraf
Oct 1, 2018
Oct 1, 2018 at 4:24 AM UTC
although it's been many days
since you left
but I can still smell
your sweet fragrance
roaming around me
I can still feel
your warm breath
on my skin
I can still feel
your arousing touch
and when I touch
the parts you've touched
I fall in love with myself
for I still have your presence
imprinted all over me
© Ali Ashraf
Feb 15, 2019
Feb 15, 2019 at 4:39 AM UTC
They ask me to write humorous poems
but I don’t know humour myself
just as I don’t like to believe in heaven
but I do believe in hell
and I don’t think there’s eternal bliss
for I have never witnessed it
but about eternal damnation: yes,
I carry that within my chest.
© Ali Ashraf
Sep 28, 2018
Sep 28, 2018 at 4:21 AM UTC
you are the eternal ocean
of love and mercy
with infinite streams
bursting out of you
even if you give one drop
to the entire universe
the stars would sing in joy
and every creature will dance
in everlasting ecstacy
and all I ask for is a drop
from that drop
© Ali Ashraf
Jul 30, 2019
Jul 30, 2019 at 1:00 PM UTC
Her name was Razan Ashraf Abdul Qadir al-Najjar,
From 7am till 8pm she helped the injured,
Tending to them on the fields of freedom.
This was her weapon,
Her white medical coat,
Now stained with her life’s blood.
“Her only weapon was her medical vest,”
Her Mother’s voice drowns in pain,
“She may have been small, but she was strong.”
The last time she saw her daughter,
“She stood up and smiled at me,
She flew like a bird in front of me.”
The angel of mercy,
Her goal was to save lives,
And offer relief to the wounded.
Her arms raised high to show she was unarmed,
She approached a victim lying upon the ground,
But the Sniper’s trigger only knew the language of hatred.
And a bullet blinked hard and fast,
The wrath of the single butterfly bullet was so brutal
It ruptured into three other medics.
A bullet designed to explode upon impact,
It lacerates and pulverises bone and tissue,
The Devil’s Banned Bullet.
It was a Friday,
In the month of Ramadan,
When the desert sand drank her blood.
A weeping Mother kisses a jacket
Stained with her daughter’s blood,
“I wish I could have seen her in her white wedding dress.”
Only the songs of lamentations now,
Grief shrieks through the streets without water,
And the world watches in censored silence.
Jun 4, 2018
Jun 4, 2018 at 12:15 AM UTC
why do I feel alone amidst the crowd?
when someone is talking to me
I zone out?
sometimes I cry for no reason at all
sometimes I smile after I fall
why is it all?
why do I end up hurting
everyone I love?
why do I spend my mornings
looking at sky up above?
why do I wish to fly
when I can't even crawl?
why is it all?
why do my relationships don't workout?
why do I weep without a sound?
I am not hurt yet I feel hurt
why do I always stress on ifs and buts?
why am I eager to hang up every call?
why is it all?
why was I born different than others?
why do I always hurt my mother?
why I feel so alone?
even when no one's gone
why do I wish I was never born?
© Ali Ashraf
Jan 7, 2019
Jan 7, 2019 at 12:10 PM UTC
Put the gun to your head
Listen to the silence
Don't care for heaven or hell
Have a smile on your face
Keep your tongue in its place
And have a tale to tell
Of the burning of your soul
So that the heavens shake
For time has come to make
The departure to the other side
© Ali Ashraf
Dec 28, 2018
Dec 28, 2018 at 6:18 PM UTC
You lighted up my world like a spark for a while,
how unfortunate I was I thought the day has arrived.
I mistook you for sun that was me being naive,
you burned my world and said "I was just being polite".
© Ali Ashraf
Oct 1, 2018
Oct 1, 2018 at 3:33 AM UTC
my heart is heavier than the norm
there is a thunderstorm
rising within me
of overwhelming misery
life is being ****** out of me
I no longer feel free
I feel like I am being played
by someone else
or maybe it's my own fate
or maybe some sort of curse
I am dying here
O my saviour! save me
I lost myself
somewhere along the way
would you please show me
where is my grave?
© Ali Ashraf
Dec 17, 2018
Dec 17, 2018 at 6:46 PM UTC
She lifted her brow
And the universe stood still
What a sight to see
© Ali Ashraf
Mar 27, 2019
Mar 27, 2019 at 6:20 PM UTC
as full moon shines bright
on a dark silent night
and its silver rays illuminate
the nights like days
that's how your smile
put misery to demise
and brought a glow
into my stale life
I know that those
who've been to the moon
those astronauts
spending great fortune
declared it lifeless and barren
and not so beautiful
but hearing those words I sigh
they are blinded by their rationality
moon should be seen through a poet's eye
then they'll perceive the beauty true
and see it as I saw you
but now the longing is gone
and you are here with me
I am afraid what they said was true
and true was their rationality too
it is one thing to see it from distance
it is another thing to touch it
and alas I have learned it soon
only from far looks beautiful; the moon.
© Ali Ashraf
Aug 31, 2019
Aug 31, 2019 at 5:48 PM UTC
my heart is a grave
where dead you lay
and get burned every day
by the memories of past
lay dead, my love
get burned, my love
© Ali Ashraf
Mar 27, 2019
Mar 27, 2019 at 6:10 PM UTC
I want to lose myself
in desert, in jungle,
lost in your thought
repeating your name
like an old woman
recites her rosary
until I start to lisp
and my tongue becomes tired
I want to cry
in your longing
until my throat starts to ache
and stops making sound.
Oh, my beloved,
I have never seen
such a grace
that your face holds.
Don't test me more
let us merge and be one
and become careless
about this trembling empire
called the world.
© Ali Ashraf
Oct 7, 2018
Oct 7, 2018 at 8:25 PM UTC
I have left those days behind
when instead of sun
your smile used to shine,
when you were mine
I have left those days behind.
© Ali Ashraf
Sep 29, 2018
Sep 29, 2018 at 3:58 PM UTC