I searched my soul and mind
Aimlessly for a human face
All the echoes came back
The message was short and true
They all have been displaced and permanently replace
Where is the reference
Where is the broken compass
Looked for love and... – by Kahtan | 15 Views added 1 month ago
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I sit here totally lost
Simmering in thought
Watching parallel lines to end
In the end I gave up in vain
For I could not see
a coming end in the... – by Kahtan Kibasis | 12 Views added 1 year ago
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Across the Hill
The disappearing shadow
Passed in silence, no air to breath
Only few disconnected incoherent words
Passed through the cold winter air.
No home, no family and no friends,
Disposed off by time and inhumanity in Foreign land.
... – by Across the Hill | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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Thoughts
We have thoughts in our heads,
we can accommodate,
accumulate or even dissipate,
But never... – by Kahtan Kibasi | 13 Views added 2 years ago
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I do beg you to give me
The first word which comes to mind
Tomorrow I will thread them on a string
May be we
All can make them Sing.
Please do it now!
... – by Kahtan Kibasi | 10 Views added 2 years ago
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Cast your eyes to the heavens
See the new blue skies
Lend your self to the birds song
and hear.
The night sky is now so clear
New moon and stars within reach
Now me thinks
How we are all interlinked.
Mother Earth needs time to rest,
to... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 15 Views added 2 years ago
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Walked naked without my SIM card
My eyes are blind as my memory eroded
I feel lost walking and outmoded
In senseless street
my eyes are lost and overloaded
I have no connection no link
not even a cheap memory stick
... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 14 Views added 2 years ago
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Walked naked without my SIM card
My eyes are blind as my memory eroded
I feel lost walking and outmoded
In senseless street
my eyes are lost and overloaded
I have no connection no link
not even a cheap memory stick
... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 14 Views added 2 years ago
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I walked streets with no names
Exchanged false smiles
which gave me pain
Meet women in transit and plain faces
Layered by paint and false eye lashes
Strange faces lost for
destinations beyond reach
Many others sat silently with out speech
... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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Like empty shells,
We are scattered
On dangerous strange shores.
No purpose and no friends.
We are the world disposables
And dispossessed.
No rights and no passports
And no papers.
Cast outside and beyond,
The charity of the human race.... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 13 Views added 2 years ago
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I do beg you to give me
The first word which comes to mind
Tomorrow I will thread them on a string
May be we
All can make them Sing.
Please do it now!
... – by Kahtan Kibasi | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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The Binary Faces
In this mono culture we stand
Facing vacant faces
Dead eyes and bitter lips
Minds unaware of the breeze
Or the bird songs on the bare trees
How we all have ended up here
Is this total madness
Or we are... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 12 Views added 2 years ago
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Spring and Flower
I once heard a bird
sing
In a tree
But where is me
Buried under the barren
Earth, but
I will flower
Even when death
Marches over
Me
This is me
A flower
And no power outlasts... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 10 Views added 2 years ago
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Reflections
I looked into the mirror
Trying to embrace myself ,
Only sorrow whispered
You are out of space,
This is the wrong place
For such unwanted embarrassing
Embrace.
In sorrow I tuned back,
Embittered and with no where to
Turn, I... – by Kahtan Kibasi | 13 Views added 2 years ago
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My feet are made of clay
Dare I say,
One of these days
They will start walking away.
From nine months
My mum used to say.
They never stopped
To this day.
These feet are made for walking,
Even over hard London clay.
Tell me now
Shall I... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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We peeled away the layers
We constructed behind our words,
And what lives in our minds.
We are constantly unmasking
What can’t be seen.
Shadows hide, what the lips
Wouldn’t exercise.
The core colours override
What makeup, makes
Us believe... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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“Humans, Unequal!”
You may beat me,
Poison me, with your thoughts,
And lineup your thugs to shoot me,
Your tear gas would not halt me.
Your bullets will pass through me,
but will never kill me.
humiliate me, rape me,
But you shall never... – by Kahtan Kibasi | 20 Views added 2 years ago
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Give me gin
For my soul,
Lemon for my lips
And plenty of ice for
My heart,
Tonic to the dead!
The wailing and banging,
It is not a performance
You hear, it is only
The sirens in my head.
I am here hanged dead!
Inside my own head.
... – by Kahtan Kibasi | 32 Views added 2 years ago
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Fraserburgh Fog Horn
Summer noon,
Sea haze,
No distance land
No view beyond.
For the Fog Horn
Screaming messages,
Sailers of unknown faces,
Unknown distentions.
In the night darkness
Long sound of pain,
Slow, haunting,... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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Between the crashing waves
And the silent retreat
Belssfull moments to recover
And discover the beautiful peace
Thoughts may die on the beach
But in between peace and hope return
And salvage the broken beseech
... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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Between the crashing waves
And the silent retreat
Belssfull moments to recover
And discover the beautiful peace
Thoughts may die on the beach
But in between peace and hope return
And salvage the broken beseech
... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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The cold late evening breeze
Fishing boat heads to the sea
Seagulls seeking the light
For a compass
Old memories search for a
Home in my head
Nights passed
Might be by now dead
But within the me they as
The first moment the took
Their... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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Park Pathways
The urge and the afternoon sun,
Set the mind racing to the Park.
New faces, children in prams,
Others without music facing
new uncertain steps
and flying hands.
I walked on new paths.
Never before walked on... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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To sit with so many thoughts
Among those who have not
(That what they say about the trees)
To see the air and to hear the breeze
To bathe in the warm sun and look to
The heavens above and respect
The might of the trees
This is such a bless... – by Kahtan Kibasi | 13 Views added 2 years ago
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Mirrors Of Thoughts
Once a man was left lost
In a Church, in winter morn but no host
Now again a man is lost in a park
Searching for direction and thought
Forming dark shadows, in the morning light
Stories are made and webs... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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Pray tell me who is me!
Is it I who is me,
Is me who is I,
But I can only see what is within me.
I look into the sea
Shaken images
Affront me, they
Speak to me in words
Well beyond me.
I ask the human I thought next me,
Are you you... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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When I opened my mind
The atmosphere was cordial,
Words and ideas were exchanged,
At no cost, no contracts,
No obligations,
No demands.
The night was a cold carbon copy of many,
That peacefully have passed.
Then the gathering,
Without... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 14 Views added 2 years ago
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What do I want for 2021
Want to by an ordinary man,
Just a passenger on a bus,
Waiting at the bar for last orders.
Huge my children and share their laughs,
Live the joys of my granddaughters,
Take to the floor and dance with my wife.
Go on... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 12 Views added 2 years ago
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An ending for circulation
On a wet autumn morning,
My mind was wandering,
From century to century
Spinning from country to country.
Now I realise,
That I was unaware of searching
For the beginning and the diminishing
Ending of an... – by Kahtan Kibasi | 22 Views added 2 years ago
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the unmarked graves
Death has no enemies or hate
Knows no triumphs, nor defeats.
It is man who slaughters fellow men,
No regards for the causes , for shattered
Bodies or families incomplete,
but welcomes life desecrate.... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 10 Views added 2 years ago
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Chasing Thoughts
We walk down empty streets,
Searching for our miss placed thoughts
Waiting for echoes from words
We casually speak.
All we can hear is the beat,
Of our feet on cobbled stone streets.
And our souls in
Permeant retreat.
... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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Words
When thoughts evade me, chock me,
And escape me,
I search deeply for my words,
They warm me,
Engulf and hold me.
I can feel them, taste
Their sweetness,
I am part of the power
they always have held over me.
... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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I am the WAR machine
I am as old as humanity
My strength comes from
human depravity fed on vanity.
They call me names to suit
Whatever the madmen
want to pursuit.
Men are born and they die,
In honour and some times in... – by Kahtan Kibasi | 16 Views added 2 years ago
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Rivers and Borders
In the darkness of the night,
And falling snow in the morning light
Bombs like constant falling stars.
Millions displaced, homes no more,
Families shattered, divided and lost.
Their bodies carrying multiple... – by Kahtan Kibasi | 39 Views added 2 years ago
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Standing by the lake
Between his shadow
And his reflection .
Now he is in search,
For instant escape.
He needs to differentiate
Where his shadow starts
And how far is his reflection
From the bottom of the lake.
Is it only himself he can ... – by Kahtan Kibasi | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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With our thoughts we just manage
To escape from our shackles ,
But can’t justify nor understand
Why and how we got there,
and if there was a hidden purpose behind.
If we are still puzzled and unsatisfied,
Then we must search deeper in to our... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 12 Views added 2 years ago
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Death and disillusion
The morning snow brought the white coffins,
Covering the fields, the homes and the waste land.
The population gone underground.
Life at a standstill and normality ceased.
The sounds of distance... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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Ballistic Extermination
We see them, we hear them,
We bleed for their suffering and pain.
The homes are demolished, families
Uprooted and unjustly disposed.
No where to hide, no where is save!
The refuges and shelters demolished
And... – by Kahtan Kibasi | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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Love is not a cliche
Written by an unknown
On commercial greeting card
Nor plastic flowers arranged
At command
of the book of flowers display
A living love is a life lived
Generous in mind and a soul
To give and share
Care and scarify.
... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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The Refugees
We packed our faces,
In empty cases.
Bolted our lips
Blocked out our minds.
No real aim and no plan.
You do not take any belongings
From your roots, and where
You once belonged.
This will be the new start
Of life for ever... – by Kahtan Kibasi | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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We sat late in our lives
Watching madness returns
The old and the young have
Nowhere to hide
In the early hour of dawn
Man and his machines came out
To show we never change
Destruction and death are our currency
We can’t talk, we wouldn’t... – by Kahtan Kibasi | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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We seek the light
We seek not to die
We seek not to live
We have reached
Our destination
We just want to survive
And live waiting for our
lonely life to dissolve
We can no longer revolve
And silently to disappear... – by Kahtan Kibasi | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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We stood old and past our youth
Through our eyes the fear is near
The news is bleak
and hope all but disappeared
No words of comfort or tears
Can hide the hurt
and the sorrow so deep
Fragments of old memories
float a drift through our... – by Kahtan KIBASI | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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