Poem: Written In The Stone- Raeez Jacobs

We greet each other 

In the middle of the night

In the morning and our

Dreams

We recognize, acknowledge,

And embrace our passing

Then shake hands

Like two species joining

In some crazy mutation

We have no issues 

Everyday we fill each others churches

And i cry in your pews

Asking your god to give me your gaze

We greet and remember

By the start and ending of days

Our, May, June, and our September

When we christened each other

When you made me your one and only

I called you my lover

And you were also my half-brother

I still run to you for cover

And rinse my hair in your shadow

Dancing like a snake being propelled by the wind through ringlets of air

We come together

Like truth and redemption

And you set me free

So that you and I 

could be

For now and for eternity.

©RaeezJacobs. Poetry. 2013

Poem: The Holiday

The Holiday

     By Raeez jacobs 

They danced all night

Threw up their voices 

To the attic of the stars 

And stuck their desires to

Paper that they threw at the moon

Whereon it attached and so 

All their pleasures shone down on them

They felt wanted and validated

Not turning on the henchmen who had defiled them

Only just wanting them to share in the way

Natute naturalized what they had housed inside before as expedients of evil and bitterness

Now it shone  

From the moon god climbed into when he needed to afford himself the fullness of his light

Leaving his blessings behind

Now seeping into their scribbled desires

Giving each one it's coveted experience and truth,its impact, and its ferocity

They danced all night

Willing to die in the moment

Restored in faith and their most coveted desires responded to and divinely declared

They danced without warning and precision

Disobeying the physics of choreography

They broke celebrating 

A freedom they had beern kept away from

Imagining a life away from life. 

 

©RaeezJacobs. Poetry. 2013

Some dramatic photography

Poem: The War of Words

The War of Words -  Raeez Jacobs

The words flew from everywhere

Adjectives from stray storm clouds

Rattled our tops as we made our way

Hurtling from the raging water canyons

Coming down like dragons cast out of heaven

Metaphors alluding to defilement

Came up whenever it could

And juxtapositions were made

Giving the enemy just the right amount of wind to cause great paroxysms 

In a place where such sentiments weren't  even imbibed yet

Where composition of closely-related summarywas narrated 

Not where descrption was experienced, profound, and institutionalized by deplorable jargon that always begged to differ

There where all the innuendos,

 the negative antecedents,

and the hypocrisy is housed

Chaos couldn't describe

The riots surging from our minds to our hearts

And back, continuously

Like warriors stampeding close to a target they had long been waiting to assault 

We hid wherever no words manged to fall

Usually crammed together

Trying to undetstand what characteristic common amongst us could appear so grotesque to them

Why all the hate?

We slurped on each other's tears

Fearing our extinction

Recalling old times when childhood would be perfect to not being able to feel what the heart didn'tknow yet

 

But the words sauntered through gaps and crevices

On the backs of ghost snakes

Whose venom would manipulate us

To give away  ourselves

In exchange for becoming,

Not even just like others,

But becoming them to their core

What for? 

©RaeezJacobs. Poetry. 2013

Poem: Untitled-

Untitled-         Raeez Jacobs

I start speaking to myself

When the night gets born

In the ward of my mind

When the light dies in my aloe vera

I sing sweet songs 

To ease on in the dark

Thinking of how quickly

Yesterday slipped out the dawn

Thinking of my days 'til now

And feeling bleak about it

Marred by my choices 

Loving you like a child

I tell myself that I was brave

That I could mimic

Your heartbeat as it flowed

Off into a U-turn

Wherein i wound up trapped

The city's deceptive

No lights twinkling 

Over figures making shadows

No gleam in my windows

The night knows me best

And i get it worst

Hearing demons dance

By the parting of my feet

Losing touch with my lessons

Like a song extracted from its beat

The composition's now acapella 

And no matter how stellar

It leaves the heart wanting more

You're always by the door

Like a holiday

Transforming my worlds

Turning me inside out

Showing me things that take me away

Amusing me with the ways 

You're gonna make me famous one of these goddamn days

Coming out the cocoon

Of a damned cousin

Manifesting in a type of perversion

To change the lines of my reputation

You're gonna be there

When my life is read back to me

Standing beside our hedges of testimony

I didn't always believe it when you said

You're always going to be there

I lied when i told you

Yours was the only heart i dwelled in

My face they had seen

Now i think my eyes are green

Altered by vistas of obscurity

Putting out my hand into the dark

Feeling around for any signs of life

Searching for the rhythm 

In the nights' cerebrum

Singing sweet songs

And loving you like a child

Thinking of how quickly

Yesterday slipped out the dawn

My heart goes on wanting more

©RaeezJacobs. Poetry. 2013

Poem: Vacations On The Moon

Vacations On The Moon- Raeez Jacobs

Remember the weather

How the rain wet the scenery

And drenched the grass

We had planned to spread ourselves across

Remember the rainbow

Emerging in all its show

Across the patch of sky 

The sun usually employed to depart from

That day no night came

Leaving us no way of making love

Enshrouded in the uncanny glare 

Of sunshine searing our skins

Way past midnight 

Remember we awoke to a dark night

Owl eyed and mystified 

watching

The stars blink over our matutinal grogginess 

I let out a scream

You thought that you still roamed your dream

Feeling yourself to enlightenment

Remember how you held me

And how i squeezed you in the curl of my arm

You told me a story or two

Easing my agitation

And i sang you a song called

'vacations on the moon'

By which you deliquesced to 

Malt by my feet

Remember how my soul

Pulled you from liquid to bone

Reemerging in my arms

Remember all the things we learned

Observing anomalies

That for once

Had nothing to do with

You and i 

©RaeezJacobs. Poetry. 2013

Poem: In Tomorrow

In Tomorrow- Raeez Jacobs

May you never again be restless

May you never feel out of place

Out of character and so thrust into oblivion

May you be always part of the communion

Sharing in the love and the opinion

Never shall you be deceived 

Or left to reconsider your choices

Always may you be content and able

As well as virile and willing

Approaching each day like its very sunrise

So prominent and dramatic 

Without a doubt in your mind 

That here comes the day you've been living all your life to find

Fearless and pregnant with the guts of hero

Making you want to know 

the contents of tomorrow.

 ©RaeezJacobs. 2013. Poetry.