This week Poetry Thursday prompt is post about poetry.

What is poetry to me
If not that of emotions
Projected outward
Realising pent up desires
Giving light to
Blurred vision
Sharing with all
That we may walk the path
Together
So that there maybe
No contention…
With pride we tell
So all can hear our words
To touch the heart.
This is our pride…
That is what poetry is to me.

For the next few weeks, a few Poetry Thursday participants will take turns hosting the Thursday Poetry post on their blogs. This week, the host is Delia’s blog Left-Handed Trees and Other Lies: Writing from the Roots.

Picture above taken with approval from the NAFASG team.

I’ve been laid down and bed ridden since Saturday night recuperating from a bad bout of flu. As such, Ive been out of touch of happenings in the blogosphere. Since I came online Tuesday afternoon, I found that one of my best friends in the blogosphere, Janice, has had a misfortune befalling her family.

Janice’s brother was admitted to the ICU and had to undergo a lung operation. He has already been transferred to the normal ward for recuperation, but the recuperation process is going to be a long and intricate one for him.

A new Tuesday site to post poetry/prose has opened…

Introducing Writers Island.

What is Writers Island?

If you are a writer, this is a place to express yourself. Whether you write poetry, short stories, essays, or prose comment — you are invited to join in.

Come every Tuesday, create your poem, short story, essay, or prose comment — and post it on your blog. Feel free to include recordings of you reading your work — and any photo, artwork, or graphic representation you feel is relevant.

The inaugural prompt is: “My Imaginary Life”. Posting will open this Tuesday, September 11th.

For my entry into this week Sunday Scribblings, I’m writing about my Merdeka weekend, and the folly of too much partying.

This week Sunday Scribblings prompt is The End.

A delicious smell
wafting all around
Cheering revellers aloud,
by dint of their sound.
A full goat roasting
deliciously on the spit
Mouth watering,
can’t wait to take in a bite.
Children skipping jump
by bright neon lights
Banshee-like, all
caught up in the excite
Running happily, nary a care,
all a hearty,
Well, they are the raison d’etre
for the party.
All in all, a night
full of mirth and merriment
Never had I felt such glee,
such an enjoyment.
Everybody had so much fun,
let’s do it again,
It’s just sad that
it had to come to the end.

My wifey will be going back to Notts, UK in October to defend her thesis and for her final viva, as such to celebrate the end of her exhaustive research we have decided to take a break and go for a holidays to New York city before returning home to Malaysia. So once again, we turned to the internet to shop around.

One website that particularly caught our attention is Dialaflight.com. We were lucky as right now DialAFlight has some great holiday offers and cheap flights deal. When we checked the listing for flights to New York, we’re quite surprised by the amount quoted as it offered us quite a huge saving. DialAFlight offers flight to all three international airports that serviced New York, namely the JFK flights, LaGuardia flights and Newark flights.

Merdeka..
50 years have passed
50 years more will come
All expectation we’ve surpass
A great nation we’ve become
Merdeka…
Please don’t forget where our root lies
For though we’ve progressed far
Lest we become what we despise
And bleeds again from our old scars
Merdeka…
As the clock strike midnight
As the cheers fill the air
As the Jalur Gemilang take flight,
Rise up, be proud, and declare
Merdeka!
Merdeka!
Merdeka!

Happy 50th Birthday Malaysia.
Though you’ve your flaws and your foibles, you are my country.

by joezul

Here’s my entry for the final Poetry Thursday. This week prompt is “an open window.”

There is a boundary
to our emotions
for if left unchecked
won’t it overwhelm us
completely?
Who wouldn’t want to be engulfed
in love,
the euphoria
of the tenderness, the
sensation of desires
awakened
energizing, stimulating
arousing?
For all of the emotions
imprisoned within us,
the pent up anger
the repressed hatred
the tainted jealousy
the blinding faith
the guiding hope
all are
an open window
to your inner self…
your soul.
Look then
into your soul
and find
your true form.
Look then
not for perfection, but
learn to attained
a balance
a beloved form.

Happy Birthday

My virgo girl
it’s her special day
let us celebrate today ;
where’s the other friends
call them out, let
not today’s blessing
be gone, for if it’s strayed
oh what a waste it’ll be;
a day gone will forever
be lost
never will we make amend;
so let us all make delight
and wish our
special girl
A very Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Marzie,
may all your wishes come true.

A short poem for the great guys at NAFASG. This is an acrostic I’d derived from their name.

New bloggers you may be
All the more reasons you should be proud
For you’ve made your mark felt
All over the blogosphere, now!
So never forget this,
Greatness and success both will soon be yours.

Keep up the great work, guys.

check out my archives for other poems…

Marzie tagged me on this 10 Questions meme, where you have to give 5 answers to each question and then tag 5 people to keep this meme going.

Instructions: Remove the blog from the top, move all blogs up one, and then add yourself to the bottom.

Life is Murphy’s Law | Huma B | Anything Goes! | A Great Pleasure | Wishing On A Falling Star | Joe | Bokjae |Karen |Emila | Zubli