A Petal from Every Rose, a Rose from Every Garden: Personal Poems, Direct from the Heart

By Mariam Al Qudsi

Despite the broad arrangement and various topics, Qudsis chosen poems have definitely elucidated the term a rose from every garden. Gently plucking on each feeling, she leaves readers with a mirage of petals scattered across a white canvas. While painting an image of fear yet hope, sorrow yet joy, and love, lust, and repentance, a carefully analyzed thought could lead to a splatter of color.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Nov 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543744071

Mariam Al Qudsi

Qudsi is a highly spirited and well motivated young lady, with an intake on life, much like your own! As a student, a daughter, a sister, and a friend, her observations and perspectives on society, and everyday life may leave you abashed, yet eager for more.

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My fear of sin

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Imagine a pain, bone deep inside

The feeling of loss, one cannot hide.

To be caught up in a deathly despair

Too much to fear for, too much to care.

Abiding guilt, enduring worry

Tortured by agony, anguished in a hurry.

This pain so deep, so cryptic within

Is excruciatingly wicked, a torturous sin.

I run, I hide, I cover my tears

They pour so quickly, revealing my fears.

The damage I’ve caused, the havoc about

The harm and destruction that my sins shout.

Recalling the pain, bone deep inside

that caused all this suffering, that I must abide.

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Hole in the Sky

This hole in the sky, the greys and the blues

Have been filled with daggers, unclean, not new.

They’re rusty, they’re broken they’re edged and they’re sharp…

But the skies play a music, the sound of a harp.

Because every deep wound is a cry to our lord..

Every deep cut that was pierced with a sword.

These scars that they leave, are cries for the soul…

Just like the sky… That’s been jabbed with a hole.

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Love

Love is an intention of purity for all their sakes

For ones soul and ones mistakes

Love is freedom set free in a cage

When you’re angry and furious all in a rage

Love is forgiveness for all they may be

For their wisdom in feelings is all you can see

Love is gratified justness in care

So not a predator around would touch an inch of their hair

Love is for one sake and one sake it will stay

For god is the reason every moment of each day

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A Distant Heart

Listening to a weary heart, just the same as yours…

Digging deep as far as reach, to the deepest cores.

Your hands pass the beating sounds, shaking with desire…

They burn with plead, they shake with haunt, as if caught up on fire.

You breathe, you listen, you read every last word.

You start to realize that you’re finally being heard.

Not drawings but symbols, not voices but words.

They rush to you like crowds and herds.

Seeking revenge knowledge and hate.

Using you as their own bate.

But then you see that weary heart,

The one like you that’s falling apart.

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Blind Mistakes

Blurry visions

Teary eyes

Found in darkened

Spooky lies

Unsighted