Some Backward Bored of Dictators (directors) of Religious Organizations

To:  TheLeaders @ Muslim Organizations

(The kind who don't represent me)

Dear bored of dictators,

Who give awards to people

"On behalf of the Muslim community"

Where the only representatives

Present at your dinner ceremonies

Are doctors rubbing suits with millionaires

I must have missed the Islamic teaching

Which says I should spend $100 for a meal

My money will make you guys rich

While in your own backyard and parking lot

There are plenty of homeless and hungry

With $100 I could feed at least

A hundred people on skid row

Soup or peanut butter sandwiches

You don't answer my letters

I don't exist for you unless you want my money

In the name of religion, are you pimping me?

If you are a beacon of spirituality

Forget about me, question is:

What would Mohammed do?

by Fazeel Azeez Chauhan

5-3-05

Anarkisst

Anarkisst

He thinks he's better

Because of some skill

As an artist

He gives birth

To beautiful concepts and kids

But doesn't complete things

And his girlfriend

Who's a doctor

So lonely

She buys everything

Nurses people's wounds

Then broadcasts them

He's irresponsible

He forgets things

Now he's grown false wings

No empathy

No loyalty

No respect

For twenty two years

Off friendship

Fazeel Azeez Chauhan

5-6-00

Aero Straight and Narrow

Aero Straight and Narrow

You're possessed

By TV's empty fantasies

Hot air is everywhere

Your ears are filled

With parasitic words

You murder time

Among friends

I'm trying to be mindful

I'm trying to be me

And not get manipulated

My words are thoughtful

Based on tests and time

You may not value them now

Ignorance is ignoring the truth

Come get me

When you get tired

Of meaningless conversations

If I'm lucky enough

To still be here

Fazeel Azeez Chauhan

5-6-00

Absorption

Absorption

Outside a closed church

Damaged by the earthquake

I pass by him

Every afternoon around 2

The air of broken dreams

The marks of spilled guts

Stain the sidewalk

Around his escaping body

Facing the wall

Asleep on a cardboard

Next to a pillow

Of strange belongings

A thousand footsteps come and go

Ten thousand cars drive by

Does anybody really see

Or worry about him?

Why don't I ever say hello

Or ask how I can help?

Fazeel Azeez Chauhan

9-16-99

447

447

'fore '47 my father was Indian

And his fathers ages before him

Now they shred us

Into a thousand tribes

And a hundred shades

Between black and white

Columbus sailed to plunder India

But found West-Indians instead

Europeans invaded Indians

In both hemispheres

And natives were made to change

Natives and Indians are all the same

We still share our roots and a name
   When the link is forged
          Our global circle will emerge
                Standing face to face
          With our commanding surrogate parents
     We will be honored
We will make it a sensible place

'fore Pakistan my father was Indian                             

And his fore fathers ages 'fore him

(by Fazeel Azeez Chauhan)

1-15-99

Thirteen Minutes of Moonset

Thirteen Minutes of Moonset

It's a mirror which reflects
the difference between wrong and right
A carbon monoxide
detector that saved my kid's life
A pendant with my name engraved
which my beloved holds on tight

A fast spinning yo-yo which turns white
A birthday cake with chocolate inside
A roundabout loop to circle my bike
It's a roll of thread to fly my kite
It's a wheel of provolone cheese
It's my motorcycle's headlight

It's a bowling ball that always gives me a strike
It's a flying saucer which turns into a floatation device
A giant bucket to paint everyone bright
A marble, a jewel, a pearl,
A frisbee my dog loves to bite

A peeled radish, an onion, a coconut,
A lychee without parasites
I dropped it and it broke
Into a thousand whipped cream pies

by Fazeel Azeez Chauhan

9-21-02

From Wayne Dyer’s book, The Power of intention...

From Wayne Dyer’s book, The Power of intention...

I want to feel good in my life also means I want to feel God in my life. 

 The principles he discusses in this book, are summarized as the Dyer Dozen:

1. Want more for others than you do for yourself – that’s how God works!

2. Think from the end. See for yourself as already having accomplished and show up in your life that which is.

3. Be an appreciator rather than a depreciator – whether you appreciate or depreciate is up to you, but in either case, that which you appreciate/depreciate is what you attract to you.

4. Know that you are an object of wellbeing.

5. Notice resistance – it is the form that is taken in all of the thoughts that say "I can’t have it. I can’t do it."

6. Contemplate yourself surrounded by the conditions which you want to create. Remember… the law of floatation was not discovered by the contemplation of the sinking of things!

7. Remember the law of allowing – follow the path of least resistance.

8. Practice radical humility. Check your ego at the door.

9. Be in a state of gratitude for all that shows up!

10. Remember, you cannot relieve a problem by condemning it. You attract what you condemn.

11. Play the match game – match your thoughts to what you want, rather than not want. Rather than say "I need to lose 20 pounds, and I can never get this weight off", say instead, "I am the perfect body weight and eat a healthy diet that allows me to maintain the healthiest frame for me."

12. Meditate!!!! Just 3 to 5 minutes each day of meditation, which is simply focused thought on your breathing, will radically change your life.