Summary

The author reflects on the power of prayer and the muse as a life's stain remover, using the metaphor of dark chocolate smeared bedsheets and the Adhan, the Islamic call to prayer.

Abstract

The author begins by setting a scene of a juice glass of red wine and a bar of dark chocolate, accompanied by the Adhan, the Islamic call to prayer. The author uses this imagery to reflect on the power of prayer and the muse as a life's stain remover, even as the dark chocolate bar breaks and smears the bedsheets. The author also expresses concern about potentially offending Muslim friends with the use of Adhan in the poem, but emphasizes that it was used with reverence. The author concludes by thanking the team at Know Thyself, Heal Thyself for the prompt and inviting others to try it out.

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The author uses the metaphor of dark chocolate smeared bedsheets to reflect on the power of prayer and the muse as a life's stain remover.
The author expresses concern about potentially offending Muslim friends with the use of Adhan in the poem, but emphasizes that it was used with reverence.
The author thanks the team at Know Thyself, Heal Thyself for the prompt and invites others to try it out.
The author uses the imagery of a juice glass of red wine and a bar of dark chocolate to set a scene and create a mood.
The author reflects on the power of prayer and the muse as a life's stain remover, even as the dark chocolate bar breaks and smears the bedsheets.
The author uses the Adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, as a source of inspiration and reflection.
The author concludes by thanking the team at Know Thyself, Heal Thyself for the prompt and inviting others to try it out.

POWER WASHING PAIN

Dark Chocolate Smeared Bedsheets

Muse as Life’s Stain Remover

A juice glass of red wine poised upon a bar of dark chocolate. Lamp light singing –

moonlit muezzin from a minaret upon a nightstand.

Hayya alas salah Come to prayer. Beseech and revere the One, the All, Song within the beams.

Sun in a night shaded sky. Moon at noon. Trust washing like lava with no cool cycle throughout byways and boulevards littered with quashed gnats

drawn to the light – too ignorant, too arrogant to keep a respectful distance until summoned.

Hayya alal falah Come to well-being, refreshment even as the dark chocolate bar breaks unprettily, smearing the bedsheets.

Trust the urging of impishly patient angels.

Assalatu khayrum minan naum Prayer is better than sleep.

Allow this Dream to be laundered.

©Jenine Bsharah Baines 2022

It all comes out in the wash, I’ve learned. Although some of life’s ‘stains’ need repeated washings, don’t they?

Yet the Muse — like Light, life force, The Beloved — infuses all. Even the mess I made last night of my bedsheets while breaking off a piece of dark chocolate.

Dark chocolate as super hero fighting free radicals. Dark chocolate — heart enlightenment, my Sage.

Prayers I haven’t inadvertently offended my Muslim friends by my quotations from Adhan. They were used with all reverence. My Lebanese DNA deepens with delight and awe hearing such Light-pouring of Song.

Thank you, team at Know Thyself, Heal Thyself — Diana C., jules, Spyder, and Ravyne Hawke — for a great prompt:

Writing Through The Pain

KTHT Challenge Prompt June 8th 2022

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Who knew “Writing Through The Pain” would lead me to dark chocolate smeared sheets? Who knew dark chocolate smeared sheets would lead me to the prompt?

Joe Merkle, Joe Luca, Jan Sebastian— wanna give the prompt a painkilling shot?

Thank you, dearest readers — my lanterns in the darkness and daylight dew. Love.

jeni

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