Bicentenary Poems and Prose

Who is The Bab?

Who is The Báb?

The flame that glistened bright on Sinai's crest,
The Gate1 to humanity's salvation,
The morning star shining from east to west,
And he lamp of divine revelation.
The forerunner of the Glory of God2,
He announced the Day of Resurrection:
Born Siyyid `Alí Muhammad: The Báb.

Poet's Note: ▼

         This is the sixth poem in the two-hundred I am writing to celebrate the Bicentenary of the Birth of The Bab. The form is Canopus, which is a seven line iambic pentameter poem with a rhyme scheme of ababcbc. For more information on this form see https://poetscollective.org/poetryforms/canapus/.
         Part of the inspiration for this poem was "The Bab: The Harbinger of the Most Great Light http://bahaiblog.net/2014/10/bab-harbinger-great-light/.

Footnotes
1  The Bab means Gate.
2  Baha'u'llah means the Glory of God.