Who fight for the rights of man and they abuse them They break all the laws and pretend to protect them They eat the fish and they sell the scales a dear gem They smash and grab nations and others they condemn And they say we have made this civilization They’ve polluted the world by […]
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The Clever Finger
A to Z a distance of rounds Out within outer Layers around finger bent to thumb look through a ring back of hill and slack forest and sky a thieving sight a painting made. The bee buzzing round back bearing pollen flower suck a theft made honey. The cow thieves the grass to milk the […]
Robert Frost
Frost, I freeze with the mention of your name, Yet with the sunshine glittering from your ink; I warm up and revert to my selfsame To write of you in verse truly what I think. Oft I roam in the farm you left behind And on the old rocks you were sitting I stand, […]
Muntaha
O Child, why like a spear the air cleaving To lands unknown beyond our beloved shore Behind your mother and home why leaving Leaving the spear of distance in our core. Come back, come back to us, our darling dear Your daughter and sisters always weeping Weeping the travel wings of doubt and fear A […]
Naimy
So sad to ‘ve the gloom on a sunny day With the earth shuddering under my feet For the sage who left fore’er yesterday To join Gibran and Amin in their ‘treat He trowed that Time but the breeding of thought Inherently bred by the human mind Thereof he weaved threads of glory and wrought […]
To Dr. Nour Salman
Nour was my neighbor once upon a time She was cute intellectual and bright A lady of charm of grace lore and rhyme Who excelled the muse in their po’tiv flight ‘Twas a dear moment the moment we met Gazing at her face “good morning” she said Since that moment I forgot to forget. The […]
Lord Byron
Byron, lord of verse I prize yoru wisdom Isles of thought you have built out of the sea By which and of which you ‘ve made a kingdom Of the most efficacious poetry What po’tic stones you ‘ve carved out of the wave To have built your boulder rhymes of the sea I trow that […]
May Ziadeh
Me thinks that perfection descended from the skies That is a nymph with a twin of dark piercing eyes Paraissent le Dimanche in the French Images As the quessn thought of all bards in all languages Tell me, O tell me! by the planets that are above Who is the heavenly herald who is the […]
Roma, April 23, 1974
Why Come and Leave Why come and leave leaving a wound behind Catch collapse of your courage and believe In the natural refl’ctions of the mind Have your dreams satisfied and never grieve Nor cloak your cherished desire in the blind Passion should ne’er be yoked by oppression We are born naked and should remain […]
Cheating Time
If you can not cheat Time by your laughter Why cheat your wrinkles, dyeing your gray hair? If you be carefless to care threreafter, Who care to care about your careless care? Try talking to your shadow, the land’ll hear Your secret wafted by the air descried, So why be a yam-spinner, change, up cheer […]