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Another Morning Awoken by Night

I hear a first whistle of a bird just before the dance of dawn. And dew drips down The cat tongued blades of a softening sprawling lawn Humming bread truck in the distance makes its way toward a loading dock … Continue reading

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Parindey

Only a wind whines Here in my heart Where ghosts once sojourned They’ve all departed Since you arrived Since you stepped through These eyes are doors To wider shores, So green, once blue Now brown as yours. Sometimes a strangers … Continue reading

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Sated Reflections

Let’s not run from reflections Whether they be of you, or me Whether by light or mirror glow By whom its shown or who it shows Be it my darkness or flattery. To recite what is in one’s true heart … Continue reading

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Even In Shadows, Lights Work Is Never Done

The world is in a soft descent As henchmen bend away from dawn toward their cowardly silhouettes. With the pull of a trigger or slice by the blade The stage of tragedy is set Upon their chests the black stone … Continue reading

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The Waiting Rings of Time

Waiting in my memory Its gentle waves are calling me For I was cut from eroding shore To oceans edge for evermore Never a sight had crossed my eyes So vast a nexus, land and sky and sea. Transfixed so … Continue reading

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The Pebble of Niyat (Intention)

Inspiration is everywhere Like sand from the beach flying off your heals still you’ve no idea where a single grain is; It is not around you, but within, Where there is not a where. So then where are you running my friend? Your niyat … Continue reading

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How long to write a poem: Twenty Five Words Toward the Truth is…

A collection of 25 word short poemettes that were inspired by something; or they are simply petals fallen from the rose, clipped from the thorns. Sometimes 120 seconds to jot, sometimes an hour to write, sometimes years to finish… but … Continue reading

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Poverty and Pride

“Faqr Fakhri” The poverty of the heart, empathizes with the lonely, the downtrodden. For it shares what little it has, and the less it has, the more valuable what it gives becomes. I’ve only one thing, there is no other, so who … Continue reading

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What is forgotten

What is forgotten Is easily replaced All else remains, divine quiet rings of ripples last long after the Beloved’s pebble cast to vanish beneath the water line. From the still axis a deeper message heard in the silence, between the echo, … Continue reading

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I Followed a Writer Up a Tree

I followed a writer up a prodigious tree Every leaf I brushed, his poem. From the crown I scanned the pastoral a poetic landscape in repose, A resplendent chorus of Glistening verdant wisdom. O’ vast vibrato of sibilance slipping the … Continue reading

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