Allusion Abc Poems

Latakia, Syria

My ship berthed there when Bashar al-Assad, the vile 
When a dictator was in power, I found a peaceful  town
Dressed in a European manner, there...

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The Cobwebs of Dreams

It was a sunny day, perhaps to clear
I thought
Mother sat in the kitchen sunlight, making her white hair into a halo
I asked...

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The Cloud of Hell
It was a perfect day, cobalt sky and azure, glittering sea
When a stygian cloud came from the east, the Lord of Wars
spat...

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Haiku
A season is over
Golden leaves softly fall
The breeze is absent 

Bushes have blooms
Intact but covered in dust
The town waits for storm.

Indoor plants sag to
Sorrowful for...

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The Jewish couple

I have written about this before, but somehow
 didn't  get it right 
My perceived brusqueness made them think of Cracow,
they had fled, their...

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A Handcart and a Ring 
 
A man I knew had a handcart and became self-employed
I often saw him in the town with a load of parcels...

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Come  Home 


I dislike Israel, but I accepted her as a historic
happening and a place where Jewish culture
can flourish undisturbed by foreign culture, and
thus can...

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Cantata
He stood there on a plateau that only had a tree,
And since he had appeared from nowhere, there
Was there no past to bother with?
He sat...

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The eternal seaman

Coming from the sea, he stayed at a B/B hotel Churchill 
 near the railway station in Liverpool, a handy place for working women
to...

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Campo Alegre re-printed

Under the houses on stilt
That has no sewers
And built for whores
To service sailors in Curacao
A barren island
In the Caribbean Sea
Pigs live under houses
Grew...

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The blues affair

I met her where the light was weakening
an enduring twilight had settled on what
was re-lived in the memory of summer
moving out of the...

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When the ancient goes wild 
Our hotel in Porto was at the highest point
although we had been promised a room downtown we
didn’t have to walk so...

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Love, they say 


When I was fifty-two, I fell in love and that
was hard; I lost my sanity for the sake of love
I had been married...

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Agent Patrick Chaves 

in the beginning of this month, I was contacted by 
family relation telling me of a quick way to make 
some extra...

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The secret hint

I was watching a TV program about Hercules Poirot
the heroine in the plot had no **** and wore an evening dress with aplomb
She...

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