Bedouin Eyes - With Apologies To Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
I bought a fine-bred stallion for a thousand dinars
And navigate the wadi by the light of the stars,
Oasis to oasis as the desert bird flies,
Enchanted by the beauty of your Bedouin eyes.
Though bandits and siroccos seek to test my resolve,
I’ll brave them all regardless of the risks they involve.
I’ve sworn an oath to face whatever
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Categories:
bedouin, arabic, beauty,
Form: Lyric
Bedouin
"Bedouin"
I stand here
holding time in my hands
for you yet you remain hidden
watching
black sands on closing air
bedouin messages written
in code invisible to most
it blooms you open
the envelope silently spits
words, they escape into you
you breathe what's left quietly in
consider the path between
dreams and reality
I hijack your solitary cells daily
you’re a Skinwalker like a Selkie
shedding freedom
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Categories:
bedouin, dark,
Form: Free verse
The Bedouin's Song
I'm just a bedouin:
I live in a tent -
Cozy an' fair
Its fabric woven
From rough goat-hair-
A shady cover
In the summer
A rain-proof shelter
In the winter
My possessions:
A single garment - a loose black robe
I call a thobe
A pair of worn out sandals
A coffee kit
And other
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Categories:
bedouin, beauty, happy, simple,
Form: Qasida
Bedouin
Beyond a sandstorm’s gritty veil,
A solitary Bedouin,
Like a ghost in a sea of dunes,
Rides slowly along in the dusk.
The singing of rababah strings
Mimic the cooling evening winds;
Tambourines and flutes sound sadly
From the
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Categories:
bedouin, change, destiny, freedom, journey,
Form: Free verse
The Nomads of the Heart
The Bedouins, refugees from other times
The places were they live are still the same
But other people founded States and took
The deserts where they roamed ,ancestral nooks.
Ther little tents of black on the hillsides
Have not changed from Mediaeval times
But now they are like flies, unwanted guests
Who will know the tremor in their breasts?
Cruel is the heart
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Categories:
bedouin, allegory, perspective, political, race,
Form: Free verse
The Bedouin
After an arduous days journey across the hot desert sands.
The Bedouin relieved the camel of its cargo with rough, calloused hands.
With routine learned from his ancestors camp was prepared for the night.
Camel tendered to, water and food consumed into the fading light.
As the Bedouin lay under covers in the comfort of his tent.
a small err-hem
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Categories:
bedouin, analogy, life,
Form: Rhyme
Bedouin: Desert Transient
Freelance wanderer carefully navigating the vast expanse
Shadow warrior doth stealthily advance without
remonstrance
With bartered lance, pawned knife; abridged parlance
Shuffling in tantric harmony o'er unforgiving terrain;
nuanced eccentric
Camel cavalcade, entrancing spectacle across glistening
sands prancing
Shrouded by the frantic wind; each, cloaked itinerant a
tenured mantic
Trading the rationed provenance of open spaces for
gratuitous providence of flowering
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Categories:
bedouin, people
Form: Enclosed Rhyme