Best Moorish Poems
Captive Bird - 12 Bars 12 Dreams
...12 BARS
Twelve brazen bars, one frozen lock!
Confined, sublime, an ancient Roc
endures inside a barren cage,
her catacomb in sundown sage.
Of former days there is no trace
except displays ......
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Categories:
moorish, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
Sestina To Spain
...Iberia, you took my breath away
with fiery gypsy spirit and romance;
with ancient Moorish history and grace;
with everything there is of you to see;
to hear and smell; to feel inside my soul.
Di......
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Categories:
moorish, me,
Form:
Sestina
Madrid: Circa 1974
...In mid-June's heat, we wait inside the bus,
and everyone has said their last goodbyes.
The Moorish boy I’ve come to know is sad.
He says he knows I never will return.
The bus pulls out (h......
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Categories:
moorish, nostalgia, travel,
Form:
Blank verse
A Sonnet On a Could-Have-Been
...Iberia, I long to breathe you in
as long ago I did. . . and then exhale
sangria nights with lace against my skin!
Sweet temptress draped in beauty, you unveil
Flamenco’s soul, exhuming history -
......
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Categories:
moorish, places,
Form:
Sonnet
Nothing Remains the Same
...Where could you be tonight, Sinatra?
Love and Marriage
Love and Marriage
A chant I heard reverberate
As far away as the length of the waves
I rode indisposed
When I was bound
To a remote island
Nam......
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Categories:
moorish, journey, loneliness, love, travel,
Form:
Free verse
El Ultimo Suspiro Del Moro
...The last sigh of the Moor, King Boabdil,
As he flees the triumphant Ferdinand,
Echoes round slopes of a mist-shrouded hill.
He looks back for the last time at the land
That he once ruled.......
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Categories:
moorish, history, how i feel,
Form:
Ottava rima
Westward, Further Out
...
"Westward, further out ..."
Dusk washes over you
warm like honey
saltry and sweet
immersed in amber tones of
apricot alerts and rose
swirling unfurling peonies
the ......
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Categories:
moorish, muse,
Form:
Narrative
History's Place
...Cro mag non man was a birth of a nation
Crete led the way for civilized creation
The Etruscans became the first Mediterranean power
Indo Europeans Settled Europe as others cower
The Aryans in In......
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Categories:
moorish, history,
Form:
Lyric
Heat
...Flies, drawn to their only sustenance, cloud around my head.
In this cloudless desert sky - blank, deep-arching cavern of thought -
Unblinking sun stares down but this fire-bird will not fly,
Has......
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Categories:
moorish, adventure, water, water,
Form:
Free verse
The Flamenco Dancer and the Bull
...The Flamenco Dancer and The Bull
The acoustics of your snuffle
is an absolution
of a descending staccato
in an E chord.
Behold, my lancing third,
an urgency to trick you
with my jalapeño-colore......
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Categories:
moorish, conflict,
Form:
Ballad
La Mezquita
...Massed crowds of all creeds jostle to enter
Inside cool air and dim light calms the soul
Eyes gaze around this spiritual centre
Built form and faith symbols create a whole
In the greatest......
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Categories:
moorish, spanish, spiritual, travel,
Form:
Sonnet
Trifles
...Custard in trifle is not bull-shark infested
Despite popular myth, ah but so easily tested
Pour jelly and sherry, sponge biscuit for bedding
Add fruits of the tropics from trees that are shedding
......
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Categories:
moorish, howl,
Form:
Carpe Diem
The Bizzarre Bazaar
...Achmed made a marvellous find
as he walked inside the Bazaar,
all kinds of mysterious treasures
deposited from near and far:
A Heart of purest Gold
nestled inside a wooden chest,
some cob......
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Categories:
moorish, fantasyheart, heart,
Form:
Rhyme
Mission San Carlos Borromeo De Carmelo
...Father Serra's choicest mission.
Late restored to prime condition.
Architecture's Moorish fashion.
Catenary
high roof, tower Spanish vision.
Awesome very.......
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Categories:
moorish, dedication,
Form:
Rhyme
Violets Quiver
...Neck pulsating, close shave shines over whiskers
Stiff collar pressure, raced anticipation simmers
Key twist intrigue spurs engine's orange rage
Needle throws redline on wide torque g......
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Categories:
moorish, adventure, africa, car, extended
Form:
Couplet