Best Samarkand Poems

It was a quaint little shop
Looking strangely out of place
And the owner was a hermit
With a crinkled young old face.

He was a man of distinction
Of health hearty and hale,
Had looked a Haggis in the 
Eye and lived to tell the tale.
He had lived with a...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Nineteen

“Not that I had not spied your tulip-lipped doting jasmine airs
Nor the way your wraith-like form take me back to sumptuous fairs
Of Samarkand yore whence I dallied with dulcet-toned damsels
Just that my incognito pursuit here had little need...

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THE LAWNS OF PARADISE



Dim road in Moscow’s winter taxi.
Maybe our Uzbek driver’s memory 
Drifts  to Bukhara,Samarkand and Tashkent: 
The shifting sands  and the caravan’s load,
Blue-gold minarets, mosaic tiled rooms,
Sunny desert oases  along the Silk Road, 
Bountiful grapes, scarlet pomegranate blooms.  ...

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In the shimm’ring empty distance
Of a vast central Asian steppe,
A faint and formless shape appeared.
A soundless mass of black and brown
Rose like a djinn from out the dust
Of the long traveled Great Silk Road.

As it drew closer on its course,
Under a wide and hot noon...

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Sometimes faith lives on the edge of a knife
as Sviastoslav the Rus sacker came to know 
the Khazar Khanate knew how to cut a slight
his gilded skull stole the show,
the Vatican went from a marsh to a monopoly
and the Cathay Tang kept up migration flow,
the...

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WINTER’S    XANADU

Boreal  Venice with canals of ice
Built on  frozen rock and sand
Of the Pleasure Dome, we have  a slice.  
Spires of gilt and  bridges  a  thousand

City of gold  from  Russia’s  Kubla ...

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The bringer of rain...... 
The bringer of typhoon........ 
Eastern moon........... 
Arriving soon.............. 

The lover of symbols and numbers 
Gold too.............. 
Awaking the Princess' slumbers 
A rondezvous................ 

For, the Prince of the East 
The great wind to blow 
The power inside........ 
The heart glow,,,,,,,,,,, 
is no...

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