Best Sinai Poems

Behind Mount Sinai 
On the asphalted road to a seaside town there is a hole in 
the road, a nasty hole a car hitting it could have a bad puncture.
 A rocket, albeit a puny one, caused this. 
Fired by people who will not take...

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Sinai Campaign, 1967

“Operation Focus” sees Israeli jets streaking, 1
Attacking Arab fighter jets and air force bases, 2
Thus attaining dominance over Middle Eastern skies,
While IDF ground divisions launch into action. 3

Israeli tanks (Pattons, Shermans, and Centurions)
Blitzkrieg Arab defensive installations, 4
Cloud sands bellow in their wake as...

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Listen, I speak of the odyssey of Sinai,                                     ...

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Trumpets blaring, lightning flashing
Mt. Sinai smoking, thunder crashing

   Moses may have reached the highest of heights
   Yet it looks like God rigged up the first strobe light...

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Excerpts from "The Tulip of Sinai"
by Allama Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch



Withered Roses
by Allama Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

What shall I call you,
but the nightingale's desire?

The morning breeze was your nativity,
an afternoon garden, your sepulchre.

My tears welled up like dew,
till in my abandoned...

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Throw songs in dry sand
or fight  mount Washington.
Image a parrot’s tongue and
fingers leaf five at once:
that’s at least four lost
and there’s no saliva

at all

the corridor tiles a chair
wheels a common nut
to the local john
one hand over the above
since he’s naked.
Saliva? On the verge.

A sig...

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The lowest mountain in the Sinai
  a mountain cloaked in humility
unassuming, meek, of no particular prestige
  no fortress strong in times of siege

No high peak on which to stand
  no platform from which to view the sand
Little more than a glorified hill
...

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Lightning heard
  Thunder seen
Moses standing 
  In between --
 
Ram's horns blaring
  The cosmos staring  -- 

G-d's stlll small voice
  with Israel sharing...

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   At the foot of Sinai Israel encamped
     as one man with one heart
   A people once divided, revamped and unified…

   Later on, to build a Tabernacle to the Lord
     each...

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