Best Souk Poems

Welcome to the market place of the best in all mankind
buy paintings of imaginings with brushstrokes of the mind.
Words of vivd colour, tapestries of rhyme are shown,
your ears filled with the consonant sound of verses being sewn.
Watch as pots of raw emotion, mixed before your...

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My heart is out for you
At the souk
 
My heart sits on the steps
Falling from sand to sea
Crying for you
At the souk

My heart whirls like a dervish
Around straggling lasses
Wending their way
To desert wells
Looking for you
At the souk

My heart flying high
With vultures circles the burnt siena...

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Within the alleyways lay death.

The burdened bureaucrats on their lunch break
lounge in front of an orange stand
ignoring the masked face within the burnoose
snaking through the stalls.

Frankincense sticks and coffee beans
purfume the tumultuous aisles
as the figure moves the belt loop
toward martyrdom.

Heavenly maidens await
this jihad ghost
while figs...

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souk cloaked in perfume—
   s m o k e sways through the hanging
                b              ...

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