Best Syriac Poems

Ancient tombs, of long ago times
Byblos, the walled city, fortress and shrines
Shrouded in mystery, wisdom's, and thyme
The Phoenicians sailed from this very port
Their ships full...

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The Beheading of Nînwe

Ninwe is the ancient Syriac name for Mosul
(not to be confused with the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh)

Burned books
Dead poets
Dark ages of...

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The Holy Bible is an ancient collection
Of 66 books comprised
Thirty-nine books mainly in Hebrew
The OT, by the Jewish people still prized.
The NT books were letters
Written...

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I am the wanderer
the worshipper,
the lover,
a thistle bedizened
roseate deluge
gliding across the oasis,
each of my petals
secreting scents of
scarlet seduction

I am the wanderer
the worshipper,
the lover,
my hymns
brim with...

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(I)
In the
waning luminescence
of Syriac Orthodoxy,
the Assyrian choir,
enmeshed in the
twirling maelstrom of
Aramaic incantations,
cast seismic waves
through the beleaguered
decay of
Damascan alleys

(II)
Their creed,
an unweathered monolith
mimicking the
early Church Fathers,
is the...

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