The Al-Andalus Quartet: Part Two
...THE AL-ANDALUS QUARTET: PART TWO
CÓRDOBA / QURTUBAH 950 AD / 339 AH
From Madinat al-Zahra
and the City of Córdoba, the roads
to the Renaissance are renamed and
traveled, patrolled and protec...
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Categories:
caliph, christian, history, islamic,
Form: Free verse
Grand Poo-Bah
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She struts out of the golden elevator
like the Grand Marshall of Macy’s Thanksgiving parade
Crystal high-heels rhythmically clicking
on the gleaming marble floor
Pompadour bouffant hair
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Categories:
caliph, character, identity, image, woman,
Form: Imagism
Notes On Tears of Jerusalem
...Notes:
I was listening to some music, by a famous singer, about this story, can any guess the song?
I find it interesting in light of what is happening now in the middle east, that
If peop...
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Categories:
caliph, history,
Form: Light Verse
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Twenty-Eight
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty-Eight
Other media meanwhile busy with who’s sleeping with whom
Relying on New-Sweep and Thyme to make loud front-page zoom
Mainly of those who leapfrog in...
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Categories:
caliph, allegory,
Form: Rubaiyat
Ousted By None But the Night
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Ousted by None but the Night
Arabic Poem by: Adnan Abu Andalus*
Translated by:
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_n_silk)
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The dusty street is bare
Darkness there and the ...
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Categories:
caliph, arabic, dark, night, sad,
Form: Prose Poetry
Bloody Muddy Monday (With Apologies To Rudyard Kipling & Alfred Tennyson)
...Assailed upon all sides; trapped, like a rat without his cheese.
Though I wore quite fancy shoes, there were no socks upon my feet,
When I fought the heathens and, met defeat, at the Pillar Of Muha...
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Categories:
caliph, parodywar, war,
Form: Iambic Pentameter