Before You
...I never noticed diamonds in the sky before;
so mindless, let such moments pass me by before.
I never glanced a passing smile upon a face
of utter loveliness; it made me cry before.
I never he...
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Categories:
caravanserai, love,
Form: Ghazal
Gypsy Caravanserai
...Gypsy Caravanserai
In the scorching sun of the wild Sahara
Where the dunes shower like The Falling Niagara
And the black scorpion so eager for flesh
Roams the desert as though on African safa...
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Categories:
caravanserai, wisdom,
Form: Quintain (English)
The Long Way Home
...It was late in the balmy springtime, and I was attending a lecture,
On a topic of great interest, which was the history of architecture.
As a great lover of beauty, I admired structural geometric...
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Categories:
caravanserai, fantasy, home, magic, people,
Form: Couplet
Caravanserai Heading Toward the Levant
...a tsunami catapulted cruising skiff
skyward landing with quiet thud
across undulating infinite granular waves
formerly solid state rocks and minerals
optimism vibrant upon initial unforeseen
c...
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Categories:
caravanserai, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Blank verse
Newsroom, Late
...The clocks upon the wall are stopped,
they haven’t worked for years.
It could be any time in Tokyo,
in London, Paris or New York.
It’s late, and deadlines, met or missed,
are past. The news ...
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Categories:
caravanserai, poverty, war,
Form: Blank verse
Sun Worshippers
...The soft throaty purr
Of a returning plane
Bringing back memories
Of sun dappled waves
Washing sun drenched sand
Where bodies bronze
On a rainbow beach.
Those warm evenings
when the rich red rioja...
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Categories:
caravanserai, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Ruba'I: the Poet, the Page and the Word In Whichever Order
...Ruba’i*: The Poet, the Page and the Word in whichever Order?
The poet en face the page: unwritten words come to head
Words await tongues to be formed for poems to be read
Heavenly bodies stretch...
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Categories:
caravanserai, poetry,
Form: Quatrain
Kazakhstan On My Mind
...(Transit Lounge, Dubai International Airport, circa 2007)
He answered
that he was from far Kazakhstan,
“Exotic place,” he added,
which I know but could not pinpoint
on my mental map.
She smiled
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Categories:
caravanserai, travel,
Form: Blank verse
Something Innate Revisited
...Suddenly a moment's pause
remembered smoke upon the breeze,
enchantment, rising from its cause -
a hermit in a vale of trees ;
I wondered how my world would be
in keeping with his solar arc,
hi...
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Categories:
caravanserai, imagination, inspirational, life, mystery,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Not of Ergot (Vision)
...Am unready for the substance
of the bodhi tree,
I will drink the cactus rain
and wait for glory,
but is that water just the heat
tempting me to cross,
are those desert blossoms m...
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Categories:
caravanserai, life, love, peace, visionary,
Form: Lyric