Dhows Poems - Poems about Dhows

...BASKETS OF SAND AND CORAL Here on my roof on Eastern pillows spread I watch the “slaves” unload the dhows- Strong black men with bulging biceps, Carrying baskets of sand and coral on their......

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...BASKETS OF SAND AND CORAL Here on my roof on Eastern pillows spread I watch the “slaves” unload the dhows- Strong black men with bulging biceps, Carrying baskets of sand and coral on their......

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...For me, Home is the wind and where it goes. Home is the misguided run among the corn rows. Home is the resting place of the stray arrows, And crooked bows. Home is the humid moo of the angr......

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...PAIR OF EGYPTIAN GEESE ON AN ENGLISH LAKE Across the icy pond through chilly haze Bewildered, but yet with a stoic mien This couple, never parted, wistful, gaze Is this the land that forebears ......

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...Sonnet for a Pair of Egyptian Geese Across the icy pond through chilly haze Bewildered but yet with a stoical bearing This couple, never parted, wistfully gaze Can this be the exotic land foreb......

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...Dar harbour full of teeming life A mass of colourful ships and boats Radiant do your waters gleam Each wave gently lapping the shore Sails fluttering in the breeze Slowly yet violently the yachts j......

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...RED SEA RECALLED Perim squints in sun without relief Through its narrow windows Towards the mirage Of Socotra’s pearled reef Red and shallow sea floor With coral islets shimmering And rainbows o......

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...Strange shadows on these coral walls stay hidden from the setting sun, yet creeping through the shafts of amber light drag behind them to the high parapet a cloak of utter darkness. Fierce defended......

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...On the sixth day of April typhoons churning and brewing came my way this year, Winds of change came to my doorstep spitting and spewing fear. They rocked me for some days as I walked my life’s calm b......

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