The Wrong Girl
...the wrong girl squeezes herself into space, your space.
with a blind spot face
and a body too stiff for free spirits
she works out a system of lies-
a dwelling for her kind.
there are things...
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Categories:
djellaba, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Transience of Experience
...What is my conception of love?
Now that I let me straw hat rest
On the rocks of Moses’ teachings
Now that I behold robins pick my seeds
What is my conception of love?
Love is an old cotton D...
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Categories:
djellaba, love, romantic, sorrow, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Six
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake- Part Six
Awake! Dour Dreamer! And draw the curtain of benumbing clouds
Fairies hover by ears to whisper mantras dispelling doubts
Already unheeding magpies cluck r...
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Categories:
djellaba, dream,
Form: Quatrain