Expulsion
Through the front Mr. Jonah was swallowed.
In the sea monster’s belly he wallowed.
In the muck and the gas
unhygienic, alas,
was the back door expulsion that followed.
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Categories:
expulsion, allegory, animal, fish, humor,
Form: Limerick
The Last Dance
Fields that once were ripe with crops
Now play host to blackface and cheviot
Where the children ran and played
Among the bluebell and the thistle
Now screams the wind in bansidhe wail
Looking for those who once dwelt there.
This land was once our land
Where we lived and loved
Rings now with silence
In this our last dance.
In wooden vessels on
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Categories:
expulsion, allegory, betrayal, longing,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Expulsion
A black cloud
rains selectively
on the dispossessed,
a wretched lot.
My billowing abaya
now clings to me,
revealing my form.
Their glances lacerate.
The road stretches
to the horizon,
but has swallowed
my expectations.
Palestine, 1948
First published in Blue Minaret
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Categories:
expulsion, allah, arabic, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
expulsion, sad,
Form: Haiku
Expulsion
A wish a woo it moves and glows your face
To red with cold it burns this wind and frost
As darkness drops upon the land
And with it bringing shadowed fright
You can close your eyes and think no more
It will tap you on your ears and nose
Don’t turn round and see its eyes
Like before your birth stay
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Categories:
expulsion,
Form: I do not know?
The Expulsion
Life outside the garden
Through the hand of man
Before my appointed time
I weep Psalm One thirty-nine
My rebuttal at the Gate
Yes, I am a life
Yes, I have a soul
Now I wiggle is Heaven's crib
God created my inmost being
When I was conceived in secret
I was skillfully wrought
In the lowest parts of the earth
All my days were written
For
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Categories:
expulsion, death, faith, father, children,
Form: Free verse