Mother Ghazal Poems

           My Mother Land

        The place where I...

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after Christina Rosetti


Pour leaves into a gossamer bag, the kettle boils
in the bleak midwinter

the  orange-brown water  steams your mug and glasses
watching snow fall...

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Please change the subsequent pronouns if you are praying this alone, in groups or in the Church, thank you)
 
Lord, Father Christ, please have mercy...

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Oh, Triple Androgynous Name remembered by no name 
I am now a shooting star falling to Earth in shame 

Mother-Father of every single mother and...

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The dreams sure were dreamt— by one alone,
Not by both and sure failed to reach peak.

Let’s now build together our dream house—
Bring own base, cement,...

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A bit of dome, all I won’t give,
Take whole of house, home I won’t give.

All roads might go to mighty Rome,
All of Rome still not...

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After the Sunday service, searching back to her
For a date. He will soon be walking back to her.

Bottle rockets popping over the Sacre Coeur.
She suddenly...

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Life is a great dream         
What a first rate dream      

 

Sleep...

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I'm a pearl in a seashell, but for the world, nothing 
Just like those stars, which at a full-moon night, are nothing.

As wind deceives a...

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Memories' claws catch weakness, sore substitutes for truth
Mind's future sambas hipswung with anticipated brew


Mother bird waits for non viable form to peck forth
- Maybe deserves...

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Strange Currents
by Amir Khusrow
loose translation by Michael R. Burch 

O Khusrow, the river of love
creates strange currents—
the one who would surface invariably drowns,
while the one...

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Wading in the river, shining hook wrapped, the flyfisherman casts
but the fish just stare at his lure, for a fly does not enter a closed...

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Reading in bed, she has a drink, and the ripple widens.
A drop falls in the kitchen sink, and the ripple widens.

Supported, a little girl in...

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Friends let us not kill each other, be kind  
For a long time we are in danger, be kind

Enough, enough loosing humanity in enmity
The...

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Midnight breezes echo a snuffed demise    from this lament ,
While time hangs amidst moments on pale skies from this lament.

A  lone...

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