Long Andalusia Poems

Aye, what a revolution in red and orange against the
venom of society and culture
With the flowers of right palm though a gesture of dance
in fact covers her tears
A story of blue tension and deep emotion...

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THE AL-ANDALUS QUARTET: PART FOUR
ALMERÍA / UMM AL-MARIYA   2007 AD / 1427 AH 

The traveler who journeys to the City of Almería
arrives at a port where the routes of the ferries,
the whitecaps and...

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She is a widow, never wanting to marry again, never defiling her vows, 
her five children have moved to other parts of the United States;
and they seldom visit her, except on the very special season...

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The white tribe

In Europe and in other countries, with sizable white populations, the worry is, are the white becoming a minority? 
It used to be easy, the white were the English, Scottish, and, reluctantly the...

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Rise along with me like the morning sun 

At this time 
What job I got at my hand 
To rouse me like a nymph 
Placing the tip of my lips 
At the soft ear lobes...

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I lounge lazily on my deck chair 
Up high in the spacious loggia 
Loafing the time away, patient, waiting..... 
The ocean ebbs into the small bay 
As the sun sets far away over the horizon....

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I lounge lazily on my deck chair 
up high in the spacious loggia 
loafing the time away, patient, waiting..... 

The ocean ebbs into the small bay 
as the sun sets far away over the horizon....

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Larger than life, a will, governing the soul, 
With a dash of colour under the fallen rainbow,
Enjoying the beauty of randomness through
             ...

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The bus driver and a rowing boat


I remember a song “A slow boat to China”
There was a man a bus driver who took his wife on holiday to Spain
where his wife ran away with a...

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Olive and Orange 
From the years of 650 and onwards Andalusia 
Was a tolerant Arabic province, which even tolerated
the Jewish tradesmen pushing their handcarts on
cobble stones and the Christians with their infernal
 bells ringing on...

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Flowered patios,
admired for their charm,
Andalusian patios lovingly cared for.
As new-born babies 
that Andalusian women take care of 
with gentleness, dedicating
their time with the same devotion
to as a baby who needs attention.

Beauty with big eyes
that shines...

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Un día voy a ir a ti, Córdoba
pasearé por las antiguas calles empedradas
y escucharé los ecos de hace muchos siglos,
de cuando los musulmanes gobernaron  Andalusia

Veré las coloridas túnicas que fluyen
blancas contrastando con el sol...

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Listen, 
 can you hear it
 your taste buds losing interest?
 
A buzzing in the air
 black-winged hoverers
flit and fly across the kitchenette
 drawn in by the smell of tantalizing flavors.

Too hot for ovens to...

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Birds,unlike humans, can  fly across the barriers

Avoid the checkpoints,need no identity papers, permits

Or gold stars.

Brothers,why were you separated?

Why could Palestine not be left as one

where ,as in Andalusia before the madness

of Inquisition,you lived together...

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Rolling down the contours of Iberian Peninsula
the picturesque highlands of lofty Andalusia
fringe the landscape of the great plain of Spain,
cradling the ancient cities of Madrid and Segovia.

In the frenzy arena horny bull charges as if...

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Church Bells 
Once I lived in a charming English village, near 
an ancient church, every Sunday morning 
on my only day off, the bloody bells chimed.
Thought I saw a woman cycling to mass in 
the...

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The cream of the land has been 
slain 
And the jewels flushed in the 
drain

Tell it not in Abeokuta 
Neither publish it in Uromi 
Lest the Ancestors hear 
and be dumb 
Lest the claws of...

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